Example sentences of "really [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If time is at a premium or you really hate tack cleaning , think about investing in a synthetic saddle and bridle for everyday use and keeping your leather tack for best . |
| 2 | P.S. I really hate to mention this , but if you take a look around you , I think you 'll notice that you 've blown your four-set clause . |
| 3 | If they really mean to improve transport in Scotland , why are they frightened of agreeing to the new clause ? |
| 4 | Does being true to oneself , and not selling out to Hollywood , really mean abandoning melodrama for realism , showmanship for seriousness , spectacle for solemn emotion , tight scripts for improvised styles ? |
| 5 | Apart from anything else , we , we do n't just go to the theatre we have , we really tend to wait to be invited |
| 6 | To this hour we ca n't judge with any certainty whether they really intend to slip by us into Derbyshire or to march to Wales through Cheshire … |
| 7 | Oh yeah , there was n't that erm gar garden centre , it was on the radio today and he 's saying erm , I really regret having the face changed , he said I wish it could be back |
| 8 | I , I hesitate to suggest , I mean that I 'm quite happy to support what Mr is saying , because I really hesitate to suggest reviving the old computer and financial services working party , because I think that was probably my most miserable experience on this council , with the single exception of the budget review er , parallel , or whatever it was , when it was led by . |
| 9 | Inevitably I end up with three different files , one showing the worst case scenario , one showing what I really expect to happen , and one showing the absolute best I could ever hope for . |
| 10 | I really expect to get back in three or four days and I will try and hang on to the holiday . |
| 11 | For £70 you really expect to get something special , or at least you ought to . |
| 12 | Is the discipline controlled by the big guns , or can individuals — even those without tenured posts in institutions — really expect to get a hearing ? |
| 13 | but did grammar really expect to get away with including the Christmas dinner in their schools meals budget ? |
| 14 | If it 's somebody who we really expect to stand then by all means then chase them up . |
| 15 | Let's see if we can move them on this year so that they start to think it 's a charity I know I really want to support . |
| 16 | All right , if you really want to feed the five thousand , preheat your oven to gas mark 7 , 220°C/425°F or more . |
| 17 | If governments really want to shatter the world economy , January 1991 would be an unusually good time to start . |
| 18 | So , instead , she said , ‘ I really want to thank you for being so good with Emily today . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not sure I really want to watch Arsenal , but they are not playing that well and it 's going to be a phenomenal game . ’ |
| 20 | But am I sure I really want to watch ? |
| 21 | ‘ I am 66 and I really want to retire . |
| 22 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 23 | Does the hon. Gentleman really want to set his face against the improvements that trust status could deliver ? |
| 24 | But I think it 's going in the right direction , that in , in a sense what is not wanted is , is facts to , to cluster the , the , the memory but erm imaginative qualities to kindle the , the intellectual spirit 's curiosity that we really want to awaken . |
| 25 | ‘ And I certainly do n't think any of the other guys said , ‘ I really want to hang out with you , chase girls , go to all the right parties and live really well — so how can we do this ? ’ |
| 26 | Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing ! |
| 27 | Second , decide what you really want to see . |
| 28 | Ian had a decision coming up : whether to fly home from Miami or to get illegal work in the States and travel some more : ‘ I really want to see Alaska . ’ |
| 29 | Whenever one of the family is seen responding to their dog 's demands , he or she must pay 10p ( or 50p if you really want to see motivation at work ! ) into the other 's boxes . |
| 30 | If you really want to see the blues , see if you can get a Northlite tube ( if they are available ) or a Trulite . |