Example sentences of "mean [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | I mean I remember reading a few bits in English but , you know , |
| 5 | I think the difficulty is , though I mean I remember getting blind drunk as a student , and I loved it . |
| 6 | I mean I walked to work every Saturday and Sunday no matter what the weather |
| 7 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 8 | but I , I 'd never get them done , and I mean I 'd fed Matthew and I shouted down and I said look you 'll have to come and get him dressed cos I 've got dinners to put up yet |
| 9 | Well I mean I 'd bought stuff they 'd all share . |
| 10 | I mean I 'd forgotten all about him but I can remember |
| 11 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 12 | yeah , yeah I mean I 'd thought about it for ours |
| 13 | I mean I 'd had a sort of cry I suppose , but at the actual time I was glad I had a daughter [ after two sons ] . |
| 14 | I mean I wouldn't 've minded if she said come up the house like and she mentioned Cardiff but I 've gone so fat I do n't wan na go ! |
| 15 | ‘ If by that schoolgirl remark you mean I desired to sodomise you , you 're right . |
| 16 | Oh But I mean I get to work I 'm so bloody tired . |
| 17 | You mean I got to send that off ? |
| 18 | The car 's just a practical thing to me , I mean I like to drive around in comfort , everybody likes a nice car , I 'm not saying that , but to go to the extreme of spending what would say , seventy or eighty thousand pounds on a Porsche , I 'd have to be really , really rich before I would consider the luxury of having a Porsche . |
| 19 | I mean I like to see the nappies flapping on the line . |
| 20 | now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did . |
| 21 | I mean I like dancing and music but I like to have a chat with , I ca n't , I ca n't be bothered if I ca n't chat properly because you ca n't hear yourself |
| 22 | And it think that — I mean I like to have , if you go back and look at a Rolling Stone when I was doing it , there are pages in there , I would say one third of all the pages in there , you would not even want to print today . |
| 23 | I I mean I intend to keep my own roof whatever . |
| 24 | I mean I 've said to him answer him back like you would but he , he , the thing is he just thumps them , he just thumps and kicks and hits |
| 25 | Anyway , there we are , erm so I mean there are things like that also er we need to work out how we divvy up the exam fee , I mean I 've said to B A I E but they have n't so far |
| 26 | It 's changing drastically now and and erm er I mean I 've kept up to date with it now |
| 27 | so , I mean we 've erm , I mean I 've developed a relationship with David at Coslow |
| 28 | You 're afraid to ask perhaps for I mean I 've lived in a house with a landlord , the landlord turned the heating down , turned the water heating off on occasions because we were using too much hot water between about four or five of us . |
| 29 | I mean I 've lived in here for the last fourtee thirteen years and I 've lived in Northern Ireland and Bradford and all sorts . |
| 30 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |