Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] not mean " in BNC.
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1 | Oh yeah but I mean no I I do n't mean in general , I mean specific things . |
2 | The irony is that Angus Wilson is , in the best sense , an experimental writer , by which I do not mean that he makes holes in the page or shuffles his paragraphs around . |
3 | ‘ It 's meant to be theatrical , by which I do n't mean lasers and fireworks . |
4 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
5 | By which I do n't mean great fuckers ; we all know about power as an aphrodisiac ( an auto-aphrodisiac too ) . |
6 | Just because they are OK with you it does n't mean you are blind to their inadequacies or view them through rose-coloured spectacles . |
7 | He — it was a man — could tell you what sort of a state she was in — oh lord , that sounds like something I do n't mean . |
8 | I hate to say something I do n't mean , and I had enough sense left to know I might not be prepared to keep my side of the contract tomorrow . |
9 | ‘ I do n't think all that much of humans , ’ said Lydia ; ‘ so when I say one does n't quite look like one I do n't mean it offensively . ’ |
10 | Now if we are going to say that this rolling programme , we we do n't mean this rolling programme because it it 's all going back to committees again to be to be looked at then we are putting our at a disadvantage they will disband and the cost to us for refurbishment will increase . |
11 | Just because he knew about her it did not mean he was at all reliable . |
12 | ‘ I did put my arm around his shoulders at the end and he told me he did not mean anything malicious . |
13 | ‘ Look I told you even if you upset me it does n't mean it 's over . ’ |
14 | I said he he does n't mean any harm I said but he 's a bit nervous , hoping to god he did n't bite the , bite the other one |
15 | Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be . |
16 | ‘ Now , Alan , do n't say what you do n't mean . |
17 | of what we do not mean , up against the skin , |
18 | His characteristic method is to make a statement so large or vague as to be practically meaningless , then to qualify that statement by explaining what he does not mean by it , and finally to outline the reasons why he does not propose to discuss matters arising from it ; he apologizes , at this point , for wandering off course but , instead of clarifying or refining his original proposition , he classifies the arguments of those who might object to it and proceeds to deal with their objections . |
19 | ‘ My lord , the boy is overwrought , he 's saying what he does not mean . |
20 | And Pound had later to explain what he meant , and what he did not mean , by his endorsement of Lewis . |
21 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
22 | what it does n't mean it 's right does it ? |
23 | What it does not mean , except with the more experienced businesses , is that the account is due in 30 days . |
24 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |
25 | ‘ He never said anything he did n't mean . ’ |