Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] not mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because you 're older than me does n't mean you know everything . |
| 2 | By that I do n't mean like a sonnet or something , but concise . |
| 3 | By that I do n't mean like a sonnet or something , but concise . ’ |
| 4 | By that I do n't mean he could n't have been responsible for their deaths , I just mean that I do n't think he 's on speaking terms with his conscience . |
| 5 | By that I do n't mean they 've left the prison ; I mean they 're dead . |
| 6 | When we say that I do n't mean whether it 's a four or three bedroom house , I mean the sort of location it would be in , whether it would be a middle of a terrace or a middle of a string of houses , on the corner of a street or whether it would be on its own in the country somewhere or whether the back garden would back on to some playing fields or er the railway line or whether there 'd be houses at the back . |
| 7 | By that I do not mean than one can not pin them down to set feeding patterns on specific waters . |
| 8 | By that I do not mean simply that Christianity arose at a certain time in history . |
| 9 | Suffice it here to note that I do not mean that all religions are really saying the same thing ; that differences do not matter , that they all have basically the same origins , or fulfil the same functions . |
| 10 | All the time , I was shouting at him saying he was telling lies , I was trying to give him signs that I did n't mean it , and he told me he saw that . ’ |
| 11 | The next moment she jumped up , almost angrily , as though she had been trapped into a softness that she did not mean . |
| 12 | I just do n't want you having to face the pater only to find that she did n't mean half she said . |
| 13 | Playing hard to get , I thought , but it was obvious to me that she did n't mean it . |
| 14 | She laughed and touched Harvey 's arm to show that she did n't mean it . |
| 15 | When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’ |
| 16 | Children learn the " hidden " curriculum very quickly — in this case that you do n't mean what you say ! |
| 17 | At last he said , ‘ Your letter told me that you did n't mean it when you said you hated me . |
| 18 | That you did not mean what you said to me that day . ’ |
| 19 | Are you saying that they did n't mean what they said then ? |
| 20 | in order to ha to achieve one 's goals , are you saying that how look well you 've just got to assume that they were wrong that they did n't mean what they said ? |
| 21 | They note in using the term " sufficient condition " that they do not mean that the condition-set is genuinely sufficient for the occurrence of the effect . |
| 22 | Maybe it lasted half an hour , that sleep , it could n't have been longer because there was still no daylight when I was woken , although he did n't mean to wake me . |
| 23 | I mean , I mean , lots of different pupils would say that it does n't mean anything in the end because erm you know , what are we here for , what can we do , you know , and like why you know , I mean I , I 'm sure it does n't mean very much . |
| 24 | Between disquisitions on Chinese opera and Venetian architecture , the story of Marco Polo 's voyage from Venice to Peking is more or less retold , though the narrative is continually being brought to a halt in moments when it half-realises that it does not mean enough . |
| 25 | His view of this " delirious " material ( note the etymology of délire ) is that it breaks the rules of language ( grammar , syntax , semantic cohesion ) but that it does not mean nothing . |
| 26 | Even now that she had been made a director of the firm , Laura was well aware that it did n't mean that she had a job for life . |
| 27 | In one dispute he is twice quoted as saying , on different occasions , ‘ we intend , nor will none otherwise do at any time , but according to the king 's laws ’ — and there is no reason to suppose that he did not mean it . |
| 28 | In those circumstances , he could not argue that he did not mean to obstruct , or that he was unaware that his conduct was obstructing . |
| 29 | In one dispute he is twice quoted as saying , on different occasions , ‘ we intend , nor will none otherwise do at any time , but according to the king 's laws ’ — and there is no reason to suppose that he did not mean it . |
| 30 | Even under such circumstances , he was not a person to blurt out words that he did not mean . |