Example sentences of "[verb] never really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he has never really fitted in since Kendall brought him down from Scotland more than a year ago . |
| 2 | You can see why Sean Young has never really fitted in . |
| 3 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 4 | They would know the real meaning of religious freedom , something which has never really existed throughout religious history . |
| 5 | Yet even Eubank , deep down , does question his continuation in a sport that he has never really liked . |
| 6 | EVEN though the ghastly Every Loser Wins was the best selling single of 1986 , Nick Berry has never really cashed in as a pop star . |
| 7 | But it has never really shown that it has any new ideas about where it should end up . |
| 8 | As the fish died it changed colours like a rainbow , and he left his body and has never really returned to it . |
| 9 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 10 | Silvio has never really recovered from that . ’ |
| 11 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 12 | It 's a funny thing the way podoeroticism has never really caught on in the West , what with sex being so popular and all . |
| 13 | Since the failure of ZTT and Sputnik particularly , it has never really seemed likely that our own spiky tarts could share the limelight with the outright MOR . |
| 14 | Charles was too sensitive for his liking , too intellectual , too philosophical , and although Charles adored his father and has spent a lifetime trying to please him and be as he would like , he has never really succeeded . |
| 15 | Yet this form of schooling has never really succeeded in England and has been surrounded by hostile controversy and apathy . |
| 16 | Gifted The mantle of captaincy has never really settled on Azharuddin 's shoulders for while he remains a gifted and wristy batsmen , he is a shy , sensitive person . |
| 17 | He has never really taken off , but keep with him , he has steady sales . |
| 18 | But H&C has never really addressed the question of why these diverse businesses should be together . |
| 19 | It seems that Mr Stringer has never really enjoyed a close relationship with the supporters since , but that could all change at Hillsborough tomorrow afternoon . |
| 20 | Though Page is a very fine photographer , he has never really bettered the work he did in Vietnam . |
| 21 | My own ‘ anthropological history ’ in this liminoid phase became extended over eight years , until 1974 , and not only gave me time to reflect on many of the controls we were required to impose , but also to consider the nature of the social harm these unworldly folk devils and ‘ drug fiends ’ were actually causing ; for established society has never really known how to handle the unworldly easily . |
| 22 | However , this has never really come off . |
| 23 | ‘ Murtach has never really failed , so he does not know such things happen . ’ |
| 24 | Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called , he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else . |
| 25 | With the shamelessness of the truly selfish man who has never really had to consider another 's feelings he stopped the Archdeacon dead and , taking his fork from his fish , said , ‘ What about Gray ? ’ |
| 26 | Yet despite his undoubted success Reid has never really got past the stage of being regarded as a ‘ nearly man ’ a jockey who never quite clicked with the racing public . |
| 27 | To his surprise he finds himself basically in agreement on a wide range of questions which he has never really thought about before . |
| 28 | Pip has never really thought about his features until this point and from then on wants to be a gentleman because he has instantly fallen in love with Estella and wants to impress her , and make her love him . |
| 29 | ‘ It would fill up Wembley , sell it out — a major heavyweight fight between two Britons , something that has never really happened before . ’ |
| 30 | Anyway , Alfred could n't believe his luck ; he 'd never really made it with girls and here he was hitting the jackpot . |