This proviso has been supposed to mean that ships at sea were not forfeited; /3/ but there is a long series of petitions to the king in Parliament that such forfeitures may be done away with, which tell a different story.
I don't mean that I am going to be indelicate; but I'm going to go back to where I began.
Does it mean that I am to be consoled by the splendor that is to attend this--execution?
Does it mean that my maidenly blushes--the blushes that betray my secret love--are to be hidden by a veil of priceless lace?
I mean that I will die, if you force me to this vault," replied Josepha, pale as death.
I mean that sort of perfect marriage that, according to the saying, is made in heaven.
Clara thought the same, and besides was secretly sure that if he admitted that he had been wrong in part, his uncle would imagine him to mean that he had been wrong in the whole.
I mean that if you try to be religious for anything besides religion, it isn't being religious;--and no one else has any right to ask you to be.
I don't mean that, and you must excuse me, my dear.
If you only hated me, Clementina, despised me--I don't mean that.
I didn't mean that--I--merely meant to put you on your guard.
I mean that as all thoughts and theories were once judged by whether they tended to make a man lose his soul, so for our present purpose all modern thoughts and theories may be judged by whether they tend to make a man lose his wits.
I mean that a man may well be less convinced of a philosophy from four books, than from one book, one battle, one landscape, and one old friend.
I mean that I don't love Lord Warburton enough to marry him.
They are the breath of life--by which I mean that life, in its own way, breathes them upon us.
Does it mean that they've been left well off, or that they wish to be under no obligations?
I mean that having no faults, for your aunt, means that one's never late for dinner--that is for her dinner.
Whatever else it means, it's pretty sure to mean that," Mr. Touchett remarked.
I mean that I should be so very glad if it were ever possible for me to serve you in any trifle.
She hesitated a little, but made answer: "I don't mean that I think you unfeeling, but your interests seem to be so far from such simple things.
When I say that I love her, I don't mean that I am ready to lose my wits when she is good enough to smile on me.
Well, when I say that I believe this course is the highest I can follow, I mean that I believe it employs all my best natural powers as no other would.
Alice, I hope it doesn't mean that we are going back, don't you?
You have too much sense to think I mean that I repent it.
I don't mean that we are to go and be hermits in a wilderness.
You don't mean that it would all necessarily come to an end.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mean that" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
