Example sentences of "[noun] do n't really [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I know your parents do n't really eat much sweet stuff , but do you have , generally have any sweet stuff in the house , really or is it |
| 2 | Although Christopher did n't really see much of them did he ? |
| 3 | ‘ I bet you did n't know the Scotch thistle does n't really grow all that much in Scotland at all . ’ |
| 4 | But these events of war did n't really disturb Little Weirwold except for Miss Emilia Thorne who had to recast the Christmas show as each evacuee left for home . |
| 5 | ‘ The Ukrainians do n't really know much about Britain , but I 'm going to serve champagne and two kinds of caviar so I expect we 'll have a good time , ’ Gladstone told me over a crackling telephone line shortly before the party began . |
| 6 | But Joseph does n't really understand that , and the changes he sees are bizarre and a little frightening — the furniture slowly turns into animals , objects are no longer what they seem . |
| 7 | Virginia did n't really believe all the tales she heard about the witch of Wardle Wood — or , at least , she tried not to believe them . |
| 8 | Norman did n't really know much about them . |
| 9 | Erm so I think possibly people do n't really feel responsible for that , for those , that space within the flats which is n't actually right outside their front door . |
| 10 | I find that Locke does n't really address this point . |
| 11 | The attendant under his arm said , " That was n't exactly what I meant ; just adding a " now " on to the start does n't really make much difference . |
| 12 | ‘ Sex and girls do n't really become important until you get to about 14 or 15 then you need some information . |
| 13 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 14 | First , we might use it to persuade ourselves that the errors Wittgenstein found in classical foundationalism do n't really infect all forms of foundationalism . |
| 15 | Others did n't really seem prepared to do things that demanded a response from people . |