Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] mean by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What d' ya mean by put water on for boiling water ? |
| 2 | ‘ Lady Agnes , what did you mean by referring to Queen Yolande as a virgin pretending to be pregnant ? ’ |
| 3 | Now what did you mean by write the arrows , did you mean from here ? |
| 4 | ‘ What did you mean by saying that my mother was eccentric ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What did you mean by saying that you were psychic ? ’ |
| 6 | But she was entirely unprepared for the utter pugnacity of him when he snarled harshly , ‘ So tell me , Miss Everett , just what in thunder do you mean by thinking you 're going to leave ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well ! ’ says someone , ‘ I know what you mean by talking to God but what do you mean by listening to him ? |
| 8 | ‘ What do you mean by frightening the life out of me ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What do you mean by sneaking my cousin off to the mainland when she 's supposed to be at my place , studying ? |
| 10 | What do you mean by get in first ? |
| 11 | What do you mean by saving your stupid oxen at the expense of my beautiful cow ! |
| 12 | What do you mean by barging into my house ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ What the devil do you mean by running from me ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What do you mean by saying we 're going to be close to each other ? |
| 15 | Ignoring that , Luce demanded , ‘ What did she mean by saying such a thing ? ’ |
| 16 | Erm well I mean I think there 's some very fundamental issues in all this in , in the communication spectrum first of all using the phrase back to basics , what do people mean by that and that 's where the , they , they have gone wrong because the problem is that here we are , four people round this table and I 'm sure if all of us were asked what do we mean by getting back to basics , we 'll come out with a totally different you know set of things that meanings . |
| 17 | ‘ But what I wanted to ask Denis was , what did he mean by saying we were n't children any more ? ’ |