Example sentences of "[pers pn] mean tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I mean tell me in more depth how it works |
| 2 | I mean tell me what you do with yourself Alison . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You mean to tell me , Peter , that you 've always been aware of this spate of ‘ reprisals ’ on officials of the fallen Government ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You — you mean to tell me that you left the area to come to our aid ? ’ |
| 6 | ( On first hearing of Aviv 's findings , Plaskett reportedly exclaimed : ‘ You mean to tell me the CIA has been using Pan Am planes to run drugs ? |
| 7 | ‘ You mean to tell me that 's what started this whole fiasco off ? |
| 8 | ‘ You mean to tell me we 're sharing a room ? ’ |
| 9 | He confirmed this impression by asking in tones rank with disbelief , ‘ You mean to tell me you thought you were pursuing a poor man ? ’ |
| 10 | We ca n't even , you mean to tell me there 's all these bombs keep going off wi it did n't , if it had happened in France police carry bloody guns |
| 11 | and you mean to tell me with all that equipment the machine that they 've got at the college , you could n't get it done there ? |
| 12 | ‘ D' you mean to tell me she 's in the Wrens ? ’ |
| 13 | Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ? |
| 14 | ‘ D' you mean to tell me that this is the first time you 've slept with anyone ? ’ he asked incredulously . |
| 15 | Do you mean to tell me that the girls ask you for such stuff as you have been reading ? |
| 16 | Do you mean to tell me that people actually walk about naked on all the beaches and no one complains ? ’ |
| 17 | Do you mean to tell me your mother and father never discussed that last accident with you ? ’ |