Example sentences of "[noun sg] i mean [art] " in BNC.

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1 Yes I mean if it is possible to provide that huge acreage I mean the space per player or whatever is rather less for croquet than for cricket , is n't it ?
2 Do you know the story I mean the parable I mean ?
3 Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know
4 well he was a bit of a slave driver I mean every body
5 No and just have a look at the computer I mean the printer that 's about half a metre long .
6 Well it sounds blissful , but of course I mean a lot of terrible things happen in the name of love including crimes , crimes of passion as there romantically called in France , I mean people have killed for love , yes .
7 are very brief and there , there , there commission have done almost pro forma , but er , well of course I mean a , erm , erm
8 Well of course I mean the the point there is
9 Yes , well when I say stand still budget I mean a stand still on the basis of of saying that there will be no increase in incoming work .
10 By future I mean a couple of seasons from now , the current season although not a write off by any means has lost a lot of meaning the league appears once again to be going to the scum and we 're out of the League cup thingy .
11 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 .
12 But in a sense I mean I can erm I mean I agree with everything you 've said , erm but er when Murdoch took over the Sun I mean the Sun was selling , at one point was selling about four million copies which is
13 Erm and provide the freebie I mean the the the cages , the giveaway
14 He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it .
15 ‘ At that moment I meant every word , ’ she admitted candidly .
16 she does n't seem the type that would be a school teacher I mean the erm that erm seven , eight year old that she teaches and I just think what she 's like at school .
17 I mean when one starts to , to scratch the surface , let me just give one example I mean we feel er I M R O fails on on its membership I mean the fact that you had Bishopsgate Investment Management which was the beneficial owner was an organisation in Liechtenstein .
18 Do to make more room I mean the furniture was much less monumental than ours is if you see what I mean .
19 As a group I mean the other thing that surprised me a bit , I , I spoke to Ken yesterday and said , how did you receive ?
20 It 's a lellow I mean a yellow tie .
21 It 's all about technical stuff I mean a lot of you do technical training .
22 But there was a degree of intelligence and the Newfoundland of course is er spectacular dog , particularly in water I mean the Irish Water Spaniel 's pretty good in water so as a
23 No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable .
24 I also aimed at another thing which people consider Italian I mean a certain squareness and horizontality of outline .
25 For example I mean the one thing about the Europe that the Eastbourne electorate apparently ah understood erm was I 'm sorry the Christchurch electorate understood , was a social contract .
26 I had them all the week I mean a ladder I mean it 'll cost you that much again
27 By environment I mean the mood , the atmosphere of the campaign , its tone and the preoccupations Of the voters .
28 I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic .
29 But by the detective novel I mean a book in which the puzzle element is reduced and in which the characters are a good deal more lifelike than those which the blueprint puzzle merchants needed and in which the element of character drawing is given much more weight .
30 By restricted professionality I mean a professionality which is intuitive , classroom-focused , and based on experience rather than theory .
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