Example sentences of "mean i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | out and never said ta ta to anyone , I mean I ran over and I said to mum he 's got a funny on , what do you think ? |
| 2 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
| 3 | I mean I looked out and thought well |
| 4 | I mean I did n't take a lot with me , I mean I took too much as it was and my arm carrying it across the Underground . |
| 5 | I mean I got pretty bad marks I find it difficult , find it very difficult . |
| 6 | But the , I mean I came home and they were under the hedge they were n't going through but there 's a big piece of netting has come down and it needs erm stitching up and then it needs sewing , not sewing erm |
| 7 | A man walked in and he says hello to John and that and how 's it going and that , he came into see you and I sat , I mean I came in |
| 8 | I mean I went straight in , tell me about your wife , I mean you could 've said well she 's not my wife |
| 9 | No , I mean I went in , I was talking to this , this bloke |
| 10 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 11 | I mean I went out because I mean |
| 12 | I mean I knew just as much as him . |
| 13 | I mean I thought personally that erm appendix one which was the initial submission was rather better erm in connection with the exception of three appendix one , it 's rather better than you know appendix two is sort of drafted in terms of , of , of , of . |
| 14 | I have took alopecia before I mean I thought maybe |
| 15 | Well we used to take it in our stride , I mean I grew up with an old Victorian house with potent fires and you had keep the fires going either wise in the winter it was bitterly cold , it was nice and cool in the summer coming out of the heat . |
| 16 | I mean I had n't any worries . |
| 17 | I mean I had so I it did help . |
| 18 | I mean and , and I mean I turned up about half an hour before the end and , and Iris really was looking a , I , I can confirm a picture of dejection |
| 19 | I mean I mentioned earlier the fact that it might be that people perceive sexual harassment , where in fact the behaviour has been perfectly appropriate and it 's just that the person perceiving it is unused to it , but I think that 's the minority of cases , incidentally . |
| 20 | I mean I did not need to stay on at school or get my B.A. at Strathclyde to know when not to F or C. Fuck-me shoes , I just handed them back to the saleslady with as much dignity as I could muster and says , thanks but no thanks , I do n't know when I 'd ever have the occasion to werr them . |
| 21 | I mean I did n't even have to look , you see , you |
| 22 | I went through the reception , and I was shaking ; I mean I did n't need to tell them I was on drugs , they could tell the drugs were on me . |
| 23 | You know I mean I did n't want to come today . |
| 24 | Father hated to be disturbed when he had anybody with him and I could see he was annoyed so I made myself scarce ; I mean I did n't stay to say what I wanted . ’ |
| 25 | I mean I did n't see that so |
| 26 | But I mean I did n't want to exclude anything anybody 's referred . |
| 27 | I mean I did n't know that many men died of breast cancer but apparently they do . |
| 28 | it was still in the sixties , they call it the swinging sixties , I mean I did n't see anything swinging in the sixties at all , I did n't think it was swinging , but er and they do n't like now the swinging sixties and I think really it was then that er people did er branch out to new ideas . |
| 29 | The the scheduler , Pauline I ca n't make her out , she seems to be fairly u straight , organized but it had got to the situation where I mean I did n't like it but it happened , we were supplying six months of product and then was supplying six months . |
| 30 | ‘ I mean I did n't steal Mrs Foster 's jewels . ’ |