Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's meant to be theatrical , by which I do n't mean lasers and fireworks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By which I do n't mean great fuckers ; we all know about power as an aphrodisiac ( an auto-aphrodisiac too ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |