Example sentences of "not really see " in BNC.

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1 After much discussion and some practise sorties a dogfight routine was worked out , as Lindsey recalls : ‘ In those days dogfighting World War Two aircraft at airshows was a routine that the public had not really seen before and it was rather exciting for us pilots to re-enact the aerial combats of yesteryear .
2 For a start , I will travel and go places I 've not seen , and return to places I 've been to but not really seen because of the tennis .
3 ‘ They have not really seen training as an effective means of improving the country and there has been a steady decline in Britain 's industry as a result . ’
4 No I 'd just be , I mean I must admit I 've , I 've not really seen one for years and years and years .
5 She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything .
6 She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing .
7 ‘ You 're not really seeing me , are you ? ’ she accused harshly .
8 ‘ I do not really see Ezra Pound in Rapallo , ’ Max Beerbohm told me .
9 I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study .
10 To his right and left spreads a familiar landscape , so familiar that he does not really see it , an expanse of houses and factories , warehouses and sheds , railway lines and canals , piles of scrap metal and heaps of damaged cars , container ports and lorry parks , cooling towers and gasometers .
11 Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor .
12 Managers do not really see them as part of the assets of the unit .
13 But she could not really see herself with whatever it was : vase , or rug or necklace , trying to sell it .
14 The children are not being asked to do the exercises as a matter of course , when they can not really see the point .
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