Example sentences of "really did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also — and I 'm quite prepared to admit this — because of all the problems I was having trying to find work , just at that moment I really did n't want the bother of hunting for a new home . |
| 2 | I really did n't want that . |
| 3 | ‘ I really did think you 'd gone , dear , ’ he said . |
| 4 | She looked at him longingly , Wondering if he really did want to have an affair with her . |
| 5 | Steam really did come to an end on BR when the state-owned narrow-gauge Vale of Rheidol was sold , not without tears , to the Brecon Mountain Railway . |
| 6 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 7 | Not because I actually felt at home with all the ‘ weirdos ’ in there but because the shop really did look like my nan 's house . |
| 8 | The same glorious sensation as she had felt that instant when , poised on the highest diving-board , she had known that this time she really did dare , that moment of poise and thrill before the free-fall . |
| 9 | The reason it was suffering a decline was because its product was no longer meeting the aspirations of the young mums in this country , and while other companies were improving their product ranges Mothercare had become stuck in a groove , because the very competent man who ran it really did n't know how to go about improving the product . |
| 10 | Men who could use these things comfortably would have to be three metres tall , and when they came I really did n't want to be there . |
| 11 | Today rucsacs can be delightful to carry , a world apart from my heap of the 1960s , but in those days I really did not like backpacking . |
| 12 | I really did n't want her to go , but she had to . |
| 13 | But I really did n't want to go to Combe Court . |
| 14 | I did n't want to be naughty , but I really did n't want to go to Combe Court . |
| 15 | I thought it was Annie — I really did . |
| 16 | I really did n't want to stay there , even if we did play sports and everything . |
| 17 | If Rank seriously thought that his directors could work to order and effectively fill the gap in the release schedules , notwithstanding the audience 's proven affection for US pictures , then he really did know very little about film production . |
| 18 | ‘ My daughters said I should come here to help clear this thing up , to find who really did this because unless it is cleared up then history will say that we were sent to our deaths by Britain , and that means the British people and the British army and they do n't deserve that because it is out of character . ’ |
| 19 | IT may never be known whether the Syrian army ever really did intend to seize Baabda Palace , drive out General Michel Aoun , and install the new President , Elias Hrawi , in his place . |
| 20 | Mrs Ullman looked at her toes and said she really did n't know . |
| 21 | As Dana Gillespie recalls , ‘ I 'm sure everyone 's got a different version of it , and I really did n't witness any rows , but I would often hear from my assistant who would tell me he 'd just come back from MainMan offices and the door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum , and there were raised voices between David and him in there . |
| 22 | David was n't very happy about me being so blunt , but I think in a way it made him realise that I was really straightforward and that I really did care . |
| 23 | At the time David was going through , what I suppose you could call an apprenticeship and he really did n't know what he wanted to do . |
| 24 | It 's funny , I never really did like him and Ken Pitt thought I always wanted them to be together . |
| 25 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 26 | I 'm sure everybody 's got a different version of it and I really did n't witness any rows . |
| 27 | I really did n't know . |
| 28 | I was so concerned that I also really did n't trust other people or stupid books to explain to me whereas usually , in most things I do , if I do n't understand them I 'll go to the library and get books and read about it and find out . |
| 29 | Perhaps she really did think Grandma was being used . |
| 30 | Clarissa really did n't . |