Example sentences of "mean [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 2 | ‘ The elections mean nothing ’ said a local chemist . |
| 3 | It was the first official declaration that British passports mean nothing if their owners are black . |
| 4 | Names mean nothing of course , but Malamute was on file for iris , finger and dental prints . |
| 5 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 6 | It stands today in need of rescue from commercial interests to whom its traditions mean nothing , and likewise from administrators who would subordinate all else in deference to the supposed interests of the England squad . |
| 7 | Several of my scan pictures are backlit against a screen , but mean nothing to my layman 's eye . |
| 8 | Now that we have taken an overview of the Form method of patterning , I hope that many more knitters will not be as worried that the columns of figures published in magazines and so on , mean nothing to them , since they are n't supposed to in this format . |
| 9 | As a jailbird he knows he is no different to the cons he has to live with night and day — reputations mean nothing here . |
| 10 | They mean nothing to me . |
| 11 | ‘ The names mean nothing to me . |
| 12 | So that we have , I mean nothing of design or anything just short information because I think it 's so |
| 13 | I 'm only half joking of course when I say that by comparison the rip-offs and the scams and the scandals mean nothing . |
| 14 | By ‘ sign ’ , I should say , I mean nothing very technical . |
| 15 | I asked Mr Hill [ for the appellants ] what these last quoted words mean , and he replied they mean nothing . |
| 16 | I mean nothing to either of them . |
| 17 | The young mouth the old words but they mean nothing by them . |
| 18 | You know I mean nothing . |
| 19 | PAMELA : [ coldly ] I mean nothing but good . |
| 20 | ‘ You mean nothing worse could happen ? ’ asked Betty doubtfully . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean nothing . |
| 22 | They mean nothing to him . |
| 23 | Erm I mean nothing to do with this one . |
| 24 | Those Somerset nights , in friends ' cars , other people 's houses , once in a moonlit field ; my carefully scored and compared encounters to date ; they all mean nothing . |
| 25 | She 's gone , I mean nothing to her . |
| 26 | By themselves they mean nothing . ’ |
| 27 | Why should I , or anyone , be expected to perform tasks which mean nothing to me , and into which I can put nothing of myself ? |
| 28 | ‘ Labels mean nothing , ’ he shot back . |
| 29 | I mean nothing could catch my imagination fantasy . |
| 30 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |