Example sentences of "mean [pron] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but I mean yours is a big school now is n't it ? |
| 2 | I mean I am a mere officer who advises the Council , Bill , as you know . |
| 3 | I 'm with you yeah , see Sam 's got some learning , when he comes to spellings to me , again I would , I would print yeah , he only scrawled that down last night , he says I 've got some spellings on sports mum , I said do you know any of 'em ? , he said no , I said when 's you test ? , he says Friday , well I got ta book on all sports and then I read it because sports and you think hockey 's one of them , oh yeah , racket , which is spelt wrong I 've had to , I think it 's got a U in , but again I mean sometimes , I mean I 'm a good speller , I do n't know about you , but I look at them sometimes and I have to go and get the dictionary have to check em |
| 4 | What d' ya think they but I mean , well , I mean I 'm a little bit out of touch on that sort of |
| 5 | ‘ You mean you 're a workaholic , you ca n't resist the temptation . |
| 6 | And I mean she 's a good kid , she is n't a bad kid by any means but er , oh the late nights and er |
| 7 | between the ears I mean she 's a charming woman . |
| 8 | She lo , I mean she 's a lovely girl though ! |
| 9 | So erm Miss , I mean she 's an easy case to do really , |
| 10 | But , I mean we 're a long way from that , and I do n't want people to think that I 'm from saying er redundancies are imminent , er |
| 11 | I mean we 're a typical case , we believe we have something that is wonderfully innovative and capable of succeeding financially in a global market place . |
| 12 | featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator |
| 13 | You mean we were the eldest for five years there |
| 14 | I mean we were the first show to put Demis Roussos on . |
| 15 | The problem is I think it 's the I mean there is a private security firm in there at the moment , perhaps they 'll remain till eventually it 's all done . |
| 16 | I mean there is a real sense in which species selection just does n't make sense in this kind of context . |
| 17 | Now Darwin got from this this idea that somehow sudden things are miraculous , are natural , erm but admittedly they may happen but I mean there is a miraculous element about sudden things , whereas things that are natural should happen gradually , and he retained this view in spite of changing his ideas about all sorts of other things , and let us now see why the gradualism was so important a component of his theory of evolution . |
| 18 | Awareness of Irish acts such as U2 and Sinead O'Connor mean there is a particular receptivity to Irish music . |
| 19 | I mean there 's no earthly use doing a beautiful piece of evaluation erm which no one wants to know about , and publishing something that has no effect . |
| 20 | I mean there 's no earthly use doing a beautiful piece of evaluation erm which no-one wants to know about at the end , or publishing something that has no affect . |
| 21 | I mean there 's no huge hurry for those , is there , really at the moment so ? |
| 22 | I 'm not gon na spend a I mean there 's a good couple of hours talking here and w I 'm gon na use the time more productively I think talking about other aspects of the course . |
| 23 | I mean there 's a strong Music Department here and we have a number of music students who come into the chorus for the while that they 're in the university — they often sing in the university choir , I think , as well and play in the orchestra , or perhaps the Meeting House Choir , and a number of members of faculty , I think , as well sing with us . |
| 24 | we we , we were hearing from Jenny about the government , but we we must look into other parties I mean there 's a general election going to be coming off soon , we , we as carers should be looking into who is going to benefit us . |
| 25 | erm the best candidate for that kind of deposit are deep see cores — I mean there 's a continuous rain of stuff falling from the surface of the sea to the bottom of the sea and forming a great sort of ooze on the bottom and gradually compacting down into rock — cores of this stuff are now available and palaeontologists can look and see what happens . |
| 26 | I 'm I 'm winding you up a little bit but no I mean there 's a little method in this . |
| 27 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 28 | I mean there 's a whole range of exclamations that , bless me , or bless me as we would say . |
| 29 | Well I mean there 's a yellow streak all the same , all the way up there look . |
| 30 | That 's right , I mean there 's a grey area between |