Example sentences of "[pron] he really [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Aspen Pittman made a slip of the tongue , but has appeared on record many times as saying what he really meant to say to me . |
| 2 | And what he really meant to say was , you ca n't use money as a er a as a sort of parallel to energy , but paradigm does n't mean parallel , it means something , something different . |
| 3 | He shook his head a fraction and his gaze slid to the door and back — but even searching the hyacinth radiance around his head she could not guess what he really meant to do . |
| 4 | He hemmed and hawed and rambled through a number of subjects before making a sideways approach to what he really seemed to need , which was any useful or memorable detail that would be worth noting about the previous night 's client . |
| 5 | What he really needed to come out of this marriage smelling of roses was a lucky accident . |
| 6 | This might work better for me than his lying in a darkened room , which was what he really needed to do . |
| 7 | What he really wanted to do , and is now doing , is research on the effect that the shape of ordinary furniture has on the way people respond to each other . |
| 8 | What he really wanted to do was show what a smart , concerned guy he was . |
| 9 | In fact what he really wanted to meet was a dragon , but an elf would do . |
| 10 | What he really wanted to write was : |