Example sentences of "[be] [verb] i mean [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | need to know , need to know , I do n't know mum , I could n't tell you just erm stick it on before you go to bed just give it a bit of time to take the chill of it , alright , bye You can if you wish discard everything that 's just been said I mean my mother 's trying to book my holiday which does n't surprise me , , but then again she usually tries to anyway , where you going ? , what you doing ? , who you going with ? right , I shall tell you now the exam questions shall I ? , what do you want to know ? |
2 | What you 're doing I mean you 're coming along very well really . |
3 | Well perhaps to se se se er , you know streamline or rationalise what we 're doing I mean you know , we can we 've asked that we actually hand you in our section on this , right ? |
4 | And , correctly interpreting his expression , she added forcefully , ‘ And if that look you 're giving me means what I think it means — it does n't ! |
5 | That 's what I 've been doing I meant I mean that ! |
6 | Yes but I 'm thinking I mean there 's so much to do here Larry , you er you know , you 're not a young man any more . |
7 | Chairman , chairman that is n't really fair , I mean the vote has actually been taken I mean I 've no doubt there 's a situation where we say , right , you know , it 's a draw er , you know , this does n't erm , that have a have . |
8 | But if , if if this is the strategy which is being adopted in broadly it is being adopted I mean I 'm , I 'm not just sort of arguing just for the sake of arguing , it is |
9 | Peace programmes and that , I do n't know whether they 're just being broadcast I mean you wo you know , Ken , you know those American programmes that were on ? |
10 | Aye well of course at that time , in nineteen forty eight , I was detached I mean I I did n't know much about the management 's thinking , or their pronouncements . |
11 | I was wondering I mean there may possibly be differences between I mean there was the format that speech generate of the H P and the format that the Sun would use . |
12 | as I say , it was followed I mean it wasn there was no link between the two things . |