Example sentences of "he mean [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What does he mean by that ? |
| 2 | And what did he mean by that last sentence ? |
| 3 | What exactly did he mean by that ? |
| 4 | What did he mean by that ? |
| 5 | Now what exactly did he mean by that remark ? |
| 6 | ‘ Now what would he mean by that remark ? ’ |
| 7 | What did he mean by that sombre ‘ quite ’ ? |
| 8 | What on earth did he mean by that ? |
| 9 | Oh ! what does he mean by that ? |
| 10 | What does he mean by this ? |
| 11 | Indeed it is difficult to imagine such a state of affairs , but in fact Marx , especially in Formen makes it quite clear that this is not what he meant at all ; it is only under the influence of Morgan in The Origin that Engels might possible by construed to have implied something so unlikely . |
| 12 | She still did n't understand what he meant by all that , no matter how much he explained . |
| 13 | Carmen Ballesteros , for one , would probably love to know exactly what he meant by that . |
| 14 | She wondered what he meant by that last remark about his brother , so quickly bitten off , but she knew better than to ask . |
| 15 | When two psychologists are in a lift and a man gets into the lift and says hello , one Psychologist turns to another and asks , ‘ What do you think he meant by that ? ’ |
| 16 | He did n't know himself what he meant by that … |
| 17 | He explained to them what he meant by that , about how he 'd run into Mr Plant in the small hours , wearing only a shirt . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you know what he meant by that ? ’ |
| 19 | Bush said this will be no Vietnam and he well understood and everybody else well understood what he meant by that . |
| 20 | ‘ When you were n't here at nine , I thought maybe you would n't be coming in again , ’ Jimmy remarked , and , before she could ask him what he meant by that , ‘ I like your hair that way , Leith , ’ he opined . |
| 21 | It seemed to me that this would be an interesting and upbeat note on which to finish our current serious on the theme of disasters , so I asked him what he meant by human betterment . |
| 22 | He meant by this that people are more likely to be convinced of the reality of the faith if our expression of it is coherent , sensible and entire . |
| 23 | Endill did not know what he meant by this and ran after him for an explanation . |
| 24 | I asked what he meant by this . |
| 25 | He then proceeded to elaborate what he meant by this consumption , for example , that cotton is turned into fabric , so new cotton must be grown ; fabric is worn out , so that new fabric must be woven , etc . |
| 26 | Bultmann too was happy to describe theology as ‘ faith seeking understanding ’ ; but what he meant by this was faith 's self -understanding , an understanding having to do with self-awareness and self-knowledge , subjective rather than objective . |
| 27 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 28 | He meant by this that the areas of colour in his painting were not to be blended by the eye but were to be seen as acting on each other reciprocally , thus producing pictorial form and space . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's all right , then , ’ she answered weakly , not daring to ask what he meant by this last cryptic announcement . |
| 30 | Robert could not think what he meant by this . |