Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] mean the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To minimize confusion , I shall use consumerism where I mean the first , and the consumer movement to denote the second . |
| 2 | Or I mean the flood of phone calls that have no doubt saved the erm Green Party . |
| 3 | the last week in September and it was the last week it was open , so you 're better of going near the middle or I mean the beginning or |
| 4 | Now having said that I mean the late long established er unit trust group , I mean as a , as a company we 've got to be very careful who we use , we 've got an approved list erm in London and in Bournemouth we have erm a , a department which analyzes products , and those products come onto our approved list when they 've , when they 've fulfilled a number of criteria . |
| 5 | And er th the fire was getting that bad that I mean the smoke was blowing directly across the platform at that stage . |
| 6 | Do you not think that I mean the people who were saying keep them there they 're saying it adds something to what 's in the city centre do you not agree ? |
| 7 | One of the , one of the things that I mean the is cards . |
| 8 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |
| 9 | Now the part they play in the community depending on your political statistical or whatever leisure interest viewpoint may be that you think they have n't got the combination right but that 's obviously a very subjective thing , but I think that I mean the visibility and the social responsibility implements I would have thought are two of the most important for people . |
| 10 | Erm the crunch will come in in a year we should You see I 'm hoping that I mean the favours are important . |
| 11 | ‘ So you mean the confederate closed the window — with gloves on — and hid somewhere . ’ |
| 12 | ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | In other words , I mean I 'm retired and I mean the point is that my erm experience goes back into the er into the dark ages I can almost say because in these days , you probably realise , I mean if anybody buys a video you do n't ask you do n't look for the book of instructions you ask about a five year old kiddy how to programme it ! |
| 16 | And I mean the actual the U K market those in those areas is quite developed and has got quite a reputation but obviously it has got to be able to develop develop and adapt accordingly over time . |
| 17 | Erm and I mean the people who saw it , everyone was indignant . |
| 18 | And I mean the banks have erm er r really been an i indicator of economic performance , and , and that , that 's the case . |
| 19 | And I mean the media from their point of view is not getting across . |
| 20 | And I mean the everybody , everybody in the debt collection industry talks of this department . |
| 21 | And I mean the nurses and everybody , the doctors were really great , and they give us the best of treatment there , and I do n't think you 'll speak to anybody that was in the hospital that 'll say anything differently , they were really great . |
| 22 | But you know it 's funny how why it was so I mean the grit and those were quite sharp you know You you 'd have thought that it would have taken your skin but then it was ideal stuff for getting the grease the you know the dirt and I mean the the greasy dirt away . |
| 23 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 24 | And I mean the kids the kids that we yo yo some kids er , I mean they were just beautiful and other kids lost them within a couple of days ! |
| 25 | Erm and and I mean the actual bearing when you you pick up a a a a little miniature bearing and and you can spin it on your finger and |
| 26 | is n't so bad but , I mean if you 're like us and I mean the smoke 's just |
| 27 | And I mean the fact you know y you can see his point , I mean |
| 28 | So erm if , if it was er if it was a matter of oh bankrolling him out to wherever it was or supplementing his own resources okay , but the , the experience and I mean the personal experience as well as the er the skills experience |
| 29 | yeah , they 're not even allowed free travel in their own country , but they are , it 's a police state , they are checked and double-checked , and I mean the things we hear now about , they have a lot of Philippine workers there |
| 30 | And I mean the way he did that table |