Example sentences of "mean [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when people say advance man , they usually mean Harvey Thomas . |
| 2 | precisely , I mean Prince , the Duchess of York goes to church and she lived in sin for ye years with that bloody racing driver so she 's , she 's nothing |
| 3 | I mean clubs that are arranging fixtures will be responsible for telling , they 'll know where it is , and they 'll be responsible for telling people who are coming there where it is . |
| 4 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 5 | Erm , I mean headquarters as from adminis , the administrative erm part of it I do n't know whether you saw the Barnardos This is Your Life lady |
| 6 | Now , we while you 're here you know wha just to sort of ten minutes erm I mean Ian 's produced these sheets |
| 7 | Er as a result of the success we 've now got to go back and revisit it , I mean Ian you know has been leading in from from this office er and that it 's the person contact which counts for so much . |
| 8 | differently through se sheer speed and but er I can see Gabiadini I mean Ian Wright never flicks like some of the flicks that he does . |
| 9 | I mean only what anyone would mean by saying that clouds mean ( i.e. are a sign of ) rain or , as in Figure 3 , that bees mean honey . |
| 10 | And from that belief Pooh then derives the belief that there 's honey by inferring it , via his belief that bees mean honey , i.e. that where there are bees there 'll be honey . |
| 11 | ’ I just mean experience . |
| 12 | He also said , I mean groups of people who are not answerable to wider collective membership . |
| 13 | The French lorry drivers started their blockade because of new laws being introduced which mean disqualification for any driver accumulating 6 penalty points on his licence . |
| 14 | I mean molecules that are rather larger , molecules that actually are rather important in biological systems . |
| 15 | You mean Raoul as in |
| 16 | ‘ The effect of this will fall much more on less mainstream client groups , by which I mean drug and alcohol misusers , and highly physically disabled people ’ . |
| 17 | I mean plans for education ? |
| 18 | Yeah , it 's er , it 's er cheap for the wardrobes , but expensive for the over bed unit , I mean Gary said well at that price he said the over bed unit we might as well get out of a catalogue . |
| 19 | And kids mean money — not money like throw-it-away 1986 money , but chronic money : money which goes slice by slice into the mortgage , the pension plan , the life insurance , the repairs to the house ( yes , it 's goodbye rank , noisy little flat and hallo four bedrooms somewhere quieter now that the family 's started ) , school fee plans , nappies , baby clothes , holidays in DIY villas in southern France , and the bigger car to get you , the kids , and their impedimenta to the DIY villa . |
| 20 | Although crowds mean money , the rulers of cricket have never been quite happy about them . |
| 21 | When Tories say freedom they mean money ; the freedom to send your child to a private school means the money to send your child to a private school . |
| 22 | " You mean money in your bank , do n't you . |
| 23 | ‘ You mean money ? ’ asked Husband . |
| 24 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |
| 25 | Oh erm T I mean T W H I T H. |
| 26 | Erm there are several strains in current use , produced by different manufacturers of B C G , used for the treatment of erm superficial , by which I mean T A , P T A , P T one and in situ disease in the bladder . |
| 27 | Wel , yes I mean T B in animals is actually very very rare , cos of course all the cow |
| 28 | ‘ To think up habits — I mean rituals . ’ |
| 29 | Company profits mean income for the Government . |
| 30 | And I mean part of the point of doing the training of course is to get the hang of how to handle that . |