Example sentences of "mean they would [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they would n't want to listen to the music I do n't think |
| 2 | Well no I just wondered if you 've had your own telly and you 've just got it private you know , I mean they would n't have no records |
| 3 | Ya , I mean they would n't mix with the likes of us ! |
| 4 | I mean they ai n't sort of I mean what they could force you to do if they really , I mean they would never do that but what they could force you to do or Les to do would be to check with all those people who I 've actually sort of made payments to , to make sure that I have . |
| 5 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 6 | Fiendishly complex and built to proprietary standards — which meant they would not work with rival machines — those mainframes locked corporate customers into a lifetime of IBM systems , software and service contracts . |
| 7 | In the course of our case studies , we found that programmers/analysts capable of working in certain specific software/hardware areas ( for example , IBM System 38 , PICK ) were extremely scarce , in some cases so much so that " nobody is training them any more " ( since high turnover rates meant they would not have the chance to amortise the training investment ) . |
| 8 | If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know . |