Example sentences of "do not mean [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did not mean that . |
| 2 | Although the rectitude which he sought was personal rather than public , this did not mean that public rectitude , which had required that the vacancy at Canterbury should be filled as soon as possible , was excluded from consideration . |
| 3 | Blanche smiled and said she did not mean that , but the reference to Colombian cocaine barons and the mafia . |
| 4 | I did not mean that . |
| 5 | The United States had accepted the EDC as part of its strategy : the rejection of the EDC did not mean any amendment to the American insistence upon a West German defence contribution or greater inputs from the other states . |
| 6 | Both Martin Spencer and Vivian Bone , who joined EUP from Oxford University Press in 1980 to boost its editorial coverage , worked as commissioning editors , ensuring that the dramatic expansion did not mean any lowering of standards . |
| 7 | For the BBC , increased news did not mean more income . |
| 8 | When Curzon taxed him with setting in motion ‘ a revolution … which will probably lead by stages of increasing speed to the ultimate disruption of the empire ’ , Montagu replied , aghast : ‘ Surely you did not mean this ! ’ |
| 9 | The first point definitely implies the second , but it must be said that other mechanisms exist in the equations for introducing folds into the return maps , so that a similar transition is observed even for b-values which do not mean that increasing r involves passing through the spiral of Fig. 6.2 . |
| 10 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 11 | " They do not mean any harm , you know . |
| 12 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 13 | ‘ They just try and make the criminal more fearful of crime but more laws do not mean less crime we have seen that with all their previous measures . |
| 14 | ‘ I was very drunk , Jay , ’ she says in a rush , ‘ I did n't mean that to happen . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't mean that , ’ said Lucy . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't mean that rubbish . ’ |
| 17 | Immediately , Marie felt guilty : ‘ I did n't mean that — what I just said . |
| 18 | Did n't mean that way , sugar . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't mean that . |
| 20 | ‘ You did n't mean that , did you ? ’ |
| 21 | Oh , sorry , I did n't mean that . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't mean that . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Mike , I did n't mean that . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't mean that . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't mean that you half-witted dope ! |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't mean that . |
| 27 | ‘ You know I did n't mean that . ’ |
| 28 | I did n't mean that . |
| 29 | I did n't mean that . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't mean that … ’ |