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 .
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