Example sentences of "i mean [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 2 | At first I thought that was why the police wanted him , because the sort of way we were thinking in there had been definitely subversive , I mean they do n't teach you that in school eh ! |
| 3 | I mean John Knox and Martin Luther Thingmy , I mean they built the Kirk on the tenets of independence . |
| 4 | Well , I mean they need to be managed . |
| 5 | ‘ Regrettably , our ancestors of some thirty-five centuries back do n't seem to have given too much thought to posterity , by which I mean they left no records to satisfy their descendants ’ intellectual curiosity . |
| 6 | I mean they 're normal to us but they 're not normal to other people , so why should we make them normal to them , just to please society ? |
| 7 | I mean they 're not they have n't sort of died out |
| 8 | I mean they were on farms all round here and erm people used to , they used to do a lot of toys . |
| 9 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 10 | But I mean they are there to provide advice and we do get an awful lot of case work . |
| 11 | The big step is then getting the rest of the Council to take it on board , that 's the big step , you know , leisure , the neighbourhood office 's , I mean the neighbourhood office 's are quite good , I mean they 've got a , they 've got a budget , a development budget , and like in Katherines and Sumners I know that a large proportion of the development budget there went on projects for young people , you know , so there are using there money . |
| 12 | I mean they should be fully a aware of of of our |
| 13 | I mean they could could n't they sponsor us to do it or something ? |
| 14 | But whether that is acknowledged by our Friends of the Earth I do n't know because I mean they have so many stamps and seals on |
| 15 | But that 's so quickly out of date again you see the good wood cos I mean they they have new government schemes , schemes every year do n't they ? |
| 16 | I mean they could give you a decent stand to put it in cos I hate those ones at Sainsbury 's . |
| 17 | Cos that , I mean they 're always going to be useful I use them myself and I expect you all |
| 18 | I mean they may be just just just about bringing one out so |
| 19 | Well we cou , we could write to both if necessary I mean they 'd want them to know that we , that our prisoner 's been released and that we can have another one . |
| 20 | Yes , because it 'll be nice , us , it 's , I mean they , abode there is a lot oth , there is , there is a lot of other work now , there prisoner are prisoner of is still fairly central is n't it , he or she to be , to be er , the work we do . |
| 21 | Er I mean they 're the kinds of things I 'm interested in knowing . |
| 22 | I mean they you know . |
| 23 | I mean they |
| 24 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
| 25 | I mean they recognize COHSE , they recognize NUPE NALGO they 've got to recognize unison . |
| 26 | It 's , I mean they 're , okay you 're applying from three different standpoints but it 's coming out of one well budgetholder 's erm kitty . |
| 27 | Yes yeah , I , I 'm also very disappointed that er er , in the negotiations that they did n't er er , come up with any sort of housing erm I think the , it 's mucking any future negotiations with other partners or developers , speculators whoever they may be , I think it 's important that we have , er we strike a balance between bu houses for sale and rented accommodation because , I mean they need to now the building er , this house for sale and each time we we we we knock down flats or building and ga gave the land free of charge to the speculators we have to de-count people , those people are moving th the existing te er people on the waiting list and they 're getting moved further and further back and er I think i i i it 's a very worrying situation where we are continually giving land free of charge and they 're getting no rented accommodation . |
| 28 | Yeah er the , the French erm have a very large nuclear programme er for , for a good erm logical gallic reasons , I mean they 've got no oil , they 've got no gas , they 've got no coal , so they decided , oh years and years ago in the nineteen fifties , to have a very large nuclear programme . |
| 29 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 30 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |