Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] meant [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And of course it was ages before I knew she meant bruise . |
2 | I thought you meant treat . |
3 | Thought you meant things you did n't mean . ’ |
4 | I thought you meant Teletext . |
5 | But I thought you meant Satan , people usually do . |
6 | They must have wrecked the car to make sure that I understood they meant business . ’ |
7 | They both knew he meant Ireland . |
8 | But when Louis showed his claws , Lothar knew he meant business . |
9 | because you knew he meant business , and he would achieve his end |
10 | When I saw my picture on the front page of the local newspaper I knew it meant trouble . ’ |
11 | During the day if the whistle blew , she knew it meant death — somebody 's poppa or brother , perhaps her own — in that fearsome place below the ground , the mine . |
12 | He thought it meant breasts . |
13 | from Gloucester , he thought it meant Glasgow . |
14 | Well , I thought he meant Bournemouth . ’ |
15 | They said it meant death . |
16 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of Darlington Railway Preservation Society , said it meant Darlington had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
17 | And Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , said it meant Darlington had lost the chance of a major tourist attraction . |
18 | Asked to explain , he said he meant Gainsborough , who had been born in Sudbury . |
19 | When Mr Alms was contacted by the legal adviser to the breakaway Professional Chess Association , set up by Kasparov and Short , he said he meant reichmarks , a worthless pre-First World War currency . |
20 | I supposed she meant Nona . |