Example sentences of "i mean the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By ‘ modernity ’ I mean the ephemeral , the fugitive , the contingent , the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable . |
| 2 | I mean the most exciting moment of all is when you are actually chosen for a part — after that initial excitement it 's a bit downhill — not because the work is n't marvellous but because the first challenge is the peak . |
| 3 | From evidence available this week , by which I mean the remarkable feats of sharp reflex and well-practised agility Peter Shilton performed against Poland in a crucial World Cup qualifying tie in Chorzow , England ought not to embark for Italy next summer without first packing trench tools and barbed wire , while giving some serious attention to the laying of mines in their penalty area . |
| 4 | Those bastards , I do n't mean the squareheaded bastards across the fields , I mean the bastards who are sending all this shit over our heads all the time . ’ |
| 5 | I mean the whole thing is wrong , the reconstruction , the theory behind it . |
| 6 | Be aware of what is happening all over the world , but for goodness sake do n't allow the market — by which I mean the City — to guide the destiny of your company . |
| 7 | But if the cheering at the end on Thursday evening — and I mean the cheering from upstairs , which is what matters — is a portent , then Kenneth MacMillan 's Prince Of The Pagodas is a success . |
| 8 | Which reminds me that the Jocks — I mean the real guardsmen who arrived from England this morning to make up the complement , not you phoney chaps , are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon . |
| 9 | By environment I mean the mood , the atmosphere of the campaign , its tone and the preoccupations Of the voters . |
| 10 | I mean the rope and sit on the chair . |
| 11 | I mean the unleashed growth and expansion without regard to natural balance . |
| 12 | I mean the English people I 've met here ( and one or two Scots ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Have you been seeing them , I mean the family ? ’ |
| 14 | It 's the mice everyone seems to go for , I mean the children . ’ |
| 15 | The fella in here 's usually a bit starchy , I mean the young 'un , not the old one , not the manager like . ’ |
| 16 | I did try and help her about how to run a war because it 's such a long time since anybody 's run a war — I mean the technical methods of running a war — which she did very well . |
| 17 | Hellen has remained my favourite gourmet cook ever since , by which I mean the last 38 years . |
| 18 | I mean the point would be to give it that kind of pzazz that the young kids love so much . |
| 19 | They were two guys who had come up through Play School and Trumpton as well , I mean the commercials were fairly far out , Windy Miller 's head falls off when he eats the wrong bread or something like that . |
| 20 | But actually I mean the stretch all-in-one which has metamorphosed from underwear into the essential t-shirt . |
| 21 | ‘ No , I mean the dog . |
| 22 | By design I mean the shapes of the individual pieces and finished look while the reason for stocking stitch is that colour is often the only finishing touch a garment needs — texture and colour work sometimes but not always . |
| 23 | ‘ By that , I mean the biggest club left to realise its potential . ’ |
| 24 | He admitted that it saddened him to realise that ‘ my youth is gone — not my love of life or my energy , but I mean the time when one feels so lighthearted and carefree . ’ |
| 25 | By the pragmatics of pedagogy , I mean the working out of a reflexive , interdependent relationship between theory and practice , between abstract ideas deriving from various areas of enquiry and their actualization in the achievement of practical outcomes . |
| 26 | By this I mean the potential of an item to generate further learning . |
| 27 | By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability . |
| 28 | By ‘ indexical ’ I mean the function which is attributed to the linguistic sign by the language user when it occurs in context . |
| 29 | ‘ No , I mean the very opposite , he 'd care too much . |
| 30 | ‘ I mean the reverse of Hitler . |