Example sentences of "[pers pn] does [adv] really [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |
| 2 | The new mother is often terrified of making a mistake but she does not really know what is the best thing to do . |
| 3 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 4 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She does n't really care what I do , ’ Matilda said a little sadly . |
| 6 | She says she does n't really want to earn money from the revelations but simply wants to set the story of the Yorks ' marriage straight . |
| 7 | She does n't really talk or |
| 8 | Susan says she does it , but she does n't really do it ! |
| 9 | It is quite breathtaking , for instance , that her sympathies are so strong for another girl whom she sees as literally killing herself with exercise , yet she does n't really extend her sympathies or concern towards herself . |
| 10 | ‘ She does n't really mean it , ’ Robert defended Dawn reluctantly . |
| 11 | She does n't really think you lo you 're a bug then ? |
| 12 | She does n't really belong to the drama group now , she came out in September . |
| 13 | This is Ginny , and she does n't really like college . |
| 14 | She does n't really like fruit at all . ’ |
| 15 | She does n't really like his stuff . |
| 16 | ( She does n't really listen to me when I speak , thought Alice . |
| 17 | She says it 's because the water is pure from the mountain but she does n't really believe it 's just that . |
| 18 | She does n't really believe in them . |
| 19 | Now she takes comfort from the house and garden , so you see she does n't really need me either . ’ |
| 20 | She does n't really know me . |
| 21 | She does n't really know the theatres so that 's the thing |
| 22 | Perhaps she does n't really know what she wants . ’ |
| 23 | She does n't really know what to say . |
| 24 | She does n't really mind any more . |
| 25 | But she does n't really look as though she 's broken loose . |
| 26 | Yeah , well she does n't really understand it . |
| 27 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 28 | He does not really expect her to love him , and when she does it has to be total . |
| 29 | To his right and left spreads a familiar landscape , so familiar that he does not really see it , an expanse of houses and factories , warehouses and sheds , railway lines and canals , piles of scrap metal and heaps of damaged cars , container ports and lorry parks , cooling towers and gasometers . |
| 30 | He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him . |