Example sentences of "it meant a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |
| 2 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
| 3 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 4 | I had heard the word before , and knew it meant a cruel punishment often used by pirates — leaving a man alone on some distant , empty island . |
| 5 | Trouble was he lived at Selsit , which was up over the Pennine Way , across the high moor , and it meant a three-hour trek there and back . |
| 6 | It meant a close working relationship with the chairmen of the boards , who were key figures in the developing CNAA . |
| 7 | It meant a new way of looking at reading errors , seeing them as evidence of children 's use of linguistic knowledge . |
| 8 | I took this to be a dream of fear of exposure due to approaching First Night , but Amy looked it up in her Dictionary of Dreams under ‘ defecate ’ ( sorry about that ) and she said it meant a huge windfall ( that too ) . |
| 9 | With the company preparing to celebrate half a century in the town next year it meant a Royal ending could be written into its story . |
| 10 | For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office . |
| 11 | ANDY THORN 'S matchwinner ensured Crystal Palace 's revival continued to gather pace — but it meant a sixth defeat in eight games for Leeds , the crumbling champions . |