Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Labour , accommodation to the changing mood meant adopting the essentially green idea of assessing the environmental costs of growth and working them into the balance sheets ( which the Tories are also adopting ) , but it did not mean following the Greens in calling for a halt to growth . |
| 2 | It did not mean the burglary was not talked about over Christmas lunch — it certainly was ; it became part of the event , and is now alluded to as ‘ Do you remember when … etc. etc . ’ |
| 3 | As the hacks speculated about the cloud of black smoke that suddenly appeared over the palace roof — it did not mean that no decision had been taken , only that a chimney had caught fire — the President was browsing in his favourite bookshop , Les Arcades , just below The Sunday Telegraph 's Paris office . |
| 4 | They would be in favour of it if it could be worked out in a practical form : but it did not mean they were going to give up the freedom of the seas . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the century , Dudo of St Quentin produced the argument that , since the homage of Duke Rollo of Normandy in 911 had been purely in gratitude for his baptism , it did not mean , either for himself or for his successors , that Normandy was a fief . |
| 6 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 7 | Rachaela and Ruth knew it did not mean anything . |
| 8 | Just because he knew about her it did not mean he was at all reliable . |
| 9 | It was nothing , she protested , it was something she could not control today , it did not mean she thought the less of him , or their sex together . |
| 10 | His anger might be justified , but it did not mean she must be treated like a criminal . |
| 11 | I know the name was McCloy but it did n't mean nothing to me . |
| 12 | Just because of that one incident , it did n't mean we felt Chris 's point of view could never be valid again , ’ says Gedge . |
| 13 | He had had nothing to eat that day at all and had been up quite a lot of the night and now felt a bit dozy , but it did n't mean that he was ill . |
| 14 | It did n't mean he had n't given someone else 's . |
| 15 | Mother-of-four Dawn adds , ‘ Kim and I had a cry together and I told her that just because I loved Colin , it did n't mean I 'd stopped loving her . ’ |
| 16 | It did n't mean anything at all . ’ |
| 17 | But although I hated inequality , it did n't mean I wanted to be treated like everyone else . |
| 18 | It did n't mean anything , not really . |
| 19 | ‘ Lyrically it did n't mean anything to me , but the guitars and solos , the bass … ah ! |
| 20 | But it did n't mean anything . |
| 21 | I 'm afraid it did n't mean anything to me at the time . |
| 22 | Hari sat down and put her basket on the floor , pushing back the white cloth , she was well used to the way Cleg and his wife carried on , it did n't mean a thing . |
| 23 | But sexy and single did n't mean equal , and it did n't mean independent . |
| 24 | He was an outcast among outcasts and proud of it ; it did n't mean he had to believe in all the mumbo-jumbo . |
| 25 | And it did n't mean rum . |
| 26 | Just because the land was generous and never left them seriously hungry , it did n't mean they were ever relieved of their relentless toil . |
| 27 | Although the move was probably inspired by the fighting , it did n't mean that we would n't be going home soon . |
| 28 | He annoyed me , it did n't mean anything to him , and he made it clear in his miserable I'll-take-your-word-for-it way that he did n't really care . |
| 29 | It did n't mean anything to Kaas , everyone had their own secrets . |
| 30 | When St Paul told the Christians in Philippi that he had learnt to be content , he did n't mean that he was smug ; it did n't mean that he had been well fed and could put his feet up . |