Example sentences of "and i mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the cheering at the end on Thursday evening — and I mean the cheering from upstairs , which is what matters — is a portent , then Kenneth MacMillan 's Prince Of The Pagodas is a success . |
| 2 | And I mean , like , all of this ? ’ |
| 3 | And I mean a long time ! ’ |
| 4 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 5 | Of course , I do n't expect all the little people reading it to attain the heights I have — and I mean , literally , the heights . |
| 6 | We 've been a bit lucky because , although our ball is in high rough — and I mean high ; it was up to Greg 's knees — we 've caught a good lie , so he can hit a pitching-wedge back on to the fairway . |
| 7 | ‘ And if they 're not in by tomorrow morning — and I mean tomorrow morning — you can assume that we 'll be buying our photocopying paper elsewhere ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Donald Templeton , ’ the vicar began , ‘ was a man loved , and I mean loved , by all who knew him . ’ |
| 9 | And I mean to leave , Aggie , and soon . ’ |
| 10 | Before his hand could reach her face she jumped back , crying , ‘ You do that , Father , you do that just once and there 'll be one less for breakfast tomorrow morning , and I mean that . |
| 11 | And I mean ‘ rate ’ in its mathematical rather than simply its physical sense ; it has nothing to do with time . |
| 12 | I have n't been brave enough to write to a publication of any sort before , but it is one of my favourite pieces of music , and this is the greatest performance I 've ever heard ( and I mean of anything ) , so thanks for the opportunity . |
| 13 | A second later — and I mean one second — the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel , leaving me pedalling air one moment and swimming in a pile of dead leaves the next . |
| 14 | Life goes on tediously , nothing happens for months , and then one day everything , and I mean everything , goes fucking wild and berserk . |
| 15 | Maybe I will have learnt say ‘ Yes ’ and I mean ‘ No ’ , or , ‘ I 'll do it tomorrow ’ when I have no such intention . |
| 16 | I no longer craved sweet things , no longer felt the need to binge and have only cheated twice ( and I mean one chocolate — not the whole box as before ) . |
| 17 | Otherwise , he 's out there on his own , and I mean , out there , in another squelchy world . |
| 18 | And I mean hot — in the skimpiest , cheekiest black leather or dazzling gold . |
| 19 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
| 20 | It may very well be , and I mean this seriously , that the adman invented the teenager . |
| 21 | And I mean that . |
| 22 | Before the game Jones said he accepted that the FA 's decision and said : ‘ I told the FA I 'll try to put something good back into the game and I mean it . ’ |
| 23 | In Italy when people move out they take everything — and I mean everything . |
| 24 | This takes the slim ( and I mean slim ) pillar between Crocodile Crack and Alligator Crawl . |
| 25 | ‘ I just called to say I 'm happy and I mean it from the bottom of my heart , ’ said Stevie . |
| 26 | And I mean , strong … |
| 27 | Peering into the tank using a strong eye-glass I could only see a few fry and I mean a few . |
| 28 | J.B. Oh yes , absolutely deliberately , to be respectable , because you know youth workers , well you know , what is it Chris ( the Community Deputy ) has got this phrase ‘ trendy , left wing , arty-farty bi-sexual ’ or something he says and I mean that 's the youth worker image is n't it ? |
| 29 | ‘ And I mean , now and again . |
| 30 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |