Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] do [not/n't] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's for this reason I 've gone against my initial instinct not to blow our own trumpet on this at the risk of provoking more ‘ bad loser ’ comments from certain people ( and let me stress I do n't mean the runners-up ) communicated to me . |
| 2 | I goes I did n't mean it like that . |
| 3 | He goes I did n't mean to . |
| 4 | so I went and saw him and he goes I did n't mean it as a slut as , as in a promiscuous woman |
| 5 | He goes I did n't mean to insult you , oh no sir , right , yeah ! |
| 6 | Although I have said I do not mean to commend particular hotels or restaurants , I am compelled to break that rule here , just once , and say that Saint-Jean does have the only restaurant anywhere in the Pyrenees to which the Guide Michelin invariably gives two rosettes for its food . |
| 7 | Suddenly Rain laughed : ‘ Paul , I hope you do n't mean to swap this inconclusive stuff about knives for any worthwhile information I might have . |
| 8 | Maybe three months into training , when the captive trees behind the hotel complex burned into autumn flame and the air smelt of bonfires that they told her did n't mean danger , Chesarynth shivered across to the school . |
| 9 | Liz said , ‘ Christ , I hope it does n't mean we 're going to have to move . ’ |
| 10 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 11 | If words or phrases are used which do not mean anything to you ask to have them explained to you in layman 's terms . |
| 12 | Er but do n't I mean I 'm not the fact that erm some topics have a bigger number than others and others have only got one does n't mean they wo n't be on the paper Now , there will be some of you who will do spot revision . |
| 13 | I ca n't believe it actually , I mean and no , no offense to you because you know I do , you know I do n't mean this whatever |
| 14 | ‘ You know I did n't mean that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You know I did n't mean that the way you 've made it sound , ’ Merry protested , and Shannon made a quick , dismissive gesture . |
| 16 | ‘ You know I did n't mean that — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My dear Martha , ’ said the locksmith , ‘ how can you say such things , when you know you do n't mean them ? |
| 18 | ‘ I know you do n't mean that , James . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I know you did n't mean to … |
| 20 | I know you did n't mean it in offensively . |
| 21 | I know they do n't mean anything by it , it 's just what they had in stock . |
| 22 | Her real mum gave her a lot of support , and so did I. But supporting her does n't mean hiding what I think . |
| 23 | I mean just you know the the sort of , Well look er you know it does n't mean I wo n't respect you and I do n't love you and all that sort of thing . |
| 24 | you know it does n't mean to say that you 're wrong because you like to have a go or jump in and you 're not wrong if you like to have time to spend , there are no right or wrong styles and also what we ca n't associate the styles with , which people try to do sometimes is they try and identify the introverts and extroverts . |
| 25 | I know it does n't mean much on a thousand pound or something silly . |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't have to worry , ’ she said quickly , ‘ I know it did n't mean anything , that you were just — ’ |
| 27 | After Feathers was jailed for life she vowed : ‘ I know he did not mean to kill Harry . |
| 28 | Yeah , but I know he did n't mean to do that . |
| 29 | That is not the proposition , but the fact that one does not ban it does not mean that , with the knowledge that we now possess , we do not regard it as a debilitating and dangerous influence on society , and especially young people . |
| 30 | ‘ I hope my getting it does n't mean that someone else has been disappointed . |