Example sentences of "have [adv] really [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the linguist , it is clear at once that she has not really managed to speak JC , she has just made an imitation of it which might fool people not really familiar with that language . |
| 2 | ‘ My swing has not really had to alter , but I am probably hitting my drives 20 yards shorter and I 'm needing two or three irons longer than I needed before the accident . ’ |
| 3 | In terms of review of staggered hours erm the review is sort of a constant one which has not really come to head yet , in terms of actually being able to write something down , so I 'm we 'll be able to as soon as we , as soon I 've something which we erm , come to any conclusions in terms of staggered hours . |
| 4 | Darkman has been billed as Sam Raimi 's move toward mainstream Hollywood , though given the current fascination for comic-book movies , he has n't really had to move that far . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | I 've always really had to depend on having someone else for the intricate stuff so that I can keep things fairly simple for myself . |
| 7 | Uncle Walter had n't really wanted to part with it . |
| 8 | But I had n't really wanted to involve you . ’ |
| 9 | I got up quickly , as I had n't really started to drop off when it went , and ran down to get there before my father . |
| 10 | I told myself that not only had I not had a choice , but that in fact I had n't really needed to make one . |
| 11 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 12 | I have known turnstones all my life as common winter visitors to the coastal areas of Britain , and I have seen them on their breeding-grounds in Lapland and in Spitsbergen , but I had n't really expected to find that they were ‘ bird-table ’ visitors in the Seychelles . |
| 13 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 14 | You 've never really seemed to care . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've never really tried to have a proposition , ’ says Abbott . |
| 16 | Today , I was going to Corfu — I had never really wanted to go there , but one day I saw an advertisement in the newspaper . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Implementation of the Community Care Act is now upon us , yet many organisations have not really begun to explain to potential clients and stakeholders in the wider community exactly what care management is , who care managers are , what they will do , and what a care package can include . |
| 19 | The specificity of cognitive accounts of particular ages is so strong that feminist psychologists have not really managed to make links between them or across them . |
| 20 | I do n't know , the last few times I 've tried to come off , I have n't really wanted to come off , thinking about it now . |
| 21 | You have n't really started to live yet , and you 're talking like a woman who 's experienced life . ’ |
| 22 | On the same subject , I suppose I have to point out that I have never really wanted to have children . |