Example sentences of "he [verb] no real " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks that Bryan Gould , by contrast , is ‘ very clever and ambitious , but he has no real roots in Britain or its culture . ’ |
| 2 | he has no real understanding of -ck . |
| 3 | Brutus says that he has no real reason to believe that Caesar would change his nature like this but because they had no proof either was it would be too much of a presumption to say that he would not change at all . |
| 4 | He finds no real evidence of any government attempting to hold down the rate of inflation in the short run in order to promote its own popularity at election time . |
| 5 | The strange thing was that he derived no real enjoyment from smoking . |
| 6 | He had no real friends and was difficult . |
| 7 | He would have liked to say I 'd rather you stayed , except that he had no real reason , or no reason he could give her easily . |
| 8 | The official appeared to ponder — I had the feeling that the pause was histrionic rather than meditative — and I was aware that he had no real concern . |
| 9 | As a youth , he was never an avid record collector and he had no real interest in applying himself to mastering an instrument . |
| 10 | He was obviously so happy and content in himself and his vocation that he had no real worry about being himself — even in the pulpit . |
| 11 | He had no real gift for the dramatic and could not to contend with his young competitor Joshua Reynolds in the Grand Manner . |
| 12 | He had no real claim to any royal throne . |
| 13 | All well and good , and he had no real objection to anything that rid the world of a townful of sandrat trash , but it was a pretty inelegant manoeuvre . |
| 14 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 15 | He was a poet who insisted upon the nature and value of a tradition , and yet he had no real predecessors or successors . |
| 16 | So he was a prisoner still , and in this alien world , circumscribed by a tiny room and a job in a Zoo , he had no real friends . |
| 17 | Though he kept asking questions , I still felt that he had no real interest in what I was saying . |
| 18 | Never before had he been subjected to such a plethora of opinions — often form people with whom he had no real relationship , many of whom , bore him and his family substantial grudges . |
| 19 | He had no real friends . |
| 20 | Now it was clear he had no real need of her assistance despite his claim to the opposite . |
| 21 | He had no real intention of assaulting her , however great the temptation which she presented to him . |
| 22 | The timing of the RPF 's creation was so unpropitious and the concept of a Gaullist " party " so problematic even to de Gaulle that one must assume that he felt that he had no real choice . |
| 23 | Perhaps even then he had no real intention of finding the money for the body , or at least not of presenting Owen with it . |