Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] n't [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She does n't really mean it , ’ Robert defended Dawn reluctantly . |
| 2 | Having gone through all the arguments such as ‘ he does n't really mean it ’ , and ‘ he loves me really ’ , she finally leaves with the support of the police , particularly the WPC . |
| 3 | He does n't really mean that elephants do n't need an explanation ; rather that he is satisfied that biologists can explain elephants , provided they are allowed to take certain facts of physics for granted . |
| 4 | It may be that what he 's said in court is purely something to get back at you and he does n't really mean it . |
| 5 | It is a big job , it does n't just mean changing the colour of your stock , er , and it 's difficult to think of erm , er , Alan wearing the purple so to say , but erm , I 'm sure he , I went to his consecration in York about two months ago , it was a very moving and er , enjoyable occasion and he 's erm , er , now entered upon that inheritance . |
| 6 | It does n't just mean that he loved a mass of humani , he does that , but he does n't love the mass as a mass , he loves the mass as individuals , one by one , God loves you ! |
| 7 | Just because we 're a rave band it does n't automatically mean we take Ecstasy . |
| 8 | If terminal five does n't get the go ahead , if it does n't automatically mean that we 're faced with expansion at Stansted erm this is one of the reasons |
| 9 | Sometimes string makers print the tension of their strings on the packets , but it does n't actually mean that much . |
| 10 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 11 | It does n't actually mean necessarily erm how you behave . |
| 12 | Wonderful but it does n't actually mean anything . |
| 13 | It does n't incidentally mean that one is good and the other is bad . |
| 14 | It is standard procedure , and it does n't usually mean you actually get evicted ; it is a way of frightening people . |
| 15 | WHEN actors say they are ‘ resting ’ it does n't necessarily mean that they are lying on the sofa all day waiting for the phone to ring . |
| 16 | It does n't necessarily mean being totally idealistic — there are some situations where you can take control — ’ |
| 17 | Feeding most species of marine fish is not therefore as simple as it may seem and even if a fish feeds eagerly , it does n't necessarily mean that it 's eating the right food . |
| 18 | It does n't necessarily mean it 's going to work at front of house , so the sound man takes a direct feed , just a regular Marshall , dry , up to the house . |
| 19 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 20 | We can incrementally manage our way towards open systems component by component , ’ is his message to users , ‘ but do n't do it all at once — and remember it does n't necessarily mean Unix . ’ |
| 21 | You could have you could have open land within within a village , it does n't necessarily mean it 's open countryside . |
| 22 | ‘ And it does n't necessarily mean taking loads of drugs either . |
| 23 | It does n't necessarily mean that you will be . " |
| 24 | Er y your use of the phrase self containment leads me to ask the question , which is that , well in my book it does n't necessarily mean the same thing as an integrated and balanced community , but I 'll put Mr Davis on notice to define what is meant by those adjectives . |
| 25 | ‘ And it does n't necessarily mean taking loads of drugs either . |
| 26 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 27 | It does n't necessarily mean you 're gon na get it but it means that you 're being true to yourself because you 're putting your point across . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm well aware that my silence over Thomas now means you consider me the pits , but it does n't necessarily mean that you no longer — ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I realise that intellectually it does n't really mean very much . |
| 30 | I mean if somebody says I used to People finding grating people might say , Oh I find it grating but it does n't really mean anything does it ? |