Example sentences of "did [adv] really [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had quite a restless night , and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning . |
| 2 | Trespass did not really fit the case because the harm was consequential , not direct . |
| 3 | Haute couture in the tomb did not really preoccupy the majority of the populace and , in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , the system of requisitioning a single linen sheet from the household supply seemed to be the norm . |
| 4 | She did not really like The Soldier 's Tale ( ‘ I was all into swans and tutus ’ , she explained ) but was impressed by the duet for the soldier and the Scarlet Woman . |
| 5 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 6 | His wife , Elizabeth , has told Mollie that they did not really get the view that it was coming their way until the next week ; but , in fact , it was . |
| 7 | Harvey , nearly thirty years younger than Morris , did not really get the point , but with that courtesy for which the rising junior minister is rightly celebrated laughed generously in response . |
| 8 | In 1835 , for example , just five years after Roberts had sketched the recumbent city of Jerusalem , we find the French writer Alphonse de Lamartine returning from a visit there to recommend to his readers in Voyage to the Orient that since Palestine did not really constitute a country , it presented remarkable opportunities for imperial or colonial projects . |
| 9 | He did not really understand the conversation , but he knew that the Woman was being attacked . |
| 10 | At times the broadcasters themselves did not really understand the significance of what they were broadcasting , so it was hardly surprising that their listeners took the same view : enthusiasm , and the lack of it , are equally infectious . |
| 11 | The idea of Kevin 's rewarding him for his prowess with a real lunch somewhere acted as a spur to Jasper , but he did not really need a spur . |
| 12 | So obvious is this problem that it did not really need a questionnaire to highlight it . |
| 13 | No hostage was released , the excuse given by Ghorbanifar being that Iran did not really need the TOW missiles so they were not counted in the exchange deal . |
| 14 | In the next example the boys , with the pedal car , had already made their decision on size and did not really need the teacher to question them about it , but they were obviously quite used to talking with her . |
| 15 | Stewart , who had been playing well , hammered his first ball down the throat of third man , and with West Indies taking time-wasting tactics to the extreme — 16.5 overs in around two hours — England did not really have a hope . |
| 16 | Once my father had been laid in his bed , I was a little uncertain as to how to proceed ; for while it seemed undesirable that I leave my father in such a condition , I did not really have a moment more to spare . |
| 17 | I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life . |
| 18 | As he had once said , he did not really have the temperament of a gunner . |
| 19 | Again she was a busy young mother who did not really find the time to mourn for the loss of her unborn children . |
| 20 | Maybe she did n't really feel a chill in the air . |
| 21 | I did n't really feel a thing until about 5.30 p.m. when I began to feel a sort of tightening of the stomach , not a pain . |
| 22 | Oh that 's erm your objection er was nobody had seen me and you did n't really answer the question clients by coming in to their homes you know , Martin made the comment er that in actual fact nobody had seen them seen them in six or seven years so I thought that was a possibility for a just er oh n maybe not as deep a but nevertheless erm there was a good , good pause er er how did you er come to be with Friends Provident er you , it was good that you asked er er if the wife would be attending the second meeting , that was an important thing . |
| 23 | It did n't really mean a lot . |
| 24 | I had to spend three days in bed and did n't really kick a ball in the build-up to the Highfield Road game . |
| 25 | Although widely regarded as an excellent ‘ debut ’ , it did n't really capture the band 's fiery live shows . |
| 26 | Although widely regarded as an excellent ‘ debut ’ , it did n't really capture the band 's fiery live shows . |
| 27 | Mum , there was a rabbit but we did n't really want a rabbit . |
| 28 | Lilian , a girl who had acted irresponsibly , did n't really want a baby at all . |
| 29 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 30 | They did n't really get a hold did they ? |