Example sentences of "really [verb] [prep] [det] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I have a lot in common with the people who watch the show , and I think one of the things which has made me popular — even at the start , when I was n't very good , when I was nervous — was that people could really relate to this unsettled black guy on television . |
2 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
3 | There 's this guy , see , he thinks he 's pretty street-smart , but sometimes these things happen , he 's not so sure , and he wonders , can he really tell about this one particular girl , who he really likes her , but you ca n't tell by looking , can you ? ’ |
4 | Well I certainly would n't have thought about it , and I do n't think any chemist would have believed it , and in fact what happened was it really came from this other esoteric sort of project that we were doing . |
5 | Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . |