Example sentences of "do [not/n't] really [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 2 | France 's increased commitment to space , which dates from the late 1950s , did not really come to fruition until the late 1970s . |
| 3 | So , well before we get on to any issues to do with the structural poverty of the Third World , maintained by the wealth extracting efforts and arrangements of our Western world , we can surely see why quite a few people do not really believe in recovery through economic growth and consumption and we need to ask whether we ought to want it anyway , but people in the Tory Party and in the Labour Party in the City with a capital C and the trade unions with a Capital T and a U go on talking as if our goal must be jobs and recovery in the same old way , technologized , computerized and skillerlized of course with strong dashes of management insights and so on |
| 4 | The image did n't really spring into life , rather vague , figure behind glass , partly Julia , partly the girl he 'd met on holiday . |
| 5 | a transcription you remember last year , we had about one week on phonetics , and John , some people came to the John talk , where we did n't really talk about phonetics script there . |
| 6 | cos really , we did n't really go into cost relations |
| 7 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 8 | Peter did n't really shine at school . |
| 9 | Unfortunately Anthony usually chose college friends and Nigel did n't really take to bluestocking women . |
| 10 | But then the middle classes do n't really figure in Labour 's plans , unless you count £500-a-plate fund-raising dinners at the Grosvenor Hotel . |
| 11 | I do n't really keep in touch with anyone from prison now . |
| 12 | Sarah and Elsa with two really crap raggers are on the stage and we do n't really wan na sort of socialize with them so we , basically we 've got nowhere to see this lunchtime . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't really believe in marriage , but I did n't want to lose my husband either , so I gave in , ’ she explains . |
| 14 | I do n't really agree with boarding schools . |
| 15 | There is no stabilized figure corresponding to the later producer or director , who does not really appear in theatre until the late nineteenth century . |
| 16 | ‘ The hours are long , but it does n't really feel like work . |
| 17 | From a practical standpoint we are suffering from some jail overcrowding problems here and certainly this was one option to take an offender who does n't really belong behind iron bars and punish them at home , and from a personal standpoint I was sort of intrigued with the novelty of it all and the technology aspects of it . |
| 18 | ‘ That does n't really sound like food , does it . |