Example sentences of "[pers pn] mean [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any one of your tenants , Sir John , and I mean no offence , could be the assassin . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean no offence . |
| 3 | ‘ Father , I mean no offence , ’ Colebrooke answered , taking off his conical helmet and cradling it in his arms . |
| 4 | dreadful it is , and there 's no erm , I mean no hope for the kids |
| 5 | I mean no disrespect to the geriatric branch of the hospital service nor to the domiciliary services or the rapidly increasing old people 's houses and homes provided by local housing , health and welfare authorities when I say that I believe we are still groping and fumbling with this problem — all of us , social scientists and politicians alike . |
| 6 | " I mean no disrespect , of course . |
| 7 | I mean no disrespect to the media , but some matters are carried forward more easily with the calm deliberation that the right hon. Gentleman described . |
| 8 | I mean no disrespect to the hon. Member for South Shields ( Dr. Clark ) , but , apart from his whinge against my right hon. Friend 's personal qualities , I did not detect that he would do anything fundamentally different were he in my right hon. Friend 's shoes . |
| 9 | Next in schedule three there is provision to compensate Mr and Mrs for the extra work involved in caring for Paul , it is agreed that er since they are in the special position of course of being Paul 's carers they are , not er , I mean no disrespect to nursing but they 're not erm it is agreed that there should a deduction of twenty five percent , that would give an annual figure of two thousand , six hundred and thirty one times four will amount to ten thousand five hundred and twenty four pounds , adding these figures together , future care during schooling comes if my addition has been accurate to ninety three thousand , six hundred and fifty pounds in total . |
| 10 | ‘ No … no , ’ said Creggan quickly , ‘ I mean no harm . |
| 11 | ‘ I am a golden eagle , ’ he said fiercely , ‘ and I mean no harm to you or yours . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Father Reynard , I mean no harm . ’ |
| 13 | quite good authorities to work for or , I mean no cash I suppose , but erm got some money |
| 14 | it was only occasionally , I mean no bother with it or each other |
| 15 | I mean every word ! ’ |
| 16 | Jo Joan when she came over she gave me a hug and she said I mean every word of that mum . |
| 17 | I mean every year we have a campaign from about the middle of January to the end of February where we promote British holidays through our shop windows , and in fact I was just totting up our advertising spend in the last four or five weeks and I would say we have spent almost a hundred thousand pounds on partner advertising for Lunn Poly — book your holiday at Lunn Poly for U K holidays . |
| 18 | And the union , I mean I 'm not blaming just NUPE I mean every union but we seem to have stood still and nothing 's happened and th and , and the m , and the members are actually sick of their lies about what , what am I paying all this money for then ? |
| 19 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 20 | mm I mean every Government does some good and some bad , but on the whole I think the Conservative have done good , because they 've made more people home owners than ever before |
| 21 | And they 're all ex stock and the update I every season , and I mean every season , that 's three seasons a year . |
| 22 | well he was a bit of a slave driver I mean every body |
| 23 | the festivals car park , you know the whole thing and I mean then he kicked them off did n't he , so they moved up to Cross Street so in a way it 's their own fault , they could of let them stay there , I mean every body wants to be settled somewhere like |
| 24 | I mean every week I supplied them with a new stack of everybody wanted them . |
| 25 | I du n no if you have n't done anything wrong I mean most of the time I mean every time Eleanor 's erm stopped talking to someone it 's always usually erm her misunderstanding something . |
| 26 | a tendency to be based on what you can read and what you understand of today 's social problems , I mean every thing we 've had so far apart from the industrial revolution and the history behind it |
| 27 | Well I , I took the liberty of the Lord Lieutenant 's appointed me to something called the Sussex Rural Options Land Bank and I brought you a copy of the leaflet , having notice of your question and I did ask the officer who deals with this in the Sussex Rural Community Council if he could give me the latest score on housing I thought that the news was bad from what he had said , but having said that , I mean every effort is being made to deal with the issues you raise in this council which is now chaired by Peter . |
| 28 | I mean a steam tug you got to have coal and you got to have the old boiler , old boiler , you got to heat that up for the steam cos that did n't pay then . |
| 29 | I mean a machine , d well they do , they do carry timber but you got ta have the men there have n't you ? |
| 30 | I mean y when th I mean a gang on a timber boat , they 'd be ten men and one hatch man and that 's eleven men . |