Example sentences of "meant [pron] could " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I ca n't remember who he was supporting , but I was a regular visitor because being a big blues fan , it meant I could go and see Sonny Boy Williamson , and all the people who would be at the Richmond Jazz/American Blues Folk Festival that came every year . |
| 2 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 3 | This meant I could blame the problems on other people or on situations outside myself . |
| 4 | Mind , I welcomed them with open arms because it meant I could stay off school . |
| 5 | Anyway , I had enough to save up to buy a Raleigh bike one pound it cost — which meant I could cycle over to Middleton in Teesdale on my night off . |
| 6 | But having got my way over that , it meant I could n't protest as I wanted to about Frome being put in charge . |
| 7 | Anyway , that meant I could have a decent drink and trust to luck not to have to need a lift back . |
| 8 | I 'm a I I I 'm an er avid golfer , you I did n't say a golfer because that meant I could play , erm but I would n't put me on the golf clubs . |
| 9 | Erm , got back here about quarter past nine , which was great , cos it meant I could watch One Foot in the Grave . |
| 10 | Some were split and bent almost double by their own mass , which meant you could charge straight up them into the lower branches six feet above ground . |
| 11 | The jack plug was soldered on — which meant you could n't pull the lead out , you had to wrap the plug and lead around the neck before you could put it away . |
| 12 | ‘ All that stuff about community meant you could leave the kids with your mum if you had something to do , and you would n't grass on Charlie if the police came looking for him , and you could borrow ten bob to keep you going to the end of the week . |
| 13 | Cos after all a coin was a , had a monetary value that meant you could go and buy something with it . |
| 14 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |
| 15 | He was disappointed by her news as the loss of the big one also meant you could go home . |
| 16 | But gifts of second sight meant she could sense the sinister , too |
| 17 | This meant she could continue to level her basilisk stare ( the one which she reserves for special enemies ) at selected MPs . |
| 18 | Nellie was very good and a natural musician who could play without looking at the piano which meant she could watch the dancing at the same time . |
| 19 | The centre even paid for the first operation — they cost around Pounds 7,000 a time — because her teacher 's salary meant she could not afford it herself . |
| 20 | Her initial negative view of English and the tolerance of her poor English by others meant she could ‘ get by ’ with her deviant grammar and limited vocabulary and articulation . |
| 21 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |
| 22 | What this meant she could n't imagine . |
| 23 | She was able to roam further afield now , for Kit Everard felt he could gamble on her honour ( he hoped she was becoming attached to him too ) , and allowed her to walk on the beach by herself , and swim out to sea , even though he realised it meant she could slip out of the compound , for the sections of the stockade that he had left till last would enclose the shore . |
| 24 | She shook her head , pointed to the baby first and then to Sycorax as if her maternal cares in both their cases meant she could not stir a moment from their side . |
| 25 | At least Kathleen 's cooking meant she could manage a passable display of unconcerned eating , time to gather her wits a little … |
| 26 | Eva 's knowledge of mathematics meant she could handle the budget at Usher with few problems — apart from the usual one of there never being enough money to do all that needed to be done . |
| 27 | She supposed she had lost the baby but she herself felt reasonably comfortable apart from a plastic pipe stuck into the back of her hand which was sore and meant she could n't move . |
| 28 | And it meant she could stand up for Darren , who showed no sign of needing anything but his hard little fists and a certain way with words . |
| 29 | Joining in meant she could lose herself , forget , live for the moment just as Mark had always done — Oh , he had been a little wild on occasions , she knew that deep down , but Mark , being Mark , things had always turned out OK in the end … until that last time , of course … |
| 30 | It meant she could answer without thinking , which was an infinite mercy , for suddenly she was quite incapable of thinking . |