Example sentences of "i mean [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean slightly , ah no this is gon na be a great laugh ! |
| 2 | Let , let us leave it till then because I mean otherwise we 're gon na get bogged down in this and whe when we really are briefing procedures . |
| 3 | But if he 's wrong I mean you ca n't just come back and be contentious if you 're wrong cos I mean otherwise you know it 's , it 's of no pr of no work . |
| 4 | I mean otherwise he should n't be the Managing Director , he should n't be the Chairman of the Board . |
| 5 | But I mean otherwise it 's got all the , all the good points in there , it 's a pity that councils do n't have these meaningful names |
| 6 | I mean properly ? " |
| 7 | ‘ There are any number of young girls you can marry if you wanted to — I mean properly , not as a farrago of the real thing . ’ |
| 8 | Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding . |
| 9 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 10 | But no wh what I 'm , when I said borne out later on I mean later on in the report |
| 11 | Yes , yes I mean unconsciously they will happen |
| 12 | So I mean sooner or later would have been had to do , do up you know ? |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't mean now , ’ said Scarlet , ‘ I mean tomorrow maybe . |
| 15 | I mean it 's not packed though , the shops were n't I mean tomorrow morning it 'll be m murder there it 'll be |
| 16 | You know what I mean tomorrow . |
| 17 | I mean eventually of course if somebody is dissatisfied , and they do n't believe that they 're getting er what they want , then they may well end up speaking to me , or writing to me , but er it 's the first place to start is with the individual service . |
| 18 | I mean eventually eventually , sooner or later and it might be later if somebody else will still it has to come out of the profit margin . |
| 19 | Well er I mean eventually we 'd have to think of something . |
| 20 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
| 21 | And he said this and he was n't I mean particularly , he said oh she 's just , you know she , she 's like sailed through Haileybury , she gets out of everything , she , he , he 's really keen on the sports side of things here so I do n't know why he got so het up about it but he said it really er pissed him off the way she erm |
| 22 | The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called . |
| 23 | I mean particularly so if you 're involved in the service , but I do n't think it 's just restricted to that , I want to know what 's going on . |
| 24 | Well I mean either borrowing the money I 'm afraid |
| 25 | I mean either we 're not there or there 's too many of us there . |
| 26 | I mean either that or they 're right up to your backside , you know , and I mean |
| 27 | I mean either they opt for a family , or they opt for a job . |
| 28 | Unless the odds are really in my favour — and I mean hugely so . |
| 29 | Well there 's , no I mean surely the same will apply on a Sunday ? |
| 30 | I mean surely there are people in the careers ser |