Example sentences of "[pron] mean [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , I mean for twenty thousand what could you have ? , you could have a Calibre could n't ya for twenty thousand |
| 2 | I mean with all that stuff about little coteries , and cosy dinner-parties , and so on … ’ |
| 3 | Cos he 's bound , I mean with all that mud and everything , I mean there 's lots of sheep droppings and god knows what up there is n't there ? |
| 4 | Yeah well I mean with all this noise and that you do n't feel like doing much do you ? |
| 5 | I mean at six thirty . |
| 6 | But I mean as any adoptive parent here will tell you , the strains when you adopt a child , or adopt children , very disturbed children are much worse ! |
| 7 | That 's what I mean about this bloody thing , that it does n't it straighten it . |
| 8 | I mean that 's what I mean about this hundred days , we 've been at war , and I think the job of the press , I mean is not |
| 9 | And I mean in nineteen sixty five such a job would cost te about eleven to fifteen pounds which was an anas astronomical amount of money in those days , simply because the man who had the firm had an A licence , or four or five of them , and he was in a mon a monopolistic position you see . |
| 10 | But that was terribly expensive , terribly expensive , I mean in eighteen ninety-nine , they were six pounds and a farm labourer then was getting seventeen shillings . |
| 11 | There is , regretfully , no space in this article to spell out in greater detail just what I mean by these dynamic explanatory constructs . |
| 12 | I mean at the moment , I mean from that one week |
| 13 | When you 're working and you 're busy and you 've got to do it I mean like this last week because of playing golf mainly , and putting weedkiller down , the grass is this high and |
| 14 | I mean after all these years here I mean you ca n't well that 's |
| 15 | And let me explain what I meant by that silly passage in my last letter , about expensively dressed girls . |
| 16 | Er I not really sure it depends on what you mean in that particular context . |
| 17 | ‘ Just what do you mean by that snide remark ? ’ she demanded coldly . |
| 18 | Now , what do you mean by full unbiased impression about the whole story ? |
| 19 | is oh do you mean like one six ? |
| 20 | Do you mean like that working-class culture thing ? |
| 21 | 3 These local resources as part of packages emphasise what we mean by joint working . |
| 22 | At the most general conceptual level of what we mean by good neighbouring , the ideas are tapping very thorny problems of the sources of social cohesion and solidarity . |
| 23 | We mean by this that alien or foreign ways of life are not only treated as odd , they are also very threatening , especially when actually present in the country . |
| 24 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 25 | At least , most of the Board were and the rest of us were persuaded that it would be no bad thing , without , I confess , being precisely clear what we meant by that blessed word . |
| 26 | And what did he mean by that last sentence ? |
| 27 | What did he mean by that sombre ‘ quite ’ ? |
| 28 | She still did n't understand what he meant by all that , no matter how much he explained . |
| 29 | She wondered what he meant by that last remark about his brother , so quickly bitten off , but she knew better than to ask . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's all right , then , ’ she answered weakly , not daring to ask what he meant by this last cryptic announcement . |