Example sentences of "[vb infin] what it means [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know what it means to talk about conservation while idling away one 's leisure time in the killing of pheasants , foxes , deer and hares . |
| 2 | Do you know what it means to duck ? |
| 3 | Young people with backpacks and habitual travellers may know what it means to go on a journey , but for most the romance of escape begins with deciding where to go on holiday and then getting there as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | Each one of them will know what it means to take up the challenge year after year of a yet higher fund raising target . ’ |
| 5 | People do n't realise what it means to own a monkey . |
| 6 | In this section , we shall examine what it means to say that the study of nature was subordinate to theology in the period that separated the two Bacons , Roger ( ? 1214–94 ) and Francis ( 1561–1626 ) . |
| 7 | Do n't take this the wrong way , Barnett , but unless you 're a ‘ varsity man — proper ‘ varsity , that is , not these red-brick hell-holes — you ca n't imagine what it means to know you 're truly and deservedly special . |