Example sentences of "[not/n't] really have [det] " in BNC.

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1 ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past .
2 It has often been said that he did not really have any very clear idea of what he wanted from his Council ; and as far as content goes , that may be true .
3 Their proposal for a further education funding council does not really have any commitment .
4 At his age , and where he lives , he does n't really have much hope of getting anything more advanced , though he is certainly intelligent and able .
5 Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him
6 So I do n't really have much conversation with a lot of them .
7 It was always like this these days — two colleagues who respected each other but did n't really have much to say .
8 In this case , however , she did n't really have much choice , and the realisation rankled .
9 I did n't really have much idea of what was going on at all .
10 " I do n't really have much time at all , thanks all the same . "
11 You ca n't really have that and these plates on that shelf .
12 Should n't really have that o th , all that .
13 erm so species are , in a sense , real things out there , they 're not an artefact of taxonomists who 've tried to force some classification onto organisms which do n't really have that nature .
14 It had rudimentary listings of events , it had previews , but it did n't really have enough .
15 ‘ I do n't really have any good times any more .
16 I do n't really have any ambitions to change in any drastic ways .
17 I was convinced that my feelings did n't matter and , anyway , I did n't really have any friends .
18 I do n't really have any friends . ’
19 Well , I have lots of hobbies , collecting things — like diamonds , people — I do n't know , I do n't really have any specific hobbies .
20 The difference between this and the Marley one is that with Marley we did n't really have any poster work , it was mainly concentrating on black and white photography .
21 Mother Hilary , a legal secretary , and her golf playing husband Mike , who works at Stormont , encouraged her so that now , she admits , ‘ I do n't really have any hobbies .
22 She did n't really have any choice , for she had no other contacts in Paris .
23 Now the fact that you 've rinsed off with water anyway , you should n't really have any of the cleansing medium on the skin .
24 She did n't really have any idea why she was going there .
25 You do n't really have any inhibitions about stealing , do you , Maria ?
26 Leicester City Council says that with forty thousand light bulbs to install it does n't really have any alternative to starting so early .
27 Er it 's but I do n't really have any problems with with selling er I 'm not hard sell er I do n't believe in er stuffing things down people 's throat .
28 It 's typical , they just accepted it all , so it did n't really achieve a great deal , but Mike told me quite a lot of things that I do n't really have any idea , or I did n't know about ,
29 ‘ I do n't really have any , ’ she faltered .
30 Hallo sir , you 're calling about your daughter , Jennifer , erm I 'm sorry , I do n't really have any more information to add to what we told you on the twentieth .
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