Example sentences of "mean [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean somewhere to live ? ’ |
| 2 | I mean in says in twenty-eight that , that the quality co-ordinator 's responsible for maintaining for example , master lists of procedures , so . |
| 3 | That really sort of I mean obviously depending on what you pay I mean the policies can vary from twenty five pounds up to four hundred pounds . |
| 4 | Gerald Sterling neatly summed up the Conservative case : ‘ Voting Labour means high taxes , high taxes mean less to spend , less to spend means fewer things bought , fewer things bought means fewer things produced , and fewer things produced means less work for everyone . ’ |
| 5 | The one who took the lead looked big enough and mean enough to relish a ruck if there was a chance of one . |
| 6 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 7 | I mean only to provide the following answer to the argument from coordination as an argument for conventionalism . |
| 8 | I mean literally lost her . |
| 9 | Oh I see , you mean not get it till then ? |
| 10 | I mean not gon na ask you anything difficult . |
| 11 | Still the point was well made , I mean not sounding like you can sort of freeze an article to , not compromise the sort of committee , I mean , it is , dead if you give it away and you would n't consider pressure groups , they 'll pick up their report and their copies anywhere , and take bits out and quote you , I mean , I mean I know I 'm in this , I like to distort , like them to know our official disposition before it 's dead . |
| 12 | ‘ You mean not fucking me , Fergus , is that what you mean ? ’ |
| 13 | Okay , I mean just ignore that one , forget I wrote it . |
| 14 | Yeah , yeah that 's right , but I mean just go and have a look , and I actually said to her well you 'd be better with somebody else , you know , not going in there on your own |
| 15 | Someone 's got ta come round I mean just to see where but I just I 'll ring , I 'll give you a buzz on Monday , I know you 're not there , you can say , well , I 'll see you again on Tuesday in English , perhaps you can arrange something then . |
| 16 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 17 | I mean just thinking that ? |
| 18 | Yeah I mean just getting the keynote speech from each one would be nice would n't it . |
| 19 | She know that and she just seems to be like a vicious circle all the time , I mean she does n't , I mean just getting deeper , deeper into debt . |
| 20 | I mean you wo n't want much but I mean just to hold it . |
| 21 | off I mean just keep yes . |
| 22 | For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen . |
| 23 | There 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through , an awful lot of people to see , an awful lot of red tape really to get through , first , I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards . |
| 24 | And particularly I mean just signing the V Os , because if it 's cocked up , the question 's been asked of me . |
| 25 | I mean just look at you ! ’ |
| 26 | Well I mean just look at the map you 're you 're going to and then you 're going to . |
| 27 | I mean just read round for fun yo and see if there 's anything that sticks and if you get chance to use it in an exam , do Okay , then it says develop a stock of gems . |
| 28 | That 's right I mean just do th both bits at the back and front at the same time , yes . |
| 29 | What they do , I mean just play a game , it 's just a ga it 's a it 's a game , like sort of Simon says , try and catch them out in things , you 'll say right , now you 've got to point at a window , say , and then you have to point at , and you can get them all doing it , you |
| 30 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |