Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] mean by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is what I mean by taking stock . |
| 2 | What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is the same as my reason for calling it ‘ a sensation of white ’ . |
| 3 | What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is its mere resemblance to other sensations called by the same name . |
| 4 | What I mean by setting goals is asking yourself ‘ What sort of person do I want to be ? ’ |
| 5 | Make no mistake about what I mean by selling : it does n't matter if you are trying to get people to buy tins of beans , contribute money to starving millions , or vote for a certain politician , you are selling the product , social cause , or person . |
| 6 | This is what I mean by saying that reforms within the system of utilisation will not change the system in any fundamental way . |
| 7 | That is what I mean by making fear your friend . |
| 8 | That 's what I meant by flaunting . |
| 9 | Each has the same environment as do the atoms or molecules in a crystal ( that is what I meant by saying that this sort of structure represents simple ordering ) , and each is attached to its neighbours in exactly the same way . |
| 10 | And that illustrates what I meant by saying that you need quite complex systems . |
| 11 | But it is a mistake , surely , to think of emotive meaning as a form of meaning in that most important sense of meaning in which we ask what someone meant by saying something , or what he would have meant if he had been speaking properly . |
| 12 | Mum went straight up to Mrs Phipps and demanded to know what she meant by saying Granny had had her chips . |
| 13 | And if we recognise our true position as skilled labourers performing with more or less ability a given portion of a comp 's duties , it would be utterly absurd for you to propose , or us to expect , equal remuneration with men which I suppose is what you mean by insisting on getting the true value of our labour . |
| 14 | I do n't know what you mean by cancelling down though . |
| 15 | ‘ It all depends what you mean by making contact . |
| 16 | ‘ Well ! ’ says someone , ‘ I know what you mean by talking to God but what do you mean by listening to him ? |
| 17 | Now okay , I know what you mean by saying yes , you want to get the higher price everywhere . |
| 18 | I want to know what they meant by sending a son of mine to — ’ |
| 19 | They said what they mean by using it properly , I mean |
| 20 | Pound saw him doing it , and chuckled indulgently ; it was what he meant by dubbing Eliot ‘ the Possum ’ ( opossum , the creature that escapes danger by shamming dead ) . |
| 21 | By closing down Polish educational institutions ( notably the university at Vil'na and the lycée at Krzemieniec ) , by suppressing the Uniate Church ( in 1839 ) , by abolishing Magdeburg Law in Kiev ( in 1835 ) and the Lithuanian Statute throughout the region ( in 1840 ) , by promoting the publication of history books which argued that the western provinces had been Russian from time immemorial , by depriving many Poles of noble status , by promoting the interests of their Ukrainian and Belorussian serfs , and by insisting that local administration be conducted in Russian , he sought to make clear what he meant by allowing " Nationality " , narodnost' , to be attached to " Orthodoxy " and " Autocracy " in the celebrated circular of 1833 . |
| 22 | For the speaker can not settle what he means by settling on the effects it will produce as he can settle what he is setting out to mean in saying it . |
| 23 | It could be said that to understand what he means by prayer is to understand what he means by talking to God . |
| 24 | But if the literary text says , ‘ The door was open ’ I can not ask the text what it means by saying that the door was open , I can only speculate about the significance of that door — opened by what agency , leading to what discovery , mystery , goal ? |