Example sentences of "he do [not/n't] mean [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 2 | When St Paul told the Christians in Philippi that he had learnt to be content , he did n't mean that he was smug ; it did n't mean that he had been well fed and could put his feet up . |
| 3 | Oh yeah he do n't mean that he had a lot of drink , just have a drink and come home . |
| 4 | If a geneticist speaks loosely of a ‘ gene for behaviour X ’ , he does not mean that there is a gene which would cause behaviour X if inserted into any animal . |
| 5 | He does n't mean that he wants to become mature or to quell the beast within or anything else comfortable to the understanding . |