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 . |