Example sentences of "what [pers pn] meant to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day . |
| 2 | If , as Hugh Kenner believes , Pound never ceased to love Dorothy even while he loved Olga , this is surely part of what he loved in her , an aspect of what she meant to him ; and so Pound 's feelings for and about England were , right to the end , not much less tormented than any English reader 's can be . |
| 3 | And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ? |
| 4 | We asked three women what she meant to them |
| 5 | I did n't come to argue about what you meant to Maurice . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions . |
| 8 | That was what he meant to Luke Thackray , her son , who was to sleep in the kitchen so that the " candidate " might have the privacy of his tiny but spotless room . |
| 9 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 10 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 11 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 12 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 13 | The heated debates in Western Europe around the year 400 on the meaning of perfection had their roots in the uncertainty about what it meant to be a genuine Christian in a society of fashionable Christianity . |
| 14 | This remark did not go down well with Alcuin , who thought he was being criticized , but we can see what it meant to the late ninth-century writer who reported it . |
| 15 | Carrying the banner of the nuclear industry , it was well aware of what it meant to be a target for the new generation of environmentalists . |
| 16 | In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person . |
| 17 | ( Births and mothers willing ! ) b ) Study day reports ? c ) Reports/write ups of visits and meetings ? d ) What it meant to me . |
| 18 | Lee sat with her hand gripped tightly around the curved handle of a pint mug of beer and tried to work out who could have decorated the rostrum with this masochistic phrase and when and why and what it meant to the writer and whether the evening 's entertainment was aware of the invitation signalling beneath her feet . |
| 19 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |
| 20 | ‘ Constanza says that she felt so much for her mother , even if she did not understand then what it meant to her to be cut off from Italy , from Rome . |
| 21 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |
| 22 | Perhaps when we stopped asking what it meant to be fighting a war in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 24 | But now , at this moment , she understood his inadequacy in personal terms , realized what it meant to him not to be able to move people , not to be able to find the encouraging word , the inspiring slogan . |
| 25 | He understood what it meant to be sixteen . |
| 26 | Now workers control , that 's what it meant to me . |
| 27 | Quite clearly what it meant to the average rate payer was seven pound a year . |