Example sentences of "[pron] mean at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean at six thirty . |
| 2 | I mean at first I did n't know what you mean , but I do now . |
| 3 | So when someone walks up with the intention of breaking in a light comes on , I mean at one time , it 's not the same now , but at one time when these lights with the detectors first came out , nobody actually knew whether they were switched on or not . |
| 4 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
| 5 | Not quite cos I mean at one time , when he was Christopher 's age god he was never free from cold was he ? |
| 6 | I mean even us we we 're going in and out intensive care having a fag , having a cup of coffee , walking in , we 're full of germs I mean at one time you used to have to have gloves you know , did n't you ? |
| 7 | I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are . |
| 8 | I mean at one time it was the Times Literary Supplement or something with an Oxford box around it . |
| 9 | ‘ That is n't what I mean at all . |
| 10 | That 's not what I mean at all . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I mean at that point I would either do that , you know er change it or that would have been it |
| 14 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is n't what I meant at all ! |
| 18 | ‘ That was n't what I meant at all . ’ |
| 19 | I Have n't needed try , Brenda , I ca n't I mean at one time I 'd have devoured that . |
| 20 | The new channel was dredged to about 10.3 metres below high water ordinary spring tide which means at low water of the same tide approximately 5.5 metres of water was available . |
| 21 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 22 | Did she mean at four in the morning , or at a time of extremity ? |
| 23 | I did n't know what she meant at first . |
| 24 | By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Indeed it is difficult to imagine such a state of affairs , but in fact Marx , especially in Formen makes it quite clear that this is not what he meant at all ; it is only under the influence of Morgan in The Origin that Engels might possible by construed to have implied something so unlikely . |
| 26 | Commonly it means at any instant having several partially-executed programs , among which the computer resources have to be shared in such a way that they interact ( if at all ) only in authorized ways . |