Example sentences of "[verb] not mean [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the five who rejected the appeal over the beating of a seven-year-old boy in an English boarding school stressed that that did not mean they condoned corporal punishment in principle . |
| 2 | This ignored , or misunderstood , the regular complaint of employers about the lack of good workmen , which did not mean they required ‘ skilled ’ workers , who were always available ; what they required were efficient workers . |
| 3 | You did not mean it to happen this time . |
| 4 | Underneath it all , Markby suspected , Simon was badly frightened at the result of his action — but that did not mean he had not intended to do it . |
| 5 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 6 | This did not mean he did not know . |
| 7 | It was nothing , she protested , it was something she could not control today , it did not mean she thought the less of him , or their sex together . |
| 8 | As Cohen ( 1984 : 227 ) points out : ‘ by detachment I do not mean we have to distance ourselves emotionally ; that I think would be perverse . |
| 9 | I did n't mean her to run off and get lost . |
| 10 | ‘ And I really did n't mean her to run off like that . |
| 11 | And although many of them might be poor in some ways , that did n't mean they had no money to spend . |
| 12 | Certainly we had been given dominion over them , but that did n't mean we had to go cramming their little corpses down our necks like there 's no tomorrow when soya beans and wheat mountains rise up from Mother Earth like a sign saying : Meat is Murter . |
| 13 | Just because of that one incident , it did n't mean we felt Chris 's point of view could never be valid again , ’ says Gedge . |
| 14 | ‘ We did n't mean it to happen . ’ |
| 15 | I did n't mean it to happen this way . ’ |
| 16 | He had n't done a bad job of dictating her actions so far but that did n't mean it had to continue . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't mean it to sound like that . ’ |
| 18 | Sorry , I did n't mean it to sound that way . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't mean it to sound that way , ’ Ruth huffed . |
| 20 | I did n't mean it to sound like that — that I 'd stopped loving you and was falling again . ’ |
| 21 | I did n't mean it to go the way it did . |
| 22 | It did n't mean he had n't given someone else 's . |
| 23 | He was an outcast among outcasts and proud of it ; it did n't mean he had to believe in all the mumbo-jumbo . |
| 24 | Brian Close showed no fear , but that did n't mean he did n't feel any . |
| 25 | ‘ Just because I was n't in the team that day did n't mean I felt any less embarrassed by the result . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember , but that did n't mean I expected you to freeze to death . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I would be , if it did n't mean I had to see you , as well ! ’ |
| 28 | No , I did n't mean I meant about wanting soda water ? ’ |
| 29 | Mother-of-four Dawn adds , ‘ Kim and I had a cry together and I told her that just because I loved Colin , it did n't mean I 'd stopped loving her . ’ |
| 30 | But although I hated inequality , it did n't mean I wanted to be treated like everyone else . |