Example sentences of "[pers pn] did n't really [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern .
2 I did n't really wake up until we made the short boat trip to Ellis Island .
3 I did n't really blame you for not wanting me to come near you , but it was n't a particularly pleasant experience to realise that I 'd put someone I 'd loved through such an appalling time .
4 On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect .
5 I have to say I did n't really care much for that kind of approach .
6 And by the end of the two weeks I was just slapping paint here , there and everywhere and I painted over all the locks and things like that , because I did n't really care too much about it .
7 So I did n't really meet Tessa until I went on holiday to America and we were introduced by a mutual friend .
8 Oh , no I did n't really matter
9 I did n't really want to marry her or nothing , but I thought , you know , that we was friends like .
10 He said , ‘ What can I do for you ? ’ and I said ‘ I did n't really want to get out of anything ; I 'm OK . ’
11 I did n't really want to be a pretty little girl then .
12 What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments .
13 I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’
14 This is a step I did n't really want to take as the text books and scientific articles indicate that the fry feed on a mucus secretion on the parents flanks which is necessary to their health .
15 I did n't really want it .
16 I did n't really want to start a relationship like that .
17 The only thing is , I did n't really want to be a tailoress , I wanted to be a nurse , but had n't much choice , then .
18 I do n't know , I did n't really want to work in an office .
19 I did n't really want had a mastectomy. another lump there .
20 I did n't really want that man anyhow . ’
21 ‘ I did n't want the students to be ’ , she recalls , ‘ I did n't really want anybody to be , and I certainly did n't think students had any right to be .
22 The journey had been long , hot and tiring and to add to my list I did n't really want to come home .
23 She knew I did n't really want you — or anyone . ’
24 Erm I 'm not really ans answering the question but I I did n't really want to get on to that one it 's just
25 And I felt that I did n't really want to do this at a time when I was still floundering about and not having very disciplined classes and so on .
26 To say I did n't have time would not be true , but that I did n't really want to make time .
27 So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds .
28 I actually wanted to that I did n't really want to go as far as for example deciding that the chair what they are voting would be within the resources available to the .
29 I really want to get , I er , I I want you to , I did n't really want to make it to four , I did n't want to get it too formalized because I think that sometimes gets in the way of real information .
30 I know I 'd had to smash the door , he had to smash the door open with a spade , the lock for me , cos , he , he , he could n't get , he tried er taking that panel out at the bottom and he could n't get it out and I did n't really want him to smash the double glazed glass , in fact it , that would of been very difficult
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