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Example sentences for "really meant"

  • All that is really meant is, that the event would not have happened if he had been at his duty.

  • Then she burst into tears and the old excuse fell almost unconsciously from her lips, "I meant to, I really meant to.

  • That's a frightful cram, but I know what he really meant.

  • Mother was frightfully upset by it for she was afraid it really meant failed [durchgefallen], and that the other telegram had been only an idiotic joke.

  • But of course it really meant durchgekommen [passed], for meanwhile the second telegram had come.

  • He came to her so often for help in his difficulties that she soon saw he really meant all he said, and was genuinely puzzled in a very queer way by many varied aspects of English society.

  • I could see she thought I really meant to insult her.

  • He said it so simply, so seriously, so innocently, that Philip was quite sure he really meant it.

  • I really meant to present you with an album containing all the pictures which turn out well," she said.

  • If he really meant what he said he ought to have gone back to his hotel, played billiards for an hour, and sought his bedroom with an easy conscience.

  • When the Germans taunted him with being afraid to say what he really meant--that the local should oppose the demand for the eight hour day--he merely laughed at them.

  • It was finally decided that Comrade Mary should call on Jerry Coleman in the morning, and satisfy herself that he really meant business; if so, she would get the full committee together on the following evening.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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