Example sentences of "[pron] mean [pers pn] 's [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's blatantly taking the piss , let's be honest , I mean , I ca n't muck around , I mean it 's blatantly taking the piss is n't it ? |
| 2 | I mean it 's just getting worse and worse and worse . |
| 3 | I am not here to discuss that now , but I mean it 's just to make sure that you know that things are n't planned for five years or ten years , but possibly for a lot longer than that . |
| 4 | It adds weight , I mean it 's just to make the letters bigger . |
| 5 | so , if , if , if they 're all four of them coming er and she says about going in for a meal I shall say oh well if you feel like it go and do that then and come for your tea I mean it 's just putting them round table is n't it ? |
| 6 | So , you know what these girls are , they sort of I personally , you know , as it were a trained scientist , a certified chemist who you tend to , to take a , a slightly er diagnostic view of things , but that 's not quite right , but you take a slightly objective view of things and I , I , I , I 've been thinking to myself ah it is rotten unfair on girls because sometimes sort of between about fifteen and twenty five , but now I suppose because they 're all growing up so much earlier it 's between ten and twenty , they have a pretty monumental change , they , and , and it 's not a bundle of laughs but they can talk to their friends , they can see their friends and talk to their mothers , they can get a vague way it 's gon na affect them and they can you know , sort of , let's say twenty , twenty five settle into a routine which has variations every , during the four weeks and they vary between individuals , I mean it 's well known |
| 7 | Well the thing is , I mean it 's like buying it as you 're going ahead and just totally re-tiling it and going round . |
| 8 | I mean it 's like imagining one without the wheel or something . |
| 9 | I mean every Sunday , we have a , a Sunday dinner , I mean it 's usually chicken , cos it 's the cheapest one there is , but I mean we still have a Sunday dinner , we have fresh veg and everything . |
| 10 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 11 | So that 's well , before we can go in , launch into this , I mean it 's often said that erm , er , well , one of the major reasons why agricultural commodity trade has n't been included in GATT , like virtually every other er , product has been , is because governments are saying , look this is a domestic policy , it 's got nothing to do with international trade , we 're supporting our farmers , it 's a domestic policy . |
| 12 | I mean it 's actually giving light out , but er there 's one over there if anybody |
| 13 | I mean he 's even marked it look . |
| 14 | No , but er I mean he 's even marrying into trouble . |
| 15 | Well me dad 's eighty two , I mean he 's hardly gon na go out to work is he ? |
| 16 | I mean he 's actually encouraged them , he 's said , Yes okay fine , go ahead , let's sort it out , let's do something about it . |
| 17 | I mean he 's never gon na be a when he 's obviously another Bright . |
| 18 | It 's like erm that leisure , I mean he 's obviously learned his lesson when he did that competition that time did n't he and he , he went in and he passed did n't he ? |
| 19 | I mean he 's fairly lacking in confidence and whatever ? |
| 20 | Come on look at her yeah , she 's got a really good figure , she 's not ugly she 's got a good er I mean she 's really tanned and that , they like that and she 's really cocky is n't she and she wo n't take any shit from anyone |
| 21 | She lets me take time off , I mean she 's really understanding . |
| 22 | I mean she 's always wearing heels |
| 23 | I mean she 's always saying she 's always saying how you know she , oh my kids this , my kids that . |
| 24 | I mean she 's only moved to erm |
| 25 | Seve 's drive was 50 yards from the front of the green and about 40 yards from the middle of the Open course fairway , but he was on the right side — do n't forget all his careful planning on studying the rough beforehand — which means he 's now coming back into the wind . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean it 's slightly degrading ? ’ said Sophia . |
| 27 | ‘ You mean she 's really disappeared ? |
| 28 | You mean she 's actually washed the hand that lay palm to palm with Rainbow 's as they danced ? |