Example sentences of "but [pron] do [not/n't] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 2 | No , but I do n't mean to be patronizing . |
| 3 | Yes , but I do n't mean that , erm , could you , would you write it as one plus two or one minus two or one multiplied by two or one divided by two |
| 4 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 5 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 6 | ‘ But I do not mean to ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Thanks — but I did n't mean that , you know ! |
| 8 | But I did n't mean to lecture you , old thing . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's time you went , ’ I said as I watched him go but I did n't mean it . |
| 10 | But I did n't mean it then , and who knows , I may mean it now . |
| 11 | I know I told you not to write except in emergency but I did n't mean it . |
| 12 | ‘ I know I said last night that there was no need for us to spend too much time together , but I did n't mean we should take it to extremes , ’ she said with some annoyance . |
| 13 | ‘ But I did n't mean — I meant — ’ She floundered in a sea of confusion , not sure now , in the face of his implacable logic , what she did mean . |
| 14 | But I did n't mean that |
| 15 | No , no , no , I take your point , but I did n't mean that , it 's the way I 'd read the press release , I was n't the one reading it , so certainly they it would that would be please do n't forget I mean no one is going to really knock for your English |
| 16 | ‘ But you did n't mean it , did you ? ’ |
| 17 | But she did n't mean anything . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , but they do n't mean you , darling . ’ |
| 19 | They are nice for the day , but they do n't mean anything , they do n't make you any better . |
| 20 | But they did n't mean it like that . |
| 21 | I know Feargal lammed into you , ’ she added wryly , ‘ but he does n't mean the half of what he says when he 's in a temper . |
| 22 | Fergus and Lachy were fighting and Fergus meant to hit Lachy but he did n't mean to put his eye out . |
| 23 | But he did not mean that a bishop was utterly free to act and think as he thought fit . |
| 24 | This means that ideas can not be abstract , but it does not mean that they can not be general . |
| 25 | But it does not mean , ’ she said starchily , ‘ that one is totally without influence , or that propriety has been put in abeyance . |
| 26 | That is a pity , perhaps , but it does not mean that everyday language is bad ; it is imply the way of things that language is not alive unless it is vernacular , because the adornments and abbreviations are the adornments and abbreviations of human thought . |
| 27 | This criterion means that a great deal of fundamental science such as elementary particle physics or astronomy would not qualify for our support ; but it does not mean that we avoid contact with scientists working in these fields . |
| 28 | Man may be distinguished from the animal by his capacity for non-violence , but it does not mean that he has shed all vestiges of the animal in him . |
| 29 | The value of cash benefits to the poor should not be minimised or dismissed , but it does not mean that relative deprivation is removed . |
| 30 | But it does not mean that , with some ingenuity , you can not set a detective story , or almost any of its variants and successors , at some period in the past . |