Example sentences of "meant [conj] you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 2 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 3 | Freeman withdrew the clause , wrote another one which meant that you had to go back to stage one again . |
| 4 | ‘ I grew up when that kind of modernism was running rampant — it still is — when to be a respectable composer meant that you had to acquire a defiantly difficult style and I just said to myself , ‘ surely there 's another way to do this ? ’ |
| 5 | This meant that you had to type everything , including the definitions for forms and reports , making dBFast more primitive in this aspect even than dBASE III Plus ! |
| 6 | I only meant that you have Joy , the gardener . |
| 7 | ‘ I know it meant that you did n't see your father but — ’ |
| 8 | Mm , no I meant when you 've dec once you 've , you know painted in there and got your carpet down |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose this is what you meant when you told me there was something wrong , and rushed off . |
| 10 | Mr Smith asked : ‘ Can you explain what you meant when you said you were in a minority in Lady Thatcher 's administration ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've given much thought to what you meant when you said those things — to what you really want , and — ’ |
| 12 | He meant when you hear voices and there are n't any . |
| 13 | I did n't mean that I meant when you look at a tree it 's sort of got |
| 14 | COUNSEL : Turning now to another part of the same statement , although you do not know the magnitude of the forces , perhaps you can tell the Court what you meant when you used the words " from time to time " ? |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , Fernando — ’ she turned her face to his ‘ — now I know what you meant when you called this morning — that Steve would need a friend , need my support . ’ |