Example sentences of "what i meant [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 2 | ‘ What I meant was do you wish to pull in somewhere till this has eased a bit ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What I meant was , , said the oldest son , ‘ is that we are free at last . |
| 4 | What I meant was , you could n't prove it was my writing because I did n't write it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What I meant was — ’ she explained quietly , ‘ is that you ca n't marry me . |
| 6 | Th well what I meant was er what did I mean ? |
| 7 | What I meant was , have you seen any detailed accounts of the revenue from the Ships — how it arises , and how it 's paid ? " |
| 8 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
| 9 | What I meant was when I said five proposals |
| 10 | Oh but my Lord yes , but what I meant was nothing else was put as a far more serious suggestion . |
| 11 | But what I meant was , we was always , going have those two . |
| 12 | did n't mean that , what I meant was on this er exercise were , was it written down for instance that erm P C has Smith er Smith and Weston number thirty two ? |
| 13 | No , what I meant was , it was me in particular she was n't happy to see . ’ |
| 14 | No , what I meant was I meant to buy it , I wanted to buy a refill for it , but I ended up not buying the right fibre tip pen for it |
| 15 | but what I meant was is that we were gon na have a sort of a little gathering before but I suppose we could have that today sort of . |