Example sentences of "[adv] meant [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sartre 's claim for the continued validity of Marxism as a method of understanding necessarily meant that he had to respond to the problem of Stalinism . |
| 2 | He spent three afternoons a week , from Tuesday to Thursday , at Russell Square ; although he was still active as an editor , at least with the work of those authors who were now also old friends , age and reputation necessarily meant that he was now much more of a " figurehead " than once he was . |
| 3 | The fact that God had done it once meant that he could do it again . |
| 4 | This meant some easing of the burden , which he liked , but it also meant that he was not Prime Minister , which he also liked being , that he did not have Chequers , for which his affection was second only to that of MacDonald , and that his salary as Lord President was £2000 instead of the £5000 which Secretaries of State as well as the Prime Minister were paid . |
| 5 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 6 | I suspect Bunny probably meant that he once knew a Swedish waitress , but I let it pass . |
| 7 | Dexter knew it was tempting to ask Lancaster whether he was lying and that he really meant that he could n't face the idea of seeing his wife again , a wife he had murdered and left a bloody corpse on the floor downstairs only a few minutes before . |
| 8 | Family commitments now meant that he just did the occasional Cowes Week and Club Race . |
| 9 | It shook Nutty , for the fact that he adored Firelight surely meant that he must be nicer than he seemed ? |
| 10 | whether or not he were a British citizen his possession of a British passport abroad meant that he enjoyed the protection of the crown against any malice or misfortune that he might encounter . |
| 11 | Living in a city again meant that he would have to stop looking like a derelict . |
| 12 | Joe 's absence almost certainly meant that he had succeeded in persuading a girl called Jill into going out with him . |