Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean by all means talk , Southend is the latest one over there so |
| 2 | What I mean by that is that if there are eight or ten things running across the spectrum from left to right , they 're all at specific points , and that way you can do a more sophisticated job of layering , while still retaining a certain delicacy . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know what I mean by that . |
| 4 | And what I mean by that is for example er a pan like that we can buy for a quid which happens to be a . |
| 5 | What I mean by that is er try to have a good look at what you 've chosen before you walk out the shop . |
| 6 | I mean by that not |
| 7 | Fully-fashioned knitwear , now I think you all know what I mean by that then . |
| 8 | And let me show you what I mean by that . |
| 9 | It 's it 's on the basis that any employer has a duty of care to employees and what I mean by that is that er an employer has a responsibility to not work employers er er employees under conditions that that are known to be unsafe . |
| 10 | Now what I mean by that , is that every , you know , twenty working day month , I know from analysing my time , that I lose two days , two full days to major interruptions . |
| 11 | Do you know what I mean by that ? |
| 12 | You understand what I mean by that ? |
| 13 | What I mean by that is , when you get back to your branches , you will go onto further training programmes in branch training , developing your practice training , so each branch will vary how they sort of co-ordinate this , but let's say , we 've been in a few months now , and twice a week we 've got to go in for training . |
| 14 | What I mean by that is , when I ring up Richard , we must give an alternative close , must n't we . |
| 15 | What I mean by these categories differs quite substantially from what other well-known anthropologists mean . |
| 16 | There is , regretfully , no space in this article to spell out in greater detail just what I mean by these dynamic explanatory constructs . |
| 17 | I mean by this not merely that it can be represented mathematically , but that , such is its concern with the quantitative aspects of reality that it consigns all the qualitative content in our conception of the world to the realm of conscious experience . |
| 18 | I mean by this attitudes of wonder , reverence and awe , as we contemplate the beauty of the universe and note the fragility of its life-systems . |
| 19 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 20 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 21 | And er the diesel pumps were n't on and er there was a couple of guys putting on breathing apparatus and trying to get in to restart them , but I mean by this stage the smoke was so thick they could n't even find where the pumps were . |
| 22 | What I mean by this is the prevalence of the assumption that religion does not matter because it is not true — it is an illusion . |
| 23 | Because that 's really erm a part of what I mean by this criterion . |
| 24 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 25 | Yeah but I got by these people who 've been to Jamaica , says that he gi if you give five pound tip for there , there what 's erm they do n't like it , it 's not enough , they wo n't speak to you no more . |
| 26 | I hoped , though , that you would n't mind if I stopped by this morning ? |
| 27 | It follows that I am not using language properly if I say that you ought to do something , unless I hold by some universal principle from which this prescription follows and all other implications of which I would be prepared to endorse , most notably those which would prescribe under certain circumstances that I do something . |
| 28 | I imagine by that you mean the new censorship categories from the British Board of Film Censors ? |
| 29 | Why am I moved by such simple things ? |
| 30 | I stand by that decision . ’ |