Example sentences of "not really [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |
| 2 | ‘ That must have cost a pretty penny , ’ Mickey Aronson declared , not really expecting to be told the price . |
| 3 | ‘ That was different , ’ he told her grandly , and resumed , ‘ While ensuring that my secretary had enough work to keep him fully occupied for the whole of that weekend , and not really expecting you would have any need to contact him , I instructed Lubor Ondrus to give you any assistance you might require should a problem arise . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't know why I 'm not really using this er this pointer . |
| 5 | But when you think of er It 's not really referring to the beauty of the world . |
| 6 | We are not really operating a gallery in the true sense of the word , with additional stock behind the scenes . |
| 7 | They are not really enjoying what they are eating ; they are not even noticing what they are eating ; they are certainly not satisfying feelings of hunger . |
| 8 | I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing . |
| 9 | Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone . |
| 10 | She was not really looking for an answer . |
| 11 | Marise said dismissively , not really looking at Belinda as she spoke . |
| 12 | I E you 're not really looking at a feudal economy in the south any more i it may be a much more heavily commercial capitalist economy and therefore the kind of land reform programme that you might incorporate from a feudal north might not be entirely relevant . |
| 13 | er not really looking for a revolution , just looking back to where you were before |
| 14 | I wanted to thank you … ’ she began , not really comprehending why she was so reluctant to let him go . |
| 15 | I mean he 's not really pointing anything out that nobody already has known . |
| 16 | You 're not really wearing them braces all the time are you ? |
| 17 | And as he watched , not really wanting to see but unable to tear his eyes away , he heard the death cart coming , trundling through the empty streets with the hooded ghouls of the burial squad walking along beside it tolling their bells . |
| 18 | Unaware of the news which had spread swiftly throughout the city , Wilson returned to the Casa Guidi late in the evening , not really thinking to see Mrs Browning again but wishing to enquire after her and to take a knead cake she had made specially . |
| 19 | ‘ We all need to feel safe , ’ he said , not really thinking about it , thinking about Emily . |
| 20 | I 'm in my own world , drifting about , communicating with the baby , looking forward to it , not really thinking … |
| 21 | He was not really thinking about Matthew Choak but about the dead man . |
| 22 | Cos you 're not really thinking about who it might be ! |
| 23 | Er locally no real troubles on the M One er if you 're heading down to Leicestershire we have the work at twenty two on the M One not really causing too many troubles but some brand new work on the go in Northants today between junctions nineteen and eighteen that 's the M Six down towards Rugby . |
| 24 | She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars . |
| 25 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 26 | By changing the experimental conditions , social psychologists are not really exposing the instability of the child 's fear but are causing the child to be afraid in different ways . |
| 27 | Kitty Bouverie was not really listening . |
| 28 | In truth the Sergeant was not really listening to the Lieutenant 's enthusiastic explanation ; instead he was partly anticipating the Belgian girls and partly worrying when this headlong advance would run into the enemy picquets . |
| 29 | Carrie knew that although he was soothed , as she was , by the sound of Hepzibah 's voice , he was not really listening . |
| 30 | ‘ This guy is not really listening . ’ |