Example sentences of "really [verb] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But back on the marshes and fens , who was really to profit from this continual process of ever more intensive cultivation ? |
| 2 | ‘ And that 's what I really hate about all this , ’ she shot back at him fiercely . |
| 3 | ‘ I have a lot in common with the people who watch the show , and I think one of the things which has made me popular — even at the start , when I was n't very good , when I was nervous — was that people could really relate to this unsettled black guy on television . |
| 4 | Right , so we need to really think about all this from scratch do n't you , mm , pity the others are n't here actually . |
| 5 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 6 | ‘ For another thing , Joanie , what do we really know about these two ? |
| 7 | Perhaps he does go a little over the top with the rubato in the slow movement of K332 , but no-one could really object to such sincere intentions when they are delivered with such conviction and zest . |
| 8 | After this time they were never really separated for any long period , and the course of Dorothy 's life can be regarded as the same as Wordsworth 's . |
| 9 | I had never really noticed before this common use of the label that identified me as a means to imply wilful ignorance . |
| 10 | They hijack Englishness and do not really speak for most English people . |
| 11 | Wondering whether the prim Miss Goody-Goody of a few months ago had really metamorphosed into this forlorn and wanton creature , Miranda said , ‘ I 'll send a car for you . |
| 12 | You could always stand back and say , ‘ I 'm not really going through all that angst and stuff , that 's just my persona . ’ |
| 13 | Did he really look like that all the time ? |
| 14 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 15 | ‘ What with my wedding as well in October , it is really turning into some exciting year , is n't it ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What with my wedding as well in October , it is really turning into some exciting year , is n't it ? ’ |
| 17 | One collector even suggested to Mr Laurentius that no one was really waiting for these new techniques and that it would be better for everyone if he stopped . |
| 18 | Well , I think he was good player — but playing in that Liverpool side was nt difficult , and he s not really played for any other side so its hard to tell exactly how good he is . |
| 19 | ‘ You ca n't stand the fact that I know what you 're really like behind that ice-cool façade . ’ |
| 20 | Belief in each other , however little was really known about that other , and belief in the cause , however nebulously described . |
| 21 | Many urban areas had not really benefited to any great extent . |
| 22 | The United goal never really looked in any great danger … this was about the only lapse … |
| 23 | The navy consisted of nearly 81,000 men , serving in 378 vessels , though only 285 of these were of any size , qualifying as first to sixth rates , and what really counted in any major action were the 121 ships of the line , manned by 70,000 sailors . |
| 24 | There 's this guy , see , he thinks he 's pretty street-smart , but sometimes these things happen , he 's not so sure , and he wonders , can he really tell about this one particular girl , who he really likes her , but you ca n't tell by looking , can you ? ’ |
| 25 | He 's really dealing with that whole idea of the image of the self and the reflection in the water being much bigger and more interesting to all of us that the reality of who Jeff Koons is , ’ Rifkin says . |
| 26 | Connecting with their deities , through consciousness raised by ritual , through dance or song , through drugs or sexual congress , they were really connecting with this primal force . |
| 27 | Well I certainly would n't have thought about it , and I do n't think any chemist would have believed it , and in fact what happened was it really came from this other esoteric sort of project that we were doing . |
| 28 | They 've had to go for the we did them a few sort of quotes on the survey side of this Arrow Park and er we 've got ta , you know , really stick to this tight budget because it 's the only way you can get them no matter what people are telling you erm about the recession being over , people still want things for nothing . |
| 29 | That 's where the politicians meet the people and the adrenalin really flows in those exhilarating , nervewracking , exhausting three to four weeks before polling day . |
| 30 | Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . |