Example sentences of "[noun] i mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt , Thérèse whispered : it was , the lady in the woods I mean , when I got there , I saw her . |
| 2 | Well there are ways are n't there I mean even in traditionally , I mean what of wet-nursing I mean that 's an example is n't it where a woman gets another woman to do the job for her . |
| 3 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 4 | Yes I mean if it is possible to provide that huge acreage I mean the space per player or whatever is rather less for croquet than for cricket , is n't it ? |
| 5 | yeah , that 's true it does show ya that it can grow though do n't it , not the hair I mean AI AIDS you know if you shave somebody head and got AIDS and you shave his head , he cuts them both , that 's it , two people 's got AIDS just like that . |
| 6 | No , for your hair I mean . |
| 7 | Yeah , you say that , but you know , your , if you had underarm hair , no one would say hmm , that man 's got underarm hair I mean , it 's quite alright , but for women to have underarm hair , it 's just not . |
| 8 | Maybe they just , he just done it so cheap because of the recession I mean |
| 9 | Do you know the story I mean the parable I mean ? |
| 10 | I do n't know if I want to talk about this on a Saturday lunchtime I tell you Dan I mean it really is it 's erm What are you doing ? |
| 11 | Well , well his parents I mean the extreme Protestants are , are on the rise I mean in South America you know I mean the world 's largest Pentecostal Churches are in Lima and Peru and millions are now becoming erm born-again Christians in South America . |
| 12 | Pamela I mean , thou art very good in the main . |
| 13 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 14 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 15 | erm you know like for instance I mean erm I mean I suppose I feel British but I mean I do n't feel I have any very strong identification with with other British people because there are so many other people in the world speak English and erm often people from other countries who in many ways you identify with them more . |
| 16 | Erm but picking up on that erm for instance I mean er first first impressions are the most important . |
| 17 | Were you to turn over that banner which is I think magnificently designed , you would find the other side is entirely about international connections between workers and various groups and so on , so it 's got the international , the wider version and I 'm delighted to know that you have here , you I understand that the G M B is perhaps the only body which has the nearest thing to a formal alliance with the trade union in Germany I mean this is tremendous . |
| 18 | that 's no excuse I mean Sparkie I 'd come here , all the time , well Iris has a I mean |
| 19 | Escape from the Germans I mean . |
| 20 | Anyway i , d' you wan na use your hose I mean I 'll put the car in the garage if you do . |
| 21 | No telling us where I do n't know this one come but being a foreign driver I mean he he could have from anywhere in the country and he could have been on the road a long time . |
| 22 | And he recalls or was it the s same bus conductor , the same bus driver I mean . |
| 23 | well he was a bit of a slave driver I mean every body |
| 24 | I see that as a big change I mean I see that , I think that was coming without sponsorship . |
| 25 | It 's O K if your headmasters that run the school change I mean schools tend to change with headmasters do n't they ? |
| 26 | I mean in most clubs I mean they come in , they have a game of cards |
| 27 | What do you think Dean I mean ? |
| 28 | the er , erm , so I mean , we really have made major strides and I think if members look at the location maps I mean you can see just how we how widely spread the day centres now are . |
| 29 | Um and also it may be possible to y'know you may want to start out by showing people some stuff and trying to get them to talk about it so you you understand the sort of language concepts , repertoires , or whatever you want to call them , that people are actually using to try try and work out some more formal questions from that and move on to a questionnaire type thing y'know I mean that 's a possibility . |
| 30 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |