Example sentences of "n't really [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't really thinking at the time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It did n't really go with the rest of it did it ? |
| 4 | But I mean it did n't really go with the rest of the things . |
| 5 | The trouble was , Alexandra thought , walking into her kitchen wrapped in a bath sheet , the trouble was that you could n't really go with the flow until you 'd had time to work out which way it was going . |
| 6 | But erm but they do n't , they do n't really complain about the complex as a whole . |
| 7 | As one of these ‘ buttons ’ is the exit button , you ca n't really improve on the application 's simplicity ! |
| 8 | I was n't really looking at the faces , as such , and I immediately felt drawn to one of the men . |
| 9 | She had drunk several glasses of wine and did n't really care at the moment . |
| 10 | Erm , we had a erm , I had an aunt and uncle , they lived in Southend , and they used to like to come up and perform em , he had a violin and she used to play the piano , and my erm , father did n't really care for the music , but they liked sort of opera and stuff like that |
| 11 | But Edward went on to tell her that she did n't really care for the children , she only liked to think she did , to make herself feel good . |
| 12 | She liked flowers and planted flowers in their garden but he often felt she did n't really care about the moor . |
| 13 | The electrons balance the forces of course , but they do n't really contribute to the mass . |
| 14 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 15 | I know he has n't really gone to the shops . |
| 16 | Well if it was me to keep it balanced I usually put the bigger ones near the bottom or on one side so that the small bit are at the top and the big bits are at the bottom and artistically it looks a bit better balanced but it does n't really matter for the maths where you put it . |
| 17 | It does n't really matter to the parent , which offspring has gained , as long as there is a net gain . |
| 18 | And that does n't really matter in the theatre because you carry on |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't really thought beyond the birth . |
| 20 | Ian , I wish we could go on talking endlessly about this because I find the subject quite fascinating and we have n't really talked about the details of your research . |
| 21 | She does n't really belong to the drama group now , she came out in September . |
| 22 | But you could n't really argue at the way we played . ’ |
| 23 | But you could n't really argue at the way we played . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Well , we do n't really jam in the studio — we just go and record the songs . |
| 25 | Could n't really see in the corner whether it was going , so tight . |
| 26 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 27 | And I have n't really recovered from the shock . |
| 28 | But it has n't really bitten into the issue of how we can control and operate and exploit the total environment . |
| 29 | I suppose my point is that if things are to get better ( or should I say keep getting better ) then we ca n't really look to the likes of Mel to come back . |
| 30 | I bought a Volvo estate care from the Oxford Used Car Centre and I had done rather quite high mileage which I sort of did n't really look at the mileage when I bought it . |