Example sentences of "not really [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you think of er It 's not really referring to the beauty of the world . |
| 2 | In truth the Sergeant was not really listening to the Lieutenant 's enthusiastic explanation ; instead he was partly anticipating the Belgian girls and partly worrying when this headlong advance would run into the enemy picquets . |
| 3 | Publishers frequently cite this as a reason for not really getting behind the sale , and putting better titles into it . |
| 4 | So we are not really talking about the survival of the earth , we are talking about the survival of the sort of earth we want . |
| 5 | So you 're not really concentrating on the television , because you do n't have to . |
| 6 | I was n't really thinking at the time . |
| 7 | At that time , September was a long way away , in fact I was n't really thinking beyond the date that my baby was due , the 6th of April . |
| 8 | The missing boy was n't really interfering with the progress of the Connon case , because the progress only existed in theory . |