Example sentences of "[pron] mean a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And I the same for , when Lindsey was a wee girl and I mean a wee girl like , I 'd pick wee things for her I 'd of loved my mummy to buy me .
2 I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier .
3 We see an awful lot of people have got a tremendous investment in traditional character cell terminals and by a character cell terminal I mean a dumb terminal of twenty four lines of eighty characters .
4 Everyone , I 'm sure , has a ‘ little black dress ’ type of pattern , by which I mean a perennial favourite that gets made up in different yarns and colours over the years for various celebrations , parties and so on .
5 I mean a simple thing is erm , if you , if you spin something like that for example .
6 And I mean a long time ! ’
7 If you were right out in empty space — I mean a long , long way from anything else — you 'd expect to go straight ahead .
8 I mean you 've co I mean a long , you know not that long ago , you were sort of tending to put it off a lot .
9 I am saying Mr Major , as Prime Minister , if someone in my position is saying I believe , I believe , there is the best opportunity here for lasting peace , by which I mean a total cessation of violence , the least I expect is that you should listen to what I have to say .
10 I mean a brilliant idea really .
11 ‘ Has anyone done your portrait , I mean a modern painter ? ’
12 In actual fact , that car of his being light , I mean a front wheel drive will probably be able to and being light probably be better served for getting out of difficult situations than the other cars .
13 And I mean a great thrill he was to us , he cried come here and see this and here was among all his little moles , he had a white one a pure white mole .
14 Oh indeed , I mean a great many of them we have no responsibility at all for , we merely give advice when requested .
15 I also aimed at another thing which people consider Italian I mean a certain squareness and horizontality of outline .
16 I , I , I notice from the schedule that , I mean a tremendous difference in cost per person if you just add , divided the people into , which suggest the way you 're being work out on a basis of individual needs , and what the carer provides .
17 I mean a good film .
18 The first fella was ver no there 's , there 's some women on the course w er we will see who are actually presenting the course , I mean a good fifty percent of the course is
19 I mean a hundred is probably big enough , twenty five might be is more or less big enough .
20 it 's a matter of ho I mean er greater equality was achieved , but they could 've erm I mean a hundred and fifty was a very low threshold
21 But I mean a fixed rate is a bird in the hand , really , and I think they 're quite good at the moment .
22 I mean a fixed term contract for a year for a new in , for an investigator , first of all we 've got to find someone who would do it , secondly if that person was n't frankly al already an investigator the investment in that person .
23 Try taking a holiday ( I mean a real holiday ; do n't toss the mobile phone and a few unfinished reports into the suitcase with your flip-flops ) and see if you feel better away from it all .
24 I mean a real belief that I have the word ‘ tiger ’ or ‘ leopard ’ or whatever .
25 I mean a real Safeway , you know , the ones you see in the U S where everything you know , even the trolleys , are seven times bigger , erm n n not like they are , you know , the aliens land in the car park of the Maple Valley Safeways in Washington State , and , and observe people coming out of it with enormous piles of shopping .
26 But you know what a Yardie packs — I mean a real Yardie ?
27 I mean a free press which is edited by one of my relatives .
28 It 's a lellow I mean a yellow tie .
29 It seemed that they were either capitalist or social democrats which I mean a social democrat by any other na a Tory by any other name 's just the same .
30 I mean a little elephant brooch or something .
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