Example sentences of "[noun sg] i mean [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that 's no excuse I mean Sparkie I 'd come here , all the time , well Iris has a I mean |
| 2 | It 's O K if your headmasters that run the school change I mean schools tend to change with headmasters do n't they ? |
| 3 | you may even and this is a bit I mean Saturday lunchtime is a bit I 'm almost almost er oh the producer 's going , Careful careful , which he should know is a red flag to a bull and I might say no but I wo n't . |
| 4 | Is that the telephone 's fault d' ya think or is that fault I mean salesman coming in as well . |
| 5 | I , I , I could n't really give a figure I mean Mr he , he would 've soon told you , the manager down below . |
| 6 | ( Incidentally , by editor I mean programme or news editor . |
| 7 | All that had its 1930s precursors , such as the early fiction of George Orwell and Graham Greene ; and in an open letter to Elizabeth Bowen , written several years before the Movement was ever heard of , Greene had remarked that the novelist has a simple duty to tell the truth and to get it right : ‘ By truth I mean accuracy — it is largely a matter of style ’ . |
| 8 | I suppose I could if I could pull the machine out and were , were the pipe goes over into the waste I mean people do that in the Isle of Wight are n't they , were they 've got to , need |
| 9 | Why do n't you say to them that they each organisation I mean H M S O and have ten minutes each for a presentation |
| 10 | Did he tell you that he 'd been at flat I mean years before or near the date of this or what ? |
| 11 | with alcohol I mean alcohol is so much a part of the establishment of Oxford . |
| 12 | By invention I mean behaviour , values , beliefs , and so on , that come at out through ‘ internal ’ processes of thinking and working out rather than through imitating or mechanically responding to external stimuli . |
| 13 | These , these were , these were comparatively small er wars , I mean the Falklands was an absolute I mean farce really , it was n't a serious |
| 14 | There 's all the difference between live and being I Mean being time and being in God . |
| 15 | Exactly yes we 'll take a breathing space until the new year I mean Neil says that at the moment he 'd be quite happy to get into a job where if he was a good worker he could progress in the job and I said an what about doing your radio repairs in the evening , but he just , he said yes . |
| 16 | But I mean I think the feeling of the the miners were out for a year I mean time and time again I 've heard people say , Oh how d how do they do it and look at the money they 're sending us and look at what they 're doing for us and how ho . |
| 17 | Porta Man Curit I mean Bwangdirola |
| 18 | You cos you know Bonnie yeah , sh she erm got offered a er job in Glitters in Camden yeah it 's a shop in Camden , and sh she told Honey and Dan about it yeah and the next thing she knows yeah like the next day , she 's talking to Dan and Honey and Honey comes out and says oh I went down to Glitters and asked for a job right said right to Honey 's face I mean Bonnie 's face . |
| 19 | As a matter of fact , that what they were lacking in and we er we had a driller and er we had a driller and er horizontal lather for turning and a grinder , when I say grinder I mean emery wheel , and that 's about all we 'd got in the shop . |