Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] mean [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've do It 's like it 's like practising for football I mean you might be the best footballer in the world and you say you know they say well you 've just won the cup say |
| 2 | See , my idea originally was that cos it comes back from when I used to go in the in the Blue Anchor in Lancaster after work I mean we had everybody in there ! |
| 3 | I ca n't see , I mean , of course I mean she can take him to court over the money |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I mean it . |
| 5 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 6 | of course I mean it 'll be a little different this week , wo n't it ? |
| 7 | Well I 've got quite a lot of experience I mean I 've |
| 8 | There 's been no government erm We 're now what happens is every now and then like now we just simply run out of money I mean we 've simply run out of money . |
| 9 | Erm and that type of stand I mean it that in a very restricted area have n't you |
| 10 | and physics and all that sort of stuff I mean I |
| 11 | Any way that you can think of that will help to get these axes right because most of the time it 's going to be this sort of thing I mean you said , Do you want me to work it you know use the graph or just work it out from this . |
| 12 | time of year I mean he you just . |
| 13 | I mean the strain on families must be enormous in a strike situation and for both people in the family to be having an input and feeling that they 're getting some sort of feedback from the situation that it 's not just despair must surely you know be you know there 's that side to it and then erm from the women 's point of view I mean we have like I said become one big family in a way you know and the social side of the strike in a way you know people are sa you know going out more maybe and certainly |
| 14 | Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time . |
| 15 | well no , I 'm only wearing me bloody coat and the skirt and er grey tights that 's all , er whatever up top I mean I hope that , have a look , I hope it 's gon na be a better bus anyway this week |
| 16 | you know what he said the first time we went into sociology I mean I feel a bit like you must of felt then |
| 17 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 18 | So in fact I mean we 'll be lucky if we clear a profit on it . |
| 19 | In fact I mean you can buy or I mean you 've got the record of erm how far back , you could invite all the existing , living parish councillors , so far as we could , and , and that , that would be , I think that would be fascinating . |
| 20 | Tremendous changes over the years , in fact I mean you can remember Overnight , , or you know before , before overnight actually existed . |
| 21 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 22 | Er now , on another topic , I will go back to the idea of regulation later , you 'll see that life expectancy is obviously important and er when you 're looking at retirement I mean it 's always been described as the longest holiday of your life and it certainly is that , and life expectancy is rising all the time , these figures have actually been superseded . |
| 23 | And they come in , I mean he skids in the hall at night I mean it 's my fault I threw the rubber ring towards the kitchen down the hall he sort of skidded before he got there and there was a , and he must of had mud er , you know like like he had |
| 24 | Looks good business at Villa I mean he 's an exciting player but two million pounds that 's a huge fee . |