Example sentences of "meant [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millions of pounds of investment meant nothing to Bedford-St Pancras commuters when their long-awaited new electric trains were laid up in the sidings while BR and the rail unions hammered each other over one-man operation . |
| 2 | That it meant nothing , less than nothing , to Mrs Hatton he was sure at once . |
| 3 | Eileen was dead and it meant nothing to them at all . |
| 4 | The Pennines fairly shook , and Quinn 's last-minute volley meant nothing . |
| 5 | To the Tysons , that meant nothing extravagant — just an extra £135 a month to make life at home in South Ruislip , Middlesex easier . |
| 6 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 7 | Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing . |
| 8 | It meant nothing to me then . ’ |
| 9 | The Orange marches during what his cousin Phelim O'Neill ( Westminster MP for North Antrim ) called ‘ the silly season ’ meant nothing to him . |
| 10 | I looked at my watch and found it was after eleven o'clock , which meant nothing really . |
| 11 | For the first and only time on the journey , posters , shop signs and street names meant nothing to me . |
| 12 | World Challenge Expeditions meant nothing to us . |
| 13 | She could hardly hear them because of the din , and the few words and phrases that she did catch — ‘ tolerances to five thou ’ , ‘ cross-boring ’ , ‘ CNC machine ’ , ‘ indexes round ’ — meant nothing to her . |
| 14 | A year ago the name Mani meant nothing to me . |
| 15 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 16 | The words meant nothing to Franco but the situation was all too familiar . |
| 17 | That meant nothing to me . |
| 18 | As written words meant nothing to Marian the name of the man who called himself her foster-father presented no difficulties , but Allen , the boy from the dales of Yorkshire , who could read no more than she could , liked tossing words about and playing with them like pebbles , so he called Fat Watt when he was out of earshot ‘ What Fat ’ . |
| 19 | But Acre meant nothing to Marian and Allen . |
| 20 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 21 | hand of the Archbishop of Nicosia meant nothing to them . |
| 22 | Paddy Byrne meant nothing to him , yet he 'd appeared at the graveside this morning . |
| 23 | Delaney shook his head , knowing that for Silk nothing alive meant nothing to kill . |
| 24 | A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing … |
| 25 | He could see his room — the white walls , the shelf of shells , the ocean in the window — but they could 've belonged to anyone , they meant nothing . |
| 26 | Grégoire 's ability to take a clock to pieces and put it together again , to strip down a car engine , to harness a horse and ride it well , to know and to cherish the names and characteristics of plants and of animals — all these abilities meant nothing to Hugo at all . |
| 27 | ‘ In my estimation the most perfect rock'n'roll band that ever existed , The Beatles , when they sat down and wrote lyrics , they were just throwing ideas around that really meant nothing , and we were the ones who , for instance , made out that Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds meant LSD . |
| 28 | It was obvious that hammering a Strat into the stage or setting it on fire meant nothing in financial terms to our heroes . |
| 29 | It is highly evocative of that time in everyone 's life when a mortgage meant nothing , music was all and your friends could be as mental as barking hens . |
| 30 | It was nonsense , it meant nothing . |