Example sentences of "i do [not/n't] mean the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By puddings I do not mean the pretty little fripperies that are offered at the end of an elegant dinner as token appeasement of our sweet-toothed leanings . |
| 2 | I do not mean the church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity , terrible as an army with banners . |
| 3 | and again : " when I make use of the word people , I do not mean the vulgar or mixed multitude " . |
| 4 | The notoriously atheist and materialist Holbach was explicit about whom he meant by " the people " : By the word people I do not mean the stupid populace Every man who can live respectably from the income of his property and every head of a family who owns land ought to be regarded as a citizen . |
| 5 | We are dedicated to experimentation , to pushing back the frontiers of football as we know them , to boldly go where no self-respecting soccer club has gone before , and no , I do not mean the Whaddon and Mitchley Sunday League . |
| 6 | No , dearie , when I say , the basis for a new poetry , I do n't mean the vers libre movement as it was in the year 1912 . ) |
| 7 | Those bastards , I do n't mean the squareheaded bastards across the fields , I mean the bastards who are sending all this shit over our heads all the time . ’ |
| 8 | And I do n't mean the Grand Army . ’ |
| 9 | We lean towards the view that : ‘ Race is only used when it 's to somebody 's advantage , and I do n't mean the working-man 's advantage … |
| 10 | All I want is some action , and I do n't mean the action of my facial muscles working overtime in order to produce streams of bullshit . |
| 11 | I do n't mean the waiting — for orders . |
| 12 | By this I do n't mean the need for physical help and practical advice so much as the longing for emotional reconciliation , a bonding with her . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't mean the sort of official crime I deal with as a solicitor . |
| 14 | It 's for this reason I 've gone against my initial instinct not to blow our own trumpet on this at the risk of provoking more ‘ bad loser ’ comments from certain people ( and let me stress I do n't mean the runners-up ) communicated to me . |
| 15 | ‘ To tell him that his son Morris is the office pusher , and I do n't mean the tea-trolley . ’ |
| 16 | And did you have to repair things , well you probably did , er farm instruments , I do n't mean the big implements but things like their scythes and what |
| 17 | Oh no , I do n't I do n't mean the eggs , the inside , cos , but on the outside , the inside tastes lovely . |
| 18 | Oh no , no I do n't , no I do n't mean no I do n't mean I do n't mean the business going here , I mean the things that I pay . |
| 19 | no I do n't mean the iced one that you buy |
| 20 | I do n't mean the toilet ! |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , I did n't mean the Flaxton dance with Jack Butler . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't mean the man any harm — he was just an idiot . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't mean the things I said about you and Gran in the diary . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't mean the things I said that day , my lovely witch . |
| 25 | ‘ He should have known I did n't mean the things I said , ’ Bertha had persisted stubbornly . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't mean the apartment , ’ he drawled as the twins came dancing happily across the office towards them . |