Example sentences of "and he [verb] [adv] really [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that what he 's said in court is purely something to get back at you and he does n't really mean it . |
| 2 | We took him to a Chinese restaurant where they serve those drinks in coconuts — they 're quite strong and he does n't really drink , but we made him have one anyway , and he quite enjoyed it . |
| 3 | He tells everybody his sister gave it to him for Christmas and he does n't really want one , but what with the job and all his meetings it comes in handy . |
| 4 | My sister was divorced two years ago , and he does n't really get on with her . |
| 5 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 6 | And it used to be very fashionable to say that Thucydides was much the better of these two historians , he was describing erm a war in which he himself took part , he weighed the evidence very carefully , erm he produced very incisive statements about individuals and about problems , and that Herodotus had a lot of myth in what he wrote , and he was more wide-ranging , and he did n't really have the same standards of truth that Thucydides had had . |
| 7 | He did n't say anything and he did n't really look at her . |
| 8 | Pension mortgages and this mortgage and and he did n't really know how er er cos that that foreign Lucy or whatever her name was |