Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] mean [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And that 's another thing I mean where erm as I got I mean cleaning was sort of a a spring clean was springtime and that was it . |
2 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
3 | And of course it was ages before I knew she meant bruise . |
4 | I thought you meant treat . |
5 | Thought you meant things you did n't mean . ’ |
6 | I thought you meant Teletext . |
7 | But I thought you meant Satan , people usually do . |
8 | They must have wrecked the car to make sure that I understood they meant business . ’ |
9 | They both knew he meant Ireland . |
10 | But when Louis showed his claws , Lothar knew he meant business . |
11 | because you knew he meant business , and he would achieve his end |
12 | When I saw my picture on the front page of the local newspaper I knew it meant trouble . ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | He thought it meant breasts . |
15 | from Gloucester , he thought it meant Glasgow . |
16 | Well , I thought he meant Bournemouth . ’ |
17 | The form of privatisation , normally held to be conversion into a limited company with sale of shares and promise of profits generated from the company 's activities was unclear , but most took it to mean sale at auction . |
18 | And there had been that other message … she had rung Cartier to speak to someone called Michael Watney , only to be told that there was no-one called Michael Watney working there , and did she mean Michael Courteny , and if so , would she hold on ? |
19 | And , most important of all , by freedom did one mean independence ? |
20 | All very well , but did it mean Ferdinando would be taken with them , together with Annunciata ? |
21 | Did he mean Hepzibah was a witch , then ? |
22 | They said it meant death . |
23 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of Darlington Railway Preservation Society , said it meant Darlington had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
24 | And Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , said it meant Darlington had lost the chance of a major tourist attraction . |
25 | Asked to explain , he said he meant Gainsborough , who had been born in Sudbury . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | I supposed she meant Nona . |