Example sentences of "[pron] mean you can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't have to read the book , it 's rubbish , but I mean you can just say , if you remember the title , The Imperial Presidency , here was a view that the presidency had become dominant , the presidency had grown out of all proportion to the intentions of the founding fathers and needed to be reined back . |
| 2 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 3 | So erm I mean you can just use coloured spots it in , I mean , those at the moment are just literally stage spots , all they are i are on , and on dim |
| 4 | Oh yeah , but I mean you can soon sort of make it so that it 's er |
| 5 | So er I mean you can actually say to your children , well okay you know if I , we die tomorrow in a road accident , there 'd be a liability to tax , erm and say the estate 's worth two hundred thousand , then fifty thousand would be liable to tax at forty pence in the pound , so there 'd be twenty thousand pound debt to pay to the revenue . |
| 6 | I mean you can still get a reference off me old company which er you know the London |
| 7 | I mean I think if you 're not sure whether you want whether you 'll be able to go I mean you can still you can still be a delegate then if you do go then you 're able to vote so . |
| 8 | Well I du n no I mean you can still be you can stay at my place . |
| 9 | but , but I mean you can only make it worse by like you say , you 're wasting your own time and money |
| 10 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 11 | ‘ Only because you Americans insist on fighting among yourselves , ’ said Dr Neil , and began to whistle ‘ Dixie ’ , ‘ which means you can never lose … so there ! ’ |
| 12 | Meetings now on Thursdays , which means you can still attend practices at the First Aid Post on Wednesdays . ’ |
| 13 | When we pointed the ending out to them , some said " You mean you can sometimes tell what a chapter is about by looking at the end " and others said " 0 Lord , how many times have I been told ! " |
| 14 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |