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• I did not mean to hurt you.
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• I don't mean to chase you out.
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• If you had called these sensations respectively BLACK and WHITE, he would have adopted them as readily; but he would mean by BLACK and WHITE the same things that he means by SWEET and SOUR.
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• "It's good to be home," he whispered, "with the people who mean the most to me."
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• I mean... he rode ahead so he could make arrangements before you arrived.
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• I mean - does he tell you what to cook for supper and what to wear?
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• We could take two wagons, but that would mean we'd have to travel slow, and there wouldn't be any animals for riding except Bordeaux's horse.
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• You mean he thinks that he has to take care of his mother, now that his father is gone?
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• It grieves me to think that I have been the cause of his unhappiness, but of course I did not mean to do it.
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• I know he did not mean to say it, but it came out accidently.
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• I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
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• You mean we're that close?
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• I don't mean to insult them.
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• They are always asking: What does this beauty or that music mean to you?
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• All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian court, care for your victories?
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• I mean, you let Dulce believe you talked me into this surrogacy thing.
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• "What do you mean by that?" asked the little Wizard, greatly puzzled.
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• I mean, I could still have my business in town.
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• "I didn't mean to wake you," he whispered as he crawled into bed.
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• This does not mean, however, that she always uses them correctly.
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• That it would mean people would no longer know their neighbors?
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• I realized what the Orientals mean by contemplation and the forsaking of works.
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• As the pace of Internet technology's advance keeps quickening, it will not only reveal (and answer) latent desires we never knew we had, but it also will increasingly mean tasks that have been technically impossible will become possible.
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• Her recent training has taught her to drop a good deal of her conventionality and to write about experiences in her life which are peculiar to her and which, like the storm in the wild cherry tree, mean most and call for the truest phrasing.
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• In the mean time, maybe if she stopped running, he'd stop chasing.
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• "But what do you mean by living only for yourself?" asked Pierre, growing excited.
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• I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period in my life; I mean that I had some.
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• My dear, what does it mean?... she asked, turning to Princess Mary.
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• I didn't mean to pry.
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• You mean an employee.
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• "Didn't know what land it was, my son," returned the other, with a pleasant smile; "and, to be honest, I didn't mean to visit you when I started out.
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• Well, Michael Ivanovich," he suddenly went on, raising his head and pointing to the plan of the building, "tell me how you mean to alter it...."
• The doctor said this restlessness did not mean anything and was due to physical causes; but Princess Mary thought he wished to tell her something, and the fact that her presence always increased his restlessness confirmed her opinion.
• Princess Mary raised herself on the sofa on which she had been lying and replied through the closed door that she did not mean to go away and begged to be left in peace.
• What do you mean? demanded Pierre, blushing.
• He had not decided what it should mean when he heard the voice of the eldest princess at the door asking whether she might come in.
• "Then it will mean that I must go to the army," said Pierre to himself.
• "You mean the left flank?" asked Kaysarov.
• "Yes--that is, how do you mean?" said Pierre.
• "And what does he mean by 'One of my eyes was sore but now I am on the lookout with both'?" asked Pierre.
• "Whom do you mean, Aunt?" asked Nicholas.
• Assuming that she did go down to see him, Princess Mary imagined the words he would say to her and what she would say to him, and these words sometimes seemed undeservedly cold and then to mean too much.
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