Example sentences of "[verb] never really [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the shamelessness of the truly selfish man who has never really had to consider another 's feelings he stopped the Archdeacon dead and , taking his fork from his fish , said , ‘ What about Gray ? ’ |
| 2 | He 'd never really felt committed to Polly , even after six or seven years of marriage . |
| 3 | You 've never really seemed to care . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've never really tried to have a proposition , ’ says Abbott . |
| 5 | I 've never really got attached to anyone , I 've been married to my career . |
| 6 | Today , I was going to Corfu — I had never really wanted to go there , but one day I saw an advertisement in the newspaper . |
| 7 | Far from it , indeed , when one remembered Felix Lark who would have been thought half-witted had he not been a baronet , or Amanda Braithwaite who , no matter what her mother said , had never really learned to read . |
| 8 | ‘ I think it was good to meet lots of different people but on the other hand , I have never really felt settled or had lifelong friends like most people , ’ he says . |
| 9 | On the same subject , I suppose I have to point out that I have never really wanted to have children . |