Example sentences of "[pron] mean [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A little tip for you I mean one of the things I do when I 'm writing a training manual or something like that , I will actually write my open questions in really bold letters on the script . |
| 32 | I mean one of the problems and also perhaps losing benefit of housing . |
| 33 | Well yeah I mean one by one , maybe if we can hit the Herald and erm The Times and |
| 34 | When nobody else is here but I mean one definition of that is that you 're asleep yeah . |
| 35 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
| 36 | We do n't name him but whoever is in a particular spot should be responsible for a certain area , which in in fundamentally it is done that in quite a number of instances but I mean one thing that springs to mind is that a lady shall clear the ladies toilets . |
| 37 | I mean I must be honest , I did not feel that frightened erm it was n't an acute pain that that I mean I mean one of the things that one has to realize , you can become a heart attack bore . |
| 38 | And if er , I mean one of these girls is worth maybe three others , you know , they 're all erm , they 'll , and still clear the shopfloor , get them downstairs , and sweep up for you in say , four hours , and one person does that while the rest . |
| 39 | Well , in the in the question of I M R O as far as it 's erm occupational pension scheme members are concerned , er there 's no there 's no compensation responsibility and I think that that means that you get no , no whistle blowing and in I mean there 's , we 've got , I mean one of the points that we , we heard of just last evening was that one of the of the banks involved ended up er in its arrangements with Maxwell of asking for a hundred and sixty per cent of shares for every hundred per cent of loans that it made to Maxwell . |
| 40 | I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know . |
| 41 | They , they would love him I mean one of them it was annoying really cos Terry 's just not pulling his weight . |
| 42 | I nearly forgot you , I mean one week he rang me and had it pinched out of his car |
| 43 | I mean one Friday I come , I left here about ten to one I went in the house and I went to bed and I was starving and Gordon says oh I 'm hungry I , so I went out straight down the stairs , come back up with a bloody big tray cups of teas now when I , after drinking down here , pasties now what I 'd taken home what I did n't sell here , crisps , sandwiches and a after I 'd ate it I felt so guilty . |
| 44 | yeah I mean one point six millimetres something like |
| 45 | I mean one one day we |
| 46 | Derby , but I mean one of the any aggro , the stall any hassle is in Covent Garden , which is a tourist place that was between two . |
| 47 | yeah , well yeah I mean one of the blokes I he said just over a pair of |
| 48 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 49 | Well it was newish but er I mean one of the couriers mentioned it to us and I said well I du n no whether you want to pass the information on , whether you know , maybe you do n't . |
| 50 | I mean one lady was found wandering in the street ! |
| 51 | No but just one tape see , I mean one and then when you 're older you 'll have a tape of what you used to sound like . |
| 52 | I mean one hundred and fifty . |
| 53 | I mean one minute she says Sabrina 's er a bitch and the next minute she wants to sit next to her . |
| 54 | Living in California he would be , but I mean one of his books is about , erm or has , as one very important element , a forest fire . |
| 55 | Well I mean one of the women I spoke to that I mentioned in that piece felt strongly that schools were laying too much on children in terms of taking responsibility for how the world is , and she erm mentioned in particular erm the kind of ecological issues that lots of schools and teachers are taking up now and erm children are becoming involved in projects for , you know , recycle this that and the other and there 's a book , is n't there , ‘ The Children 's Green Guide ’ or something . |
| 56 | Yes , but one I mean one of the things that I think is often smuggled in to discussions of class is value judgements erm along the lines of one class is better than another . |
| 57 | You know the old adage that , I mean one of the reasons is it 's so much easier to come up with a scandal , to come with a rats in the basement or something like that and intrigue people , than it is to come up with some , the positive angles . |
| 58 | And a lot of them have emotional problems ; I mean one of the girls I talked to here who 's dealing with calls says it 's difficult , you get some people who get very angry with you because you do n't have news for them . |
| 59 | By which I mean two things . |
| 60 | Yeah I mean two things . |