Example sentences of "not really [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars . |
| 5 | Some of these fixed stars do , in fact , appear to change very slightly their positions relative to each other as the earth orbits around the sun : they are not really fixed at all ! |
| 6 | I 'm not really living at all . |
| 7 | Not really sleeping at all . |
| 8 | The pattern of attacks has not really changed at all ; the Iraqis go for the Iranian oil tankers on the shuttle from Kharg Island to Larak Island , and the Iranians then retaliate with a burst of rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire against almost any vessel unaccompanied by a warship . |
| 9 | It is fighters which save them therefore the message is that they 're not really rescued at all because the world is in the same situation as the island . |
| 10 | Er the wages were n't really moving at all in these shor er times . |
| 11 | He turned away , and when he had got a safe distance , he began to whistle — a moist whistle that said he was n't really disturbed at all about Arty 's strange behaviour . |
| 12 | I do n't really think at that time I would have had enough experience to justify going on the staff . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | I did n't really think at all , not about where I was going , nor about what I would do when I got there . |
| 15 | It was so loud and so deep it was n't really sound at all , just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it . |
| 16 | Maybe what I thought I saw happen to them both did n't really happen at all . ’ |
| 17 | Susanna 's one does n't really work at all , but my one 's just like lukewarm . |
| 18 | you do n't really look at that at along |
| 19 | Probably Jordan had n't really spoken at all , he was a kind of doppelganger telling Coffin not only what he ought to do , but what he also knew . |
| 20 | ‘ You mean , you do n't really know at all ? ’ |
| 21 | And that 's something we must do before the next meeting so that I can answer the questions , cos we do n't really know at this moment . |
| 22 | Basically , of course , he had n't really changed at all . |