Example sentences of "mean [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 32 | But years later he was able to tell his brothers : ‘ You meant it for evil , but God meant it for good . ’ |
| 33 | I never meant it like that , no , you do n't go to the same you wanker |
| 34 | I did not mean it at all , I thought it was vaguely amusing . |
| 35 | Yes but did the Party want , did the Party mean it at this stage ? |
| 36 | But they did n't mean it like that . |
| 37 | ‘ No , I do n't mean it like that . |
| 38 | I did n't mean it like that . ’ |
| 39 | Oh — I do n't mean it like that . |
| 40 | " I did n't mean it like that . " |
| 41 | No — ’ he quickly laid his hand on Owen 's arm in the Arab way — ‘ I did not mean it like that . |
| 42 | I said what do you mean sh oh I did n't mean it like that I meant she ca n't be because I like her . |
| 43 | I 'm sure he did n't quite mean it like that . |
| 44 | I goes I did n't mean it like that . |
| 45 | Like , what if I opened the door , right , he did n't know I was coming home , he went , he looked at me and went , what are you doing here , I went , oh thanks Ryan , and he went , no , no I did n't mean it like that , I was just a bit surprised to see you like . |
| 46 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 47 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |
| 48 | Not that an animal picture on the wall meant anything to either of them that particular evening . |
| 49 | If it meant anything at all it probably meant other people thought you were a bit like them . |
| 50 | If it meant anything at all , thought Henry , it was something along the lines of We have n't got a clue . |
| 51 | None of the combinations of possible future events meant anything at all , nor could mean anything until somebody caught up with Vecchi . |
| 52 | If Pindar in the Thirteenth Olympian meant anything at all by saying that the Muses breathed sweetly over Corinth , he was not referring to his own day but perhaps to that of the Corinthian Arion who invented the dithyramb . |
| 53 | I never meant anything like that . |
| 54 | You must understand that I never meant anything like this to happen . |
| 55 | It did n't mean anything at all . ’ |
| 56 | The multiplicity of utterance meanings does not mean that any linguistic expression can mean anything at all in complete disregard of what it means as a sentence . |
| 57 | As I have written in another context ( Dreamers , 1984 ) , ‘ Humanity is going to look pretty silly if it turns out that dreams do n't mean anything at all . ’ |
| 58 | ROS : Half of what he said meant something else , and the other half did n't mean anything at all . |
| 59 | Very often , it does not mean anything at all . |
| 60 | Does he mean anything at all by it ? |