Example sentences of "mean [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I mean nothing to do with this one . |
| 2 | I mean nothing gets dry outside this time of year oh there 's not much taste in this coffee is there ? , do you think so ? |
| 3 | It 's obvious you mean them harm . ’ |
| 4 | I mean everyone does these things , do n't they ? ’ |
| 5 | I mean everyone 's got want them , basically . |
| 6 | It , it 's also a chain , from what you 're going on about , people regarding the service , I mean everyone 's had a bit , not just the erm , it , it 's the purchase managers more than the er , people who pay our premiums , they are just in time and we stood up to be shot at if we do n't pay the service , or put a big ones maybe , they 'll have half a carton of raw material left for that machine , so they 'll order an item for tomorrow morning , well they 're not to blame for the service , T N T's to blame for the service if we do n't get it erm , |
| 7 | Yeah I mean everyone 's got |
| 8 | I mean everyone knows it , it 's very familiar . |
| 9 | I mean everyone knows she fancies him , but like , she 's been getting really flirty ! |
| 10 | ‘ You mean someone to take in the ironing ? |
| 11 | ‘ You mean someone tried to kill him ? ’ he said , his voice low . |
| 12 | Yeah , but I mean someone 's got to open it |
| 13 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 14 | In fact I go out of my way ( I mean I walk several streets out of my way ) to make myself seen . |
| 15 | I mean I er er I mean I just do n't know how you , you begin and end with this actually I mean I really do n't and I mean I think quite frankly if Hydro Electric were to go out and say okay , we will fund the purchase of twenty houses four bedrooms each for the homeless right I would have thought in terms of doing something I mean I walk round Princes Street and I see those poor sods and I say to myself |
| 16 | I mean I use things like Money Management , and they 're quite useful , erm but er you do n't need to erm er spend a lot of time looking round . |
| 17 | I mean I use to do a full time job outside the home , then come back and do all the housework and the washing and the children . |
| 18 | and it 's all I mean I use this gel stuff |
| 19 | But I , I mean I use it as a , that may be the psychology behind it , but I use it as a bad example of , for obvious reasons , and there 's a real bad example , and there may be some politics behind it , there 's What I think is a good example : ‘ Southeast Arts ’ sorry , ‘ Southeast Tourist Board , South of England Board . ’ |
| 20 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 21 | I mean I keep on tell |
| 22 | I mean I keep on saying if I found I could n't do the maths I 'd ditched |
| 23 | So I said to him , right I said we either go I mean I keep saying to him you 've got ta do something about this ! |
| 24 | Oh , certainly , yes , I mean I keep a record here — I 'm turning over my figures which shows my weekly intakes of U K holidays this year against last year . |
| 25 | Yes , I mean I noticed from the draft P P G thirteen that they do not define small . |
| 26 | It was slippy though I mean I noticed that even , you know just pulling away from or something like that okay I mean it 's a reasonably car but I mean , you know just a little bit too heavy on the accelerator |
| 27 | Yeah I mean I hope all , I will be able t all I will do is say well we 've got about fifty bloody criteria here . |
| 28 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 29 | And if there 's no work and if there 's no means by which people can get themselves you know those sorts of basic things but you know I 'm not gon na si I I could n't say that the whole structure is going to ch change becau but I think erm I hope anyway and I do believe really that er I mean I hope that we 're going to stay together as a support group in some sort of form and Yes and there 's no way that we 're not going to support other causes in the way that we 've been supported . |
| 30 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |