Example sentences of "[not/n't] really [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |
| 2 | ‘ That must have cost a pretty penny , ’ Mickey Aronson declared , not really expecting to be told the price . |
| 3 | I shall not really want to . |
| 4 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 5 | But when you think of er It 's not really referring to the beauty of the world . |
| 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 | In truth the Sergeant was not really listening to the Lieutenant 's enthusiastic explanation ; instead he was partly anticipating the Belgian girls and partly worrying when this headlong advance would run into the enemy picquets . |
| 9 | And I 'm not really prepared to be that … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They 're , they 're not really related to true finances . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Tennant explained that this was partly because payments for the LVMH shares had been delayed , but added : ‘ We are not really exposed to UK interest rates . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) . |
| 16 | Well I believe so , I 've not really spoken to her |
| 17 | Although the unanimity of rural enthusiasm for army policies is open to question , it is clear that the rural community did not really turn to the left in its search for a solution to its problems . |
| 18 | Well , he killed Olympia , not really meaning to , but definitely by putting her life at risk . |
| 19 | Women often feel that they are not at risk because they do not feel themselves to be associated with any of the so called ‘ high risk groups ’ and , although we are encouraged to have safer sex , AIDS does not really seem to be an issue for us . |
| 20 | The account of ideology that Marx offers does not really amount to a ‘ theory of ideology ’ . |
| 21 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 22 | Shaft performance data derived from a testing machine do not really apply to the ‘ real ’ golf swing . |
| 23 | Then before she could stop herself she asked : ‘ You 're not really going to Australia are you , Harriet ? ’ |
| 24 | People live in the real world , their not really going to be influenced , its about as sensible as saying er a Mills and Boon novel for example tells people about love are saying M I five use from Russia with Love as a training manual its the same kind of level of |
| 25 | Still , if you knew the pressure on beds here during the Festival you would be glad not to be in a tent in the gardens — often the fate of the young I do not , however , anticipate being away , as I can not really afford to be ( either literally £££ ) or away from job search which gets daily more depressing . |
| 26 | But she did not want to — could not really afford to — offend him . |
| 27 | I 'm not really entitled to anything . |
| 28 | The provision of a single accumulator does not really correspond to the way in which most programs are written , since at any given point there are usually several intermediate values all of which are in the process of being manipulated . |
| 29 | as if I was not really meant to be here . |
| 30 | Yes they 're not really meant to be sent out |