Example sentences of "[pers pn] mean a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean a free press which is edited by one of my relatives . |
| 2 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 3 | By ‘ hardness ’ I mean a quality which is in poetry nearly always a virtue — I can think of no case where it is not . |
| 4 | In the Lyttelton , it 's such a thrill to see Alan Bennett blossom in another line of work , by which I mean a full-length piece like The Madness of George III . |
| 5 | And I mean a long time ! ’ |
| 6 | I also aimed at another thing which people consider Italian I mean a certain squareness and horizontality of outline . |
| 7 | By ‘ vision ’ I mean a statement of long-term purpose . |
| 8 | By ‘ total ’ I mean a system with everything the fishkeeper is ever likely to need incorporated in it . |
| 9 | Try taking a holiday ( I mean a real holiday ; do n't toss the mobile phone and a few unfinished reports into the suitcase with your flip-flops ) and see if you feel better away from it all . |
| 10 | By medium thickness , I mean a yarn that knits stocking stitch at tension four to six on your machine . |
| 11 | Everyone , I 'm sure , has a ‘ little black dress ’ type of pattern , by which I mean a perennial favourite that gets made up in different yarns and colours over the years for various celebrations , parties and so on . |
| 12 | Peering into the tank using a strong eye-glass I could only see a few fry and I mean a few . |
| 13 | You know , you should stay at home and have at least eight babies — it 's incredibly difficult , I mean a lot of parents would disagree whole heartedly with what I tell the girls . |
| 14 | To , to Angie you know , I mean a , were alright , we 've got plenty of local issues , but I mean when we think of the , the big issues , these are the big issues that need to be looked into . |
| 15 | I mean a visit to the council to find out exactly what they do take would be |
| 16 | If the opportunity was n't there , and by that I mean a realistic chance of winning the Championship , then I would n't be racing in Formula One any more . |
| 17 | By " good " , I mean a dictionary like the Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary , or the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 18 | By the public sector I do not mean primarily the state ; I mean a system of popular control within which producers and users ( or consumers ) would , as appropriate , share in policy- and decision-making . |
| 19 | jaundiced , jaundiced activist shall I call myself I mean a point of view mentioned recognition of the River Authorities , I mean erm the latest pay awards I mean we have n't had too much to gloat about have we ? this , this is what the m this is what we can do for the members . |
| 20 | You know , I mean a , a springboard for running for er president is being being governor . |
| 21 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 22 | ‘ Has anyone done your portrait , I mean a modern painter ? ’ |
| 23 | By restricted professionality I mean a professionality which is intuitive , classroom-focused , and based on experience rather than theory . |
| 24 | But by the detective novel I mean a book in which the puzzle element is reduced and in which the characters are a good deal more lifelike than those which the blueprint puzzle merchants needed and in which the element of character drawing is given much more weight . |
| 25 | So , I mean a a true real example is you get drunk men in a pub |
| 26 | Did it involve th , I mean a spray can or er |
| 27 | Well it sounds blissful , but of course I mean a lot of terrible things happen in the name of love including crimes , crimes of passion as there romantically called in France , I mean people have killed for love , yes . |
| 28 | Yeah but I ta when I think love I mean a women to women thing but it 's not erm lesbianism or |
| 29 | It 's not just surrogacy , of course , that costs , I mean a a a lot of er |
| 30 | And er I think , I I agree , I agree with a lot of the demands that feminist women have made but , to kind of congregate it in that way , it 's bu , I mean a lot of wha er , white feminists have been attacked for excluding black women , and that 's one of the examples where you know , to be , to say that you 're a feminist , it 's not just men that you 're alienating , you 're also alienating other way . |