Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] mean in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretary of State cos I mean in in the wrong hands their worth each form 's worth two thousand and |
| 2 | ‘ If you mean in the raft , you may not , ’ Silas drawled . |
| 3 | In 1951 the words ‘ I 'm all right , Jack ’ still meant , as they meant in the cruder wartime version , a totally reprehensible attitude towards Jack , whom you were supposed to care about . |
| 4 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 5 | To do this is not easy , for it means in turn abandoning many of the systems of personnel management , and taking far more responsibility for encouraging and supporting difference . |