Example sentences of "n't really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , as you say , I was n't in the Cabinet so I ca n't really speak with any authority at all about how he conducted affairs there . |
| 2 | ‘ At the end we were at her bedside and she could n't really speak — she was slipping in and out of coma — but she was able to squeeze my hand . |
| 3 | ‘ There were tears in his eyes and he could n't really speak . |
| 4 | Er yes I , I er I think I , I could n't really speak definitely on this but er you I have said that we , you know that this secretary encouraged them because you know , to keep it in and even the one woman said this was how she got a deposit for her house and through , as I say , you 'd got a Co-op building society as well . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't really speak for her , but I would imagine she 's enjoying it . ’ |
| 6 | So I ca n't really speak |
| 7 | We then realized that we had to change that image , if you like to call it that , because we were n't really living normal lives any more . |
| 8 | ‘ But you were n't really involved , were you ? ’ |
| 9 | It had n't really involved her personally at all . |
| 10 | It was a period of penury such that James and his team spent one night in Pau furtively thieving back the petrol that had been stolen from their car and eventually hitchhiking back home via Le Havre , with no food on the way — and it brought out in James qualities of tenacity that he had n't really suspected in himself . |
| 11 | He does n't really does he ? |
| 12 | But at the end of 1990 the group was reorganised and Mr Wise was less happy with the outcome : ‘ I found the general direction in which the group was going did n't really satisfy me in terms of long-term interests or challenge , so I decided to bite the bullet . ’ |
| 13 | When I came aboard they did n't have a lead amp line as such ; they were famous for their bass amps , obviously , but their lead amp line was just there , no real profile , and the consumer did n't really realise that they had anything other than bass amps . |
| 14 | You do n't really realise how precious time is until it starts running out . ’ |
| 15 | see , so I ca n't really cash any more , you know ? |
| 16 | It 's a good way to do it to if you think , Oh I ca n't really handle this going on here , put all your noughts on and then you can work out what they come to . |
| 17 | I ca n't really handle rum , that 's why I did n't drink any last night . |
| 18 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 19 | ‘ They do n't really check on you very closely . |
| 20 | Most people think of artists as having to work totally alone , but I like to have someone there who does n't really disrupt what I 'm doing . |
| 21 | Most people think of artists as having to work totally alone , but I like to have someone there who does n't really disrupt what I 'm doing . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't really grieve for my grandma . |
| 23 | Yeah , you ca n't really defer your pension you have to take it when you retire , do n't you ? |
| 24 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't really want people to see you . ’ |
| 26 | She was used to seeing him in pyjamas by now ; also , by now , she quite understood why he would n't really want people to see him . |
| 27 | Of course he does n't really want to be alone . |
| 28 | I did n't really want to marry her or nothing , but I thought , you know , that we was friends like . |
| 29 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 30 | But John Drake does n't really want to talk about rare plants . |