Example sentences of "means he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You come down 'ere now , Sergeant Joe wants a word with yer , and if it means 'e 's goin' to knock yer 'ead off , I 'll give 'im an 'and . ’ |
| 2 | He has stayed to deal with them , but still believes God means him to go at some point . |
| 3 | To have advanced within the job and achieved rank means he is likely to have followed and supported institutional precedents without question , and to have unwittingly accepted and been involved in the reproduction of the narrow modes of thought and practice demanded by the culture . |
| 4 | ‘ He means he wants to stay in bed with Mary . ’ |
| 5 | And the extra reward is that if a dog learns to sit when he sees a child , it means he does n't jump up . |
| 6 | Initially , in November , which is three months after Stavrogin was quoting Hamlet , Kirillov 's ‘ ROLE IS A FACTUAL ONE ’ — by which Dostoevsky means he ‘ volunteered to shoot himself for the common cause ’ and leave a letter claiming responsibility for Shatov 's murder , thus diverting the attention of the police from Peter Verkhovensky and the quintet . |
| 7 | After Wentworth he will play two tournaments in Japan which means he will also miss the World Cup in his home country . |
| 8 | This means he is banned from attending any form of racing in Britain , including point-to-points . |
| 9 | He believed nothing should stand in the way of the security of the United States , and was less choosy than Congress about what means he took to preserve it . |
| 10 | He says he wants a compromise acceptable to Britain and its partners — which means he does not want to stop other countries moving towards EMU . |
| 11 | Narasimha Rao , is a former foreign minister whose ill-health means he can not hope to become a permanent head of the party . |
| 12 | For his part , Mr Major , who feels the isolation from people that is an inevitable consequence of his position , is pleased to have contact , even if it means he is the occasional target of thrown eggs . |
| 13 | His canny bank manager approach probably means he will hasten slowly but prepare for some stand-offs with his civil servants and possibly with the chairman of British Rail too . |
| 14 | The main offenders here are non-indigenous natives who have cleared areas ad acres of the best soil , farming it very poorly and working it as though it were a private farm … there is no rotation of crops and no manure applied which means he will soon be looking for another 100 acres of good soil to ruin . |
| 15 | Seve 's drive was 50 yards from the front of the green and about 40 yards from the middle of the Open course fairway , but he was on the right side — do n't forget all his careful planning on studying the rough beforehand — which means he 's now coming back into the wind . |
| 16 | His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about . |
| 17 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 18 | It also means he has a plan and the power to see that his plan is implemented . |
| 19 | Joe 's behaviour can also be s\described as mildly odd : his fear of returning to prison shows in his encouragement of the local children to play policeman games , telling them he will put bad boys into his private jail , and a sense of contrition over the faulty aircraft parts means he can not bear having anything the house that ought to be thrown away . |
| 20 | That means he does n't really want to . |
| 21 | Ever eager to please , he 'll fetch anything owner Robert Langton chooses — especially if it means he can climb a ladder to get there . |
| 22 | He comes , which means he 's here all the time but I just do n't tune in . |
| 23 | Inevitably , that means he will have to be meddlesome . |
| 24 | And that means he does n't get a look in with the beautiful Roxane . |
| 25 | It means he will serve three . |
| 26 | That means he can not meet the next payment on his van and could lose his whole business . |
| 27 | Influenza , on top of two previous leg injuries , means he misses the Barbarians ' festive extravaganza at Leicester today . |
| 28 | Ankle ligament damage has kept Sterland out since the end of last season and another setback means he may not return for weeks . |
| 29 | Wattana 's win means he has assumed World Series favourite status from Parrott , who began the day with a two-point lead after events in Beijing , Motherwell and Antwerp . |
| 30 | ‘ Rickie may have stopped his cocaine a day or two ago , which means he 's probably already over the crash period . |