Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] by this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean by this not merely that it can be represented mathematically , but that , such is its concern with the quantitative aspects of reality that it consigns all the qualitative content in our conception of the world to the realm of conscious experience . |
| 2 | I mean by this attitudes of wonder , reverence and awe , as we contemplate the beauty of the universe and note the fragility of its life-systems . |
| 3 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 4 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 5 | And er the diesel pumps were n't on and er there was a couple of guys putting on breathing apparatus and trying to get in to restart them , but I mean by this stage the smoke was so thick they could n't even find where the pumps were . |
| 6 | What I mean by this is the prevalence of the assumption that religion does not matter because it is not true — it is an illusion . |
| 7 | Because that 's really erm a part of what I mean by this criterion . |
| 8 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 9 | I hoped , though , that you would n't mind if I stopped by this morning ? |
| 10 | I think by this time they must be dreading the thought of another signal from the Ariadne . |
| 11 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
| 12 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 13 | ‘ Am I shocked by this decision ? |
| 14 | If she thought by this means she might bend me to her will , she was as mistaken as you are now . |
| 15 | What do you mean by this ? |
| 16 | ‘ Come , Biddy , what do you mean by this silence ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You knew by this time ? |
| 18 | Franca , now gathered into Marcus 's attempt , was saying in her mind , Oh let it be all right , let it be all right , not sure what she meant by this , whether that Marcus should revive Patrick , or whether simply that Marcus should ‘ get away ’ without some positive disgrace , some catastrophe or shameful happening . |
| 19 | I did n't understand what she meant by this but she smiled and asked if I would like to go to the ‘ flicks ’ the following Saturday . |
| 20 | ‘ But on the whole I 'm an autodidact , ’ said Constance , fairly confident that Clarissa would n't have a clue what she meant by this . |
| 21 | Lucien had no idea what she meant by this . |
| 22 | I could n't work out what she meant by this . |
| 23 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 24 | ‘ How do you come by this wisdom about duels ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ How on earth did you come by this ? ’ |
| 26 | What we mean by this , is that at times of great stress we can all be overwhelmed by the experience and find ourselves ‘ at sea ’ , not knowing what to do . |
| 27 | As we go on in our faith , we may be led into areas ‘ beyond reason ’ , but what we mean by this is beyond humanly discernible reasons and not in any sense against reason . |
| 28 | We could do worse than try to reach some understanding in the lesbian and gay communities of what we mean by this question . |
| 29 | What we mean by this is that when the pupils feel themselves put down , treated without ‘ seriousness ’ , they behave in such a way as to restore themselves to the status of mature beings . |
| 30 | We mean by this that alien or foreign ways of life are not only treated as odd , they are also very threatening , especially when actually present in the country . |