Example sentences of "[pron] mean [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other possible way of answering your question is to think in terms of having a large project in which you would write a whole series of poems that would add up into a book , which as it happens I have just done , since I have just published a book of poems which are all retellings of bible stories , and there the subjects quite clearly came from the outside , though I mean unless they latch onto something inside you they wo n't make poems . |
| 2 | No , I mean that it comes as a surprise when you first experience it , and then after that you ca n't change the course of events . |
| 3 | I mean before they came to the centre I think people felt Save The Children only did work in countries abroad . |
| 4 | No , oh no , certainly not , but , but I mean before we get to the prescriptive level which is quite er a , a long way down the road , at the analytic level I think , I think Anne-Marie 's point is she 's trying to understand erm just what the the significances of these difference in parental investment are . |
| 5 | When I was out on the road I mean before I came into training I was so I laid my cards at the table at this point in time to say yes I need to sell insurance erm and I always remember particular broker who you go in and and he 's saying well so how many of these particular products would you sell over the next year and he said oh twenty five and you go in great , guy 's promised to sell twenty five domestic contents policies over the next year . |
| 6 | Now Will brought down an old van er which was scrap it was quite a good body I mean and he painted on it , We 're still open , er something like , Despite Transport and General Workers ' Union picketing we are fully open , and he plonked this van with no wheels on it just the body right th in the entrance of th on his own ground naturally er right in front of the pickets which was like you know tantalizing . |
| 7 | Yes an I mean and I mean in winter time a wooden sole and a clog they wer they were nice and warm cos I mean you only used to polish 'em you used to put oil on them . |
| 8 | And then , after a time , we er had the er electricity took up the yard and into the shop and then we was able to buy a little machine you know what I mean and it went from there . |
| 9 | I mean like I said on a Friday we get thirteen seventy five till twelve o'clock . |
| 10 | Get , and I mean like I said to you today you 've still got your cough . |
| 11 | Well she says if you 'd of come to Sandra 's she 'd make you something , I says I know Eileen and so would I as well , I says I would n't have anybody coming in and bringing them sandwiches , I mean if somebody knocked on the , on our door one day from Queensbury and we did n't know they were coming and they 'd brought sandwiches with them |
| 12 | Yes , I think I mean if one goes into corruption one could spend an awful long time . |
| 13 | Er yeah , well you know we were rough because , but I mean if we got into a fight , there we there were no gang warfare . |
| 14 | I mean if we look at I mean the woman 's erm the portrayal of female politicians I think is a very good case in point . |
| 15 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 16 | Yeah , well I suppose any , I mean if they go to London or Manchester or , or er I , I think they 're gon na produce something rather like th the books you buy for your kids when they 're young , you know . |
| 17 | cos I mean if they walked into here on stood on that bar hundred and twenty people |
| 18 | Oh yeah , and his dog , yeah likes it as well yeah , they used to leave a tray out for him every night , yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed , it wo , I mean if they closed at lunchtime it would n't come down it would only come down when they closed up at night . |
| 19 | Well I would of , I would of thought that , I mean if your gon na take something out that that 's sort of size all well and good , but I mean it wo n't even dispense will it ? |
| 20 | I mean if you listen to the antiques . |
| 21 | I mean if you walk into the station on a day wanting to get on a train there are still several different fares you can pay . |
| 22 | I , yo i , I mean if you use in one . |
| 23 | Now the odds on the tote , I mean if you looked at the , I did n't bet on the National , cos I did n't like the odds . |
| 24 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |
| 25 | Everything , I mean if you go in the afternoon and you go early you can have a lovely dinner for fifty P |
| 26 | I mean if you go round the motorways , every other car is a Rover car . |
| 27 | okay , so if I mean if you come to me and see and say we wan na exchange on tomorrow |
| 28 | Oh yeah I mean if you wanted to also link that with multicultural situation or or cross cultural or comparing it with other ones I mean that 's no problem . |
| 29 | I mean if you wanted to be really obscure |
| 30 | So even if you did n't have a protractor , I mean if you wanted to be really fussy and find out exactly you could measure it and say , ooh that 's actually , it 's not eighty that 's seventy nine and this is a hundred and one so she spends a pound and a penny on sweets and she saves seventy nine . |