Example sentences of "he mean [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 2 | He grinned amiably , and I knew he meant exactly what he said . |
| 3 | He meant literally what he said . |
| 4 | Esau may be rich and powerful ( he has four hundred men with him after all ) , and undoubtedly he means just what he says . |
| 5 | He means precisely what he says — ; but one must enter the language on its own terms or the meaning vanishes . |