Example sentences of "but i [verb] [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 2 | No , but I do n't mean to be patronizing . |
| 3 | Yes , but I do n't mean that , erm , could you , would you write it as one plus two or one minus two or one multiplied by two or one divided by two |
| 4 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 5 | — 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ But I do not mean to ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Thanks — but I did n't mean that , you know ! |
| 8 | But I did n't mean to lecture you , old thing . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's time you went , ’ I said as I watched him go but I did n't mean it . |
| 10 | But I did n't mean it then , and who knows , I may mean it now . |
| 11 | I know I told you not to write except in emergency but I did n't mean it . |
| 12 | ‘ I know I said last night that there was no need for us to spend too much time together , but I did n't mean we should take it to extremes , ’ she said with some annoyance . |
| 13 | ‘ But I did n't mean — I meant — ’ She floundered in a sea of confusion , not sure now , in the face of his implacable logic , what she did mean . |
| 14 | But I did n't mean that |
| 15 | No , no , no , I take your point , but I did n't mean that , it 's the way I 'd read the press release , I was n't the one reading it , so certainly they it would that would be please do n't forget I mean no one is going to really knock for your English |