Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [not/n't] really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Souness said : ‘ Stewart has not really started his Liverpool career yet because of injuries . |
| 2 | Actually the government and the people of Kuwait did not really stop , erm only providing assistance to the Palestinians who are living in Kuwait . |
| 3 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 4 | Scott did n't really care . |
| 5 | As long as he could drive , Edward did not really care about his condition , and the man , Corporal Miller from Dundee , was perfectly capable behind the wheel of the Austin Ten . |
| 6 | Jane Eyre did n't really look upon erm , erm herself as giving up her independence er by marrying Rochester did she ? |
| 7 | Millie did n't really understand . |
| 8 | Richard did not really forget though . |
| 9 | When I think of the difference between Carla and Neil Neil does n't really want to do anything ! |
| 10 | Even the Nobel prize winner for physiology and medicine , Sir Charles Sherrington , dedicated his prize-winning speech to Alexander 's work , but even to this day Alexander has not really received the recognition he so richly deserves . |
| 11 | This was proof , according to the Commission , that : ‘ Mr Nkrumah has not really departed one jot from his avowed aim for a Union of West African Soviet Socialist Republics . |
| 12 | ‘ Spain has not really changed you . ’ |
| 13 | Although Christopher did n't really see much of them did he ? |
| 14 | Jane did not really care , and told Bertram — he was offended if you called him Bertie to his face — about it . |
| 15 | One of the reasons why Constanze did not really come into her own until after Mozart 's death may well have been that she spent much of her married life in various debilitating stages of pregnancy , bearing six children ( of whom only two survived ) . |
| 16 | Unfortunately Anthony usually chose college friends and Nigel did n't really take to bluestocking women . |
| 17 | Stewart , who had been playing well , hammered his first ball down the throat of third man , and with West Indies taking time-wasting tactics to the extreme — 16.5 overs in around two hours — England did not really have a hope . |
| 18 | And as , as we said before , erm , many of the , erm people who lived in the poorer parts of erm the country , whether in urban or rural En erm England did n't really know about basic nutrition and and health I mean you just ate what was available but you did n't know why and so the government started this campaign to introduce you know knowledge about diet and how important it was . |
| 19 | Benny did n't really want her to come to the party , but for once Mother had been insistent . |
| 20 | Benny did n't really believe Eve about Sean having ambitions to marry into the shop , but there was something deeply unsettled all right about the way he looked at her . |
| 21 | No wonder Collias did n't really enthuse me . |
| 22 | One of the bizarre things I find today is that England does n't really like traders . |
| 23 | Are you aware that Janice does n't really love you ? |
| 24 | Rory did n't really know Fergus Urvill very well ; although he did sometimes visit Lochgair , he spoke differently — posher — and seemed to spend a lot of his time shooting at birds and animals with other rich people . |
| 25 | He never took into account that Eddie did n't really want to make a career as a racing driver — ’ |
| 26 | We may generously assume that Hippel did not really believe what he said , but was merely putting a rhetorical flourish on a widely-accepted piece of wisdom . |
| 27 | She said well I know , cos when Elaine went to pick it up she said , Elaine told her I would n't want to make the choice out of two typewriters , I just said Pam did n't really care what she had as long as she had one |
| 28 | There are other ways people have tried to protect the minority , one is by saying that the , that you can generate a certain set of rights from within the democratic procedure in a different way , that is if democracies flourish people need certain liberties , people need to express their own opinions , people need to be able to do what erm assemble where they need to and so on but more common is the view that democracy should be limited by constitutional would present the minority and this is a view that Mill does n't really defend in representative government although it seems to be very close to his view and on liberty , that is we limit the spear that this government has control over so we ca n't , so in this view erm democracy is given a very limited role . |
| 29 | Sometimes I think Leila and Quincx do n't really give a damn about you . |
| 30 | Harry did n't really have his heart at the Centre and was only there to please his wife . |