Example sentences of "[not/n't] really [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall not really want to . |
| 2 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 3 | There is no stabilized figure corresponding to the later producer or director , who does not really appear in theatre until the late nineteenth century . |
| 4 | It seemed a strange request , and although I did not really feel like accepting , he politely insisted . |
| 5 | They hijack Englishness and do not really speak for most English people . |
| 6 | Yet this does not really speak to the conservatives ' point . |
| 7 | Godfrey Carey , for the prosecution , told the jury that the young woman had ‘ only taken a lift from someone in whose hands you could not really expect to be more safe — an officer in uniform ’ . |
| 8 | This sort of experiment shows however that with materials of this character one can not really distinguish between practical strength and brittleness so that the introduction of weak internal surfaces can be regarded as raising the strength . |
| 9 | ‘ Constanza and I did not really talk about Michel . |
| 10 | C — Closed : The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 11 | C — Closed The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 12 | C — Closed — The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 13 | They were in neither half of the house , but in a space that did not really exist for Maggie , who never asked herself which half the house was whose , since the whole house was , for her , theirs . |
| 14 | And yet Alice kept thinking that Pat , no matter how committed she sounded now , did not really stand by Bert . |
| 15 | By rights they should now be quietly decomposing in Manchester , having tried out their experimental rhythm rock surrealism only to discover that self-analytical dance with guitars could not really compete with belching ego-Mancs who wanted to be adored or abhorred . |
| 16 | This orthodox view does not really rest on factual evidence , though such evidence is sometimes brought in to back it . |
| 17 | At one extreme , there are species that live in the sea and never move , such as bivalve molluscs , and others that do move , such as starfish , in which the sexes do not really associate for breeding at all . |
| 18 | However , this was an exceptional attitude as there was widespread scepticism of radio as a teaching medium and its possibilities did not really materialise for at least another decade . |
| 19 | One does not really think of saving dolphins as connected with social change , but essentially Greenpeace 's claim is not exaggerated . |
| 20 | Most of the time we do not really think about this but sometimes it is interesting to see how our language changes according to the role we play . |
| 21 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 22 | Again we do not really compare to the six above + Blackburn , although the strikers are on almost on a par with most compared to the defence . |
| 23 | To return to crack propagation in brittle solids , it does not really matter for our present purposes whether fracture is initiated by a dynamic blow or by a static load . |
| 24 | It does not really matter for our purposes what the variable is . |
| 25 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 26 | Most of us do not really aspire to developing huge muscles , enabling us to lift great weights , but , by developing extra strength , the muscles are then working well within their capability for most everyday tasks . |
| 27 | The famous ‘ secrecy ’ of the Messiah in St Mark 's Gospel , for instance ( 'See thou say nothing to any man' ) , does not really fit into either of Lewis 's categories of raving lunatic or self-proclaimed Divinity . |
| 28 | A department store like Harrods , which sells more expensive products , would be inappropriate in an area where 75% of people are out of work , just as a cut-price ‘ saver ’ store would not really fit in Knightsbridge . |
| 29 | As long as he could drive , Edward did not really care about his condition , and the man , Corporal Miller from Dundee , was perfectly capable behind the wheel of the Austin Ten . |
| 30 | The flute did not really go with a guitar and sax . |