Example sentences of "meant [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hot water was available but it meant vying for position in the kitchen with those cooking breakfast and making tea . |
| 2 | This also meant searching for remains on offshore islands , reached by kayak through seas teeming with porpoises , albatrosses , sea lions and jackass penguins . |
| 3 | He did not object to fulfilling her ‘ romantic notions about this and that ’ if it meant searching for a butter churn and separator but he drew the line at finding her a hacking pony . |
| 4 | Freeing the study of politics from its ‘ structural overtones ’ , as Almond put it , not only meant searching for the familiar functions of government in unfamiliar social structures ( such as administration by age sets ) . |
| 5 | Exposing them meant asking for it : whistles , pinches , rape . |