Example sentences of "meant [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She appeared to have forgotten about my not going to the funeral but that was before she started to lose the steps to the attic , so to speak , so it just meant that she chose to not mention it . |
| 2 | Her strong competitive streak also meant that she had to be the most outrageous , the most rebellious and the most indisciplined girl in school . |
| 3 | Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night . |
| 4 | Loyalty to him , Richard knew , meant that she had never complained so far to anyone but himself about this business of living , instead of in a nice house , in a boat in the middle of London . |
| 5 | That meant that she had no money , and the all-day bus ticket was of course also in the purse . |
| 6 | These figures were virtually unchanged when war broke out with Spain in 1739 ; but lack of maintenance under the Walpole regime meant that she had only 35 of the line fit for immediate use . |
| 7 | That possibly meant that she had something else on this weekend . |
| 8 | Though occasionally , like now , Betty 's family commitments — she had a husband and a three-year-old son — meant that she had to cancel a date . |
| 9 | All of which , unfortunately , meant that she had no alternative but to put her own personal feelings to one side . |
| 10 | But she had to admit that , realistically , he probably meant that she annoyed him beyond measure and that he was hard put to it to treat her civilly . |
| 11 | In 1922 James Agate saw Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms and was in no doubt that ‘ this plain little American child ’ had given a performance which meant that she ranked ‘ with the world 's great artists ’ . |
| 12 | I thanked Paul 's wife for doing all the cooking , whereupon she remarked that she did n't mind because it meant that she did n't have to watch the Trek videos or play the games . |
| 13 | Her approach to clothes was matched by a mother in Ritchie 's study who noted that the cost of fuel meant that she did not light the fire during the day when her children were at school but saved the limited fuel supplies to protect their standard of living . |
| 14 | Surely he was bright enough to realise that her deliberate snub meant that she did n't want to see him again ? |
| 15 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 16 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 17 | The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack . |
| 18 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 19 | For she was a Callanish eagle and was going to teach that eagle from Wrath just what that meant before she allowed herself to fade away into darkness … |
| 20 | I was still trying to work out what that meant as she flurried off up to her bobble hat in snow . |
| 21 | Who cared what Anpetuwi meant when she had three tables to clear , four people waving at her , and a growing list of drinks to remember when she got back to the bar ? |
| 22 | He did n't understand what Miss Thorne meant when she told him to keep a gesture . |
| 23 | In many ways Kylie grew up with us on Neighbours so everyone understood what it meant when she left . |
| 24 | This is what a girl in Borstal meant when she said to me , ‘ I gave him everything I had but it was n't enough ’ . |
| 25 | It 's what my friend working in prostitution meant when she said she lost her self-respect when her husband was attracted to her colleague whom she saw as inferior to herself . |