Example sentences of "mean [conj] [pron] [vb base] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 2 | I mean where you buy the , the thing from you 'd think the seldom , the spares as you want them about every four months |
| 3 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 4 | We say we are thirsty when we mean that we fancy a glass of wine , a pint of beer , a gin and tonic or a shot of whisky — the pleasure of naming our poison — at the end of a busy day or tiresome week . |
| 5 | By that I mean that I see the New English Art Club as standing for a cultured , civilised , very English approach to art — a kind of visual stability . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean that you know the contents of his will ? ’ |
| 7 | RNIB , I mean if we want a logo it should be an audio description logo for the country |
| 8 | I mean if you bank every day it costs you a fortune . |
| 9 | I mean if you fill a , fill a tank with water that 's gon na sink and now the steam hopper had a strong back on |
| 10 | er they say , and if then they 've made a mistake you have done what you are told , I mean if you take a big ladder and it 's only a wee fire , a small car bump and then there is a big fire later on , somewhere else and they have n't got their , the right appliances because you 're at that place with the wrong stuff , then that would cause problems would n't it ? |
| 11 | See , see , I mean if you take a , if you take a , look at it at a point of view of |
| 12 | I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today . |
| 13 | I mean if you take the number of people we 've had that 's had to get babysitters and that |
| 14 | which is probably very tried , but I mean if you imagine the whole of Britain with no museums , no concerts , no ballet and no opera none of these things , then you would be a very impoverished society . |
| 15 | I also think , on er sort of workers ' rights , I mean if you know the person that 's made it , like a local butcher , I would trust more to make I would trust more than . |
| 16 | you 're not fucking throwing the plane out of control or the elevator would rip off or something , I mean if you get the same sort of thing probably would only have to do that , break the surface a little bit . |
| 17 | I mean if you have a good hour in there you 're not gon na get in smack on ten be there about twenty past ten , probably get in about twenty to eleven that 's just right . |
| 18 | Yeah , so I mean if you have a win yeah , and a woman that sat on the next table to me . |
| 19 | I mean if you have a lot of people that come round you 're gon na tell them that you 're doing it , they might , I do n't |
| 20 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 21 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 22 | I mean if you buy a secondhand car and you get a warranty with it , you think it 's covered by the warranty . |
| 23 | But on a Sunday erm the restaurant is open from twelve o'clock so what you 've got to I mean if you want a table for say , four or six of you |
| 24 | You will see what I mean if you read a very strange piece called ‘ A Free Man 's Worship ’ , which he wrote in nineteen-hundred and three . |
| 25 | I mean if you carry a bag somebody will mug you and pinch it off you like |
| 26 | I mean unless they get a temp from an agency they gon na want somebody are n't they ? |
| 27 | I 've never been at it myself , like , but I mean but I mean the and all is , well there 's all the stuff on it anyway . |
| 28 | The aim of this chapter is to question the subject matter that they so confidently explored , for it is by no means clear what we mean when we raise the prospect of ‘ a history of sexuality ’ . |
| 29 | It is a phrase that underlies nearly all discussions on public policy , political action , social value and individual interest , yet there is no agreement as to what we mean when we use the term . |
| 30 | But that is mostly not what they mean when they use the word stress . |