Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room itself would have been enough to efface any human material less striking than Clelia 's mother , and it did indeed more or less totally efface the unobtrusive Martin , who sat quietly dissociated , perched on the edge of a gilt-framed armchair , looking as though he did not quite mean to be there . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're a flatterer , ’ she teased , a little rueful that he did n't entirely mean what he said . |
| 3 | I 'm sure he did n't quite mean it like that . |
| 4 | He did n't really mean it , but his request sounded more gracious put that way . |
| 5 | He did n't really mean it . |
| 6 | Four days later , after the front-page splash headlines , intense team meetings and streams of trans-Tasman phone calls from ACB headquarters , Border said he did n't really mean to give the impression he would ditch the team . |
| 7 | I kept on thinking , he did n't really mean me to come round . |
| 8 | He did n't really mean it — it was just a ploy to be rid of Doreen . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He did n't really mean it , ’ she now recalls . |
| 10 | She told herself that he did n't really mean it , that he was just angry about the way everyone was praising Therese , and about the applause and cheers that she got . |
| 11 | She swallowed the hurt and told herself he did n't really mean it . |
| 12 | When Lacan speaks of the Other , he does not only mean the world of concrete others , but indicates an outside symbolic field of language which we are inserted into . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |