Example sentences of "mean [pron] can [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know them , I mean I can sit and have a conversation , I know their hobbies and what have you , |
| 2 | So erm I I , I mean I can understand that we have a a specific need to er address the member of who signs what cheques but I think the matter of cash is covered by two , the chief executive is answerable to a board for financial matters . |
| 3 | but I mean I can see that for he 's got , he 's doing exactly the same , literally a capital K in the middle of joined writing |
| 4 | I mean I can see that a lot of people I mean I think that we should thank our men and women who were in the Gulf , of course we should , erm I 'm questioning only the way that we 've chosen to do it , by a victory parade . |
| 5 | Well I do n't think actually , I mean I can remember and I do n't quite understand what 's going on here , keeps swapping and changing and I do n't understand it . |
| 6 | And you do n't need to mark the one twenty on I mean you can do if you like . |
| 7 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I mean we can wait but they wo n't mind which is which . |
| 10 | and that was what , I mean if they had erm decided to take more te point of view and to increase production through improved methods of farming and so on , that prob erm I mean we can see that that would 've created higher yields and that , because we 've assessed the situation now |
| 11 | Yes I mean we can understand that if you 're gon na get a cheaper ticket you 'll have to book well ahead and obviously they 've got to try and ease the the overcrowding on some trains . |
| 12 | I mean they can wear if you think about it they wear suits in the middle of summer where we 're into sleeveless linen dresses . |
| 13 | But that shirt 's okay cos it , I mean he can wear that to school ca n't he ? |
| 14 | no , but , I mean our can read and he could read when he left the first class , he did really well |