Example sentences of "[not/n't] really [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hijack Englishness and do not really speak for most English people . |
| 2 | C — Closed : The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 3 | C — Closed The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 4 | C — Closed — The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 5 | Most of the time we do not really think about this but sometimes it is interesting to see how our language changes according to the role we play . |
| 6 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 7 | The famous ‘ secrecy ’ of the Messiah in St Mark 's Gospel , for instance ( 'See thou say nothing to any man' ) , does not really fit into either of Lewis 's categories of raving lunatic or self-proclaimed Divinity . |
| 8 | Mark could not really enter into such things . |
| 9 | He can also play at fullback and handles the place-kicking duties well , and looks a player of genuine class , although this may not really blossom on this tour . |
| 10 | Yes , as you say , I was n't in the Cabinet so I ca n't really speak with any authority at all about how he conducted affairs there . |
| 11 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 12 | I could n't really cope with this separation , despite that fact that we live only about a minute from the SCBU . |
| 13 | Umm , the kids come round here to get all their toys so there 's a big sort of ridge there so it ca n't really go over that |
| 14 | And then you 've got different colours that do n't really go with that , but |
| 15 | Well you see , hardly anybody ever sa they do n't really sit in this area , all they do is er , I mean , they only sit |
| 16 | " Well , sir , " said Hazel , " my brother does n't really think about these feelings he gets . |
| 17 | I do n't really think at that time I would have had enough experience to justify going on the staff . |
| 18 | But perhaps Evan still thinks too much , or perhaps he does n't think enough or , then again , perhaps he does n't really think at all … |
| 19 | I did n't really think at all , not about where I was going , nor about what I would do when I got there . |
| 20 | No , that would be I do n't really think of that when I , I do n't think I do n't think anybody went to see her , but I think she 'd been done a bit better . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't really think of any reason why vegetarians should be considered effeminate . |
| 22 | There are areas of contention — I ca n't really think of any at the moment — but I 'll tell you I am in extremely good books at the moment , because I cooked Christmas lunch . |
| 23 | I ca n't think of yeah well I ca n't really think of any at the moment , yeah . |
| 24 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 25 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 26 | It 's all right , honey , I do n't really talk like that , I do it to irritate Matt , though it usually does n't because he 's so thick-skinned and thinks everyone else talks like that anyway , so I guess I do it for my own private amusement . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't really say about that , ’ she said , ‘ but — ’ launching into a text learned by heart — ‘ although guilty of many deviations from Marxism-Leninism and Socialist legality , Stalin did lead the heroic resistance of the Soviet peoples in the anti-Fascist war . ’ |
| 28 | Maybe what I thought I saw happen to them both did n't really happen at all . ’ |
| 29 | I ca n't really abide by that myself . |
| 30 | It did n't really seem like that at the time . |