Example sentences of "not really [verb] [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 2 | To what I suppose would happen possibly about eighty percent of the time , where you 're working , you 've worked yourself off to do a superb drawing of a house all day , and er , the branch manager or whoever it may be , is walking round passing quotes , and walks off not really showing any general interest in this superb picture I 've just spent all my time doing . |
| 3 | It 's , it 's erm I think it 's quite interesting cos it 's a different style , in a sense it 's just setting out some goals that they want to achieve but not really giving any clear instruction of how you can achieve those goals . |
| 4 | Locking up formes did not really require much physical effort either , nor , once you had been shown how to do it , very much skill . |
| 5 | They do n't know how useful it would be but anyway , they said there , there 's , it 's a slightly odd event because it 's actually going to be just in the Civic Centre , and er , and kind of tacking on some workshops and things , so I 'm going to help her with workshops and have a display stand and so on but other than that , we 've not really got any direct input into it , because it is very much , sort of , you know , this is how you do business in France , these are the financial problems , type of thing . |
| 6 | It 's a trick you fall back on if you ca n't really do any original thinking — you devise a new research procedure to ‘ confirm ’ an already established theory . |
| 7 | ‘ But we also like to get the dynamics right … and I ca n't really sing any other way . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , I know your parents do n't really eat much sweet stuff , but do you have , generally have any sweet stuff in the house , really or is it |
| 9 | And I mean you do n't really need all that space . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't really understand all this Italian , ’ said Kaler , who played a paranoid John Paul II , as he tried to decipher it afterwards . |
| 11 | Hallo sir , you 're calling about your daughter , Jennifer , erm I 'm sorry , I do n't really have any more information to add to what we told you on the twentieth . |
| 12 | Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit now comes in a new Windows flavour , and with only six on-screen buttons to push ( one of them is the exit button ) , you ca n't really get any simpler selection of what is very powerful anti-virus software . |