Example sentences of "he do not mean " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him . |
| 2 | Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life . |
| 3 | By repetition , he did not mean that every time a phrase was repeated it had to be the same . |
| 4 | And Pound had later to explain what he meant , and what he did not mean , by his endorsement of Lewis . |
| 5 | Then he did not mean what he said . |
| 6 | This remark had haunted Khrushchev , who had several times explained he did not mean it literally , and finally got that famous goat . |
| 7 | But he did not mean that a bishop was utterly free to act and think as he thought fit . |
| 8 | Conroy , unemployed , of Peckham , south London , said he did not mean to shoot anyone , claiming his finger had jammed on the trigger . |
| 9 | After Feathers was jailed for life she vowed : ‘ I know he did not mean to kill Harry . |
| 10 | ‘ I did put my arm around his shoulders at the end and he told me he did not mean anything malicious . |
| 11 | By this , he did not mean that truth is simply subjective , merely my own opinion , what I happen to like to regard as true . |
| 12 | By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected . |
| 13 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
| 14 | In one dispute he is twice quoted as saying , on different occasions , ‘ we intend , nor will none otherwise do at any time , but according to the king 's laws ’ — and there is no reason to suppose that he did not mean it . |
| 15 | He did not mean as mistress to servant or patroness to protege . |
| 16 | His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely . |
| 17 | In those circumstances , he could not argue that he did not mean to obstruct , or that he was unaware that his conduct was obstructing . |
| 18 | She knew he did not mean it . |
| 19 | She knew he did not mean with their night 's work . |
| 20 | That does not prove he did not mean them . |
| 21 | In one dispute he is twice quoted as saying , on different occasions , ‘ we intend , nor will none otherwise do at any time , but according to the king 's laws ’ — and there is no reason to suppose that he did not mean it . |
| 22 | When he said to Cassin " Nous sommes la France " , he did not mean it in a rhetorical sense . |
| 23 | Even under such circumstances , he was not a person to blurt out words that he did not mean . |
| 24 | When , therefore , Nesselrode said that the European revolutions of 1830 turned Nicholas into " the impartial defender of European equilibrium " , he did not mean that the tsar had decided to back his " impartiality " with force . |
| 25 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 26 | His death would have been diagnosed as extreme negligence as although Roger did drop a huge stone on him , he did not mean to kill him . |
| 27 | Mr Kohl helps keep Mr Schäuble 's stock high by referring to him as a future chancellor , but by ‘ future ’ he does not mean ‘ soon ’ . |
| 28 | But when a modern lawyer uses the terms ‘ law ’ and ‘ equity ’ he does not mean to say that equity is not law . |
| 29 | He does not mean ‘ give ’ in the accepted sense of the word , of course . |
| 30 | When Ephron says ‘ give ’ , he means ‘ give ’ … and he does not mean ‘ give ’ . |