Example sentences of "[vb past] not really [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently it did not really manage to achieve the level of plausibility of the more popularly accepted opposite view of classical criminology — that official processing deters further deviant acts . |
| 2 | The decline in numbers did not really set in until after the Second World War , when elephants were , incidentally , used to carry ammunition during the Burma campaign . |
| 3 | I wrote in great haste and under some excitement , from the statements to which I referred , [ Palmerston 's remarks ] and plead this as my excuse if I expressed what I did not really intend . |
| 4 | This drew the comment from Bertrand Russell that both East and West did not really want disarmament . |
| 5 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 6 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 7 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 8 | Lisa always knew she did not really want her baby adapted , and before she was even born had decided against it . |
| 9 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 10 | I do n't much care which , ’ said Fenella , who did not really want Caspar to ride off and leave her alone out here , but who was not going to get so close to Nuadu and then ride away and leave him . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 12 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |
| 13 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 14 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 15 | At break , although the Russells Hall pupils took the Sutton pupils outside , the two groups did not really mingle or play together . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It seemed a strange request , and although I did not really feel like accepting , he politely insisted . |
| 18 | It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough . |
| 19 | Then , because of these questionable and unnatural methods , doctors began to insist that ‘ regularity ’ did not really matter . |
| 20 | Her credibility increased when she advised me that it did not really matter whether I believed in homeopathy or not . |
| 21 | I was invited to write this article before the election , around the proposition that the policy differences between the parties were so narrow that it did not really matter who won — a political worldweariness with which I sharply disagreed . |
| 22 | From the ancient hierarchical point of view ( unchanged from Aristotle to Kant and beyond ) it could not matter because women themselves did not really matter . |
| 23 | It was suggested that the extension of the period to three years from one required the attribution of a different meaning because the Theophile construction meant that it did not really matter what the period was ; as long as there was a debt , a bankruptcy petition could be presented . |
| 24 | I did not argue ; it did not really matter if he believed me or not . |
| 25 | Richard did not really forget though . |
| 26 | I had quite a restless night , and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning . |
| 27 | Trespass did not really fit the case because the harm was consequential , not direct . |
| 28 | At a meeting of the commissars of the Roslavl' garrison the military commander of the town hospital admitted that the political cell in his institution did not really exist , although there were occasional discussions of newspaper articles . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If the relationship between two variables entirely disappears when a causally prior variable is brought under control , we say that the original relationship was spurious ; by this we do not mean that the bivariate effect did not really exist , but rather that causal conclusions drawn from it would be incorrect . |