Example sentences of "it mean you [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That does n't sound too awful — or does it mean you 'll be in purdah ? ’ |
| 3 | A microwave oven could be a lifesaver this Christmas and it means you 'll spend less time slaving over a hot stove . |
| 4 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 5 | It means you may get your way without having to resort to desperate remedies . |
| 6 | The snag is it means you ca n't rent a car : they insist on a credit card for that nowadays so you 're going to see America by bus . ’ |
| 7 | A high factor sunscreen does n't mean that you wo n't tan , it means you wo n't burn before you tan . |
| 8 | ‘ It means you wo n't be disappointed when I choose to ignore you . ’ |
| 9 | And as a DJ it means you can pace the night better , play a lot of different sorts of music and try and create a rave atmosphere in the club . ’ |
| 10 | It becomes compulsory when sailing off exposed beaches in rough conditions , since it means you can escape the hazardous shorebreak quickly . |
| 11 | ‘ It means you can criticise under this without being personal . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're an expert sailor , and that 's good because it means you can take the twins to sea and keep them there until they 're damn well cured . |
| 13 | It means you can pack in a lot more things in your day , you can work , you can look after your children , you can take them out , you can do a lot of things that you could n't do otherwise . |
| 14 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 15 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 16 | And if we live on the Algarve it means you can continue with your career . |
| 17 | It means you can understand it without a science degree ! |
| 18 | It means you could be trapped in the flat if fire breaks out . |
| 19 | ‘ It means you could n't have arrived in Seal Haven all that long before I found you . |
| 20 | ‘ Unless , ’ he says , ‘ you had a double in Edinburgh or a lot of people are lying , it means you 'd have to have an accomplice in London ; somebody you 'd hired to … ah , make the collection . ’ |