Example sentences of "i [verb] not mean [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For when I speak of the community being faithful to its own principles I do not mean its conventional or popular morality , the beliefs and convictions of most citizens . |
| 2 | She looked Flavia full in the face , ‘ I do not mean your feeling for me , though you have hardly talked about that either . |
| 3 | ‘ When I deny things in an existence out of the mind , I do not mean my own mind in particular , but all minds . |
| 4 | I said how depressing asylums must be , but he said quickly " I do not mean my picture to be depressing . " |
| 5 | What Mr Patten does n't seem to realise is that most seven to 11-year-old children — and I do n't mean his own privileged daughter Mary Claire — need to be eased and teased into acquiring a reading habit . |
| 6 | ‘ No , no , I do n't mean my husband . |
| 7 | You are the pleasures which we draw him on to — ( He escapes a fractional giggle but recovers immediately ) and by that I do n't mean your usual filth ; you ca n't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires . |
| 8 | ‘ Now when I say he believed in England I do n't mean your thatched cottages and warm beer he did n't think the place was cute , not just his grandfather 's birthplace . |
| 9 | I did not mean your consent to this . |
| 10 | No I did n't mean my gaffer , no the other one . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't mean your chairs , I mean for visitors . ’ |
| 12 | " I did n't mean your sort of bird — I meant birds that fly , " I said . |