Example sentences of "[pron] mean [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 2 | I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier . |
| 3 | Well they were , they were really dependent on , I mean on each other , they were a unit even though they were two families in a way |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | I mean at that point I would either do that , you know er change it or that would have been it |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | See what I mean about that skirt ? |
| 11 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 12 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 13 | ‘ Those trees were superb ; there was drama in each figure I was going to say , but I mean in each tree … . |
| 14 | I mean in any case ten minutes . |
| 15 | Erm I mean in another year er hopefully it comes out of the profit margin . |
| 16 | Because that 's really erm a part of what I mean by this criterion . |
| 17 | And er the diesel pumps were n't on and er there was a couple of guys putting on breathing apparatus and trying to get in to restart them , but I mean by this stage the smoke was so thick they could n't even find where the pumps were . |
| 18 | I have to say that I hope Mr in fact did n't actually write the words of the motion it looks to me and those members of the education committee will know what I mean like another version of the Docklands back garden fudge . |
| 19 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 20 | I mean after all life is life . |
| 21 | Oh there yes , no I meant in this country |
| 22 | Well it does I mean with these light being fluorescent , they give off a small charge , when the you know when the lights come on . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Which means in any war if they can ba , if there 's a war again in the Yugoslav states , er Germany are involved . |
| 25 | You mean like that dabble it on ? |
| 26 | What do you mean by that statement ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Come , Biddy , what do you mean by this silence ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What do you mean by any number ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We 've both realised what we mean to each other . |
| 30 | We could do worse than try to reach some understanding in the lesbian and gay communities of what we mean by this question . |