Example sentences of "mean they [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean them let's face it one out the three of us should of thought a bit more . |
| 2 | I think that 's where they meet , I mean they may come from all the place but it 's the Judges Guild and I 'm due to speak to them tomorrow night . |
| 3 | Oh well I mean they may have been adjourned or a |
| 4 | ‘ You mean they might disapprove ? ’ |
| 5 | So tha tha at that time , I mean they might get as much as three pound for mooring one ship up . |
| 6 | I mean they 'll do nothing about sex , they 'll just do all about morals , wo n't they , and decent , respectable people I 'd say and biology 's just cold and clinical . |
| 7 | I mean they 'll go to a concert and make judgments about what they hear quite happily … they come back and moan , ‘ We ca n't judge composition , how do we know what criteria to use ? ’ |
| 8 | yeah well I mean they 'll want to and they 've got |
| 9 | Where yo where you are I mean they 'll have nothing . |
| 10 | Well they 're some of the best in the land , greyhound punters , I mean they 'll come they like their greyhound racing , real erm diehard people and erm they 'll come in any weather , I mean , the other Thursday when we really had a load of snow down , I mean no-one would come , you would n't even get off your couch for that , but erm we still had three hundred people attend which was erm even though as I say , we lost money on the erm meeting . |
| 11 | The other , the other weakness it possibly turned up is that , my experience is that , unless something bad there , the press do n't really want to do anything about it , if you 're just trying to sell your wares and say how good you are , and then hide a bit behind , I mean they 'll turn around anyway the circle , must be something . |
| 12 | I mean they 'll knit this Arran and . |
| 13 | I think if , if they adopted a policy of erm of struggle last time , I mean they would get to land reform indirectly but I do n't think you can erm initiate it from the Party as such like because that causes all sorts of problems through definitions and things like that but |
| 14 | erm now what then is the position what is the nature of the criticism or the claims being made by the group of palaeontologists whom I 'm going to refer to , for reasons that will become apparent , as the punctuations — because I mean they would call themselves punctuations . |
| 15 | see so I mean they should know |
| 16 | I mean if , if people smoke too much , I mean they should put the kids before the c the cigarettes , and erm people I have heard say that , I 've seen in the pub three or four nights a week . |
| 17 | useless but I mean they should come out of somebody 's drawer under their own personal supply . |
| 18 | I mean , it 's unbelievable , you know th er , he 's done so many breweries and yet why they do n't talk to wo well I mean they must talk to one another . |
| 19 | I mean they must pay the cover |
| 20 | Salvadorean women often remark that they live in a " matriarchal society " , by which they mean they must support their children single-handed . |
| 21 | Because they must , I mean even though Mark 's are good suits , I mean they must get a lot of wear . |
| 22 | I mean all this sitting on the fence I mean they must have very sore bums . |
| 23 | Then you know I mean they must have what was going on oh aye they just completely ignore it . |
| 24 | She was out in the front seeing as one of her umpteen people , I mean they must pack them in ! |
| 25 | I mean they must find they must find it expensive because I mean if they 're keeping that house on they have to have somebody going in to look at it , wo n't they ? |
| 26 | I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly . |
| 27 | You mean they could 've , they could 've gone for the Soviet style collectivization ? |
| 28 | I mean they could give you a decent stand to put it in cos I hate those ones at Sainsbury 's . |
| 29 | I mean they could have rung yesterday that 's the trouble you see they 've got so many friends Good girl you fairly worked that bleeding money . |
| 30 | I mean they could have gone , look how long Aberech station , er platform is . |