Example sentences of "[verb] not really [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had quite a restless night , and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning . |
| 2 | Trespass did not really fit the case because the harm was consequential , not direct . |
| 3 | Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language . |
| 4 | Haute couture in the tomb did not really preoccupy the majority of the populace and , in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , the system of requisitioning a single linen sheet from the household supply seemed to be the norm . |
| 5 | She did not really like The Soldier 's Tale ( ‘ I was all into swans and tutus ’ , she explained ) but was impressed by the duet for the soldier and the Scarlet Woman . |
| 6 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 7 | His wife , Elizabeth , has told Mollie that they did not really get the view that it was coming their way until the next week ; but , in fact , it was . |
| 8 | Harvey , nearly thirty years younger than Morris , did not really get the point , but with that courtesy for which the rising junior minister is rightly celebrated laughed generously in response . |
| 9 | He did not really understand the conversation , but he knew that the Woman was being attacked . |
| 10 | At times the broadcasters themselves did not really understand the significance of what they were broadcasting , so it was hardly surprising that their listeners took the same view : enthusiasm , and the lack of it , are equally infectious . |
| 11 | No hostage was released , the excuse given by Ghorbanifar being that Iran did not really need the TOW missiles so they were not counted in the exchange deal . |
| 12 | In the next example the boys , with the pedal car , had already made their decision on size and did not really need the teacher to question them about it , but they were obviously quite used to talking with her . |
| 13 | I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life . |
| 14 | As he had once said , he did not really have the temperament of a gunner . |
| 15 | Again she was a busy young mother who did not really find the time to mourn for the loss of her unborn children . |
| 16 | More drastic cures , such as providing woollen garments covered in some noxious chemical substance , do not really cure the cat 's fixation . |
| 17 | Recent reprints of Royal Institution discourses , organized under disciplines , do not really give the flavour of the programme as a whole . |
| 18 | The incitement provisions in the Act do not really extend the law greatly , since it is in any event a common law offence to incite another to commit an offence , even a summary offence . |
| 19 | ‘ You do not really understand the issues . ’ |
| 20 | For there is an ugly rumour that some of these film stars and sports personalities do not really use the products which they advertise . |
| 21 | If such crimes really are entirely accounted for by the possession of abnormal motives propelling their possessors into crime regardless of any other considerations , then it does not really possess the features that usually class actions as ‘ crimes ’ ; rather , it would belong in some alternative category , such as mental illness . |
| 22 | Kepler Wessels , his captain at Eastern Province , says he can be as quick as Allan Donald , though he does not really swing the ball . |
| 23 | The historical evidence does not really support the view that kin groups were much more stable in the past than in the present . |