Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards . |
| 2 | But erm , what I did mean to bring in was th was the that our parents and er our er older erm inhabitants who appreciated the cigarettes and them sort of things . |
| 3 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
| 4 | On a version such as Hare 's , which does not incorporate a representative theory of perception , there will be a comparable implication : if things had not , in the past , looked to me as this now looks , I could not mean by ‘ This looks white ’ what I do mean . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's exactly what I do mean . |
| 6 | Carrie was n't sure what she did mean . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't mean … you know … ’ she said feebly , and the waif-like expression on her strained face made it difficult to grasp immediately what she did mean . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't mean we should get to know each other — ’ She broke off , not sure what she did mean when he looked at her in such open invitation . |
| 9 | ‘ But I did n't mean — I meant — ’ She floundered in a sea of confusion , not sure now , in the face of his implacable logic , what she did mean . |
| 10 | Neither dark nor dumb ceremonies , but … so set forth that every man may understand what they do mean , and to what use they do serve . |
| 11 | A dispute over what they do mean is , in principle , like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute . |
| 12 | But what he does mean by it can not be identified , at least in any simple way , with the actual beliefs or attitudes which caused it . |
| 13 | He paused , seemingly at a loss to say what he did mean . |
| 14 | What it does mean is that he had made it plain that he intended a legal relationship to exist between two persons ( soon to become trustee and beneficiary ) . |
| 15 | What it does mean is that , if the manager adopts a very warm socio-emotional managerial style , then an informal or unofficial task-leader role may emerge in the work group . |
| 16 | What it does mean is that each employer will identify a specific number of vacancies which will be reserved for Compact graduates before being offered more widely . |
| 17 | What it does mean is committing to actions to achieve the team 's vision of excellence . |
| 18 | What it does mean , however , is that you retain the right both to say " no " and to have that " no " totally respected . |
| 19 | This is not to say that man can mine coal where it does not occur geologically , or that some settlements do not originate because of the existence of some material which the inhabitants extract ; what it does mean is that people themselves determine what is exploited and how they deal with the extraction . |
| 20 | what it does mean . |
| 21 | What it did mean was that the presence of the killer pack effectively cut off that particular escape route if it were needed . |