Example sentences of "[pron] mean [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That 's not what I mean at all . |
| 32 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 33 | I mean we 've , I mean at that point you 've got that was the point where you 've got the massive United States aid coming in erm you , you 've got erm United States equipping China with all enormous fire power , sending tanks in etcetera , I mean this was the beginning of , of the realization of the United States that , that the communists were a threat and they did n't like it and they , they were putting massive ai aid erm and , and that there was all that United States war machine erm |
| 34 | I mean at that point I would either do that , you know er change it or that would have been it |
| 35 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 36 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 37 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 38 | 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 ! |
| 39 | See what I mean about that skirt ? |
| 40 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 41 | That 's what I mean about this bloody thing , that it does n't it straighten it . |
| 42 | 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 |
| 43 | " I mean about Apache Indians and all . " |
| 44 | And where the beer did agree eventually , I mean under slight pressure . |
| 45 | ‘ I mean afore that ? ’ |
| 46 | No no no I mean since this . |
| 47 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Yeah i it 's n th that door looks miles away but I mean in actual fact it 's not very far , ever such a strange |
| 50 | Look I mean in actual fact , it 's probably well it should n't be |
| 51 | ‘ Those trees were superb ; there was drama in each figure I was going to say , but I mean in each tree … . |
| 52 | Or or the rest I mean in general |
| 53 | Oh she has enough certificates to of gone to teachers ' training college , now that , I always feel although I think she 's quite happy now , but for myself , for myself and I 'm always er tempted by the fact that they always have twelve weeks ' holiday you know , I mean in one go the teachers |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | I mean in other words we 'll now have a proper strategy the Vale of the White Horse , which was always an area of the county where the County Council services to the elderly was poorer than elsewhere . |
| 56 | I mean it 's , I mean er , we still consider , I mean in many ways it 's , it 's Breckland but particularly Norfolk we want to particularly their members we want to get , we want to get to , I mean er , you 'll need obviously great support authority District Council but er , er I will , I will consider that , but I do n't really think it 's necessary for that |
| 57 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 58 | I mean in any case ten minutes . |
| 59 | Erm or the the Y against I mean in this one if you You could plot that against X which is the normal way . |
| 60 | I , I mean in some respects this , this , this is very good Mary . |