Example sentences of "be really [verb] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't stand the fact that I know what you 're really like behind that ice-cool façade . ’ |
| 2 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 3 | Connecting with their deities , through consciousness raised by ritual , through dance or song , through drugs or sexual congress , they were really connecting with this primal force . |
| 4 | ‘ What with my wedding as well in October , it is really turning into some exciting year , is n't it ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What with my wedding as well in October , it is really turning into some exciting year , is n't it ? ’ |
| 6 | He 's really dealing with that whole idea of the image of the self and the reflection in the water being much bigger and more interesting to all of us that the reality of who Jeff Koons is , ’ Rifkin says . |
| 7 | Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . |
| 8 | But back on the marshes and fens , who was really to profit from this continual process of ever more intensive cultivation ? |
| 9 | One collector even suggested to Mr Laurentius that no one was really waiting for these new techniques and that it would be better for everyone if he stopped . |
| 10 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 11 | Belief in each other , however little was really known about that other , and belief in the cause , however nebulously described . |