Example sentences of "really [vb past] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a short while I started to see an osteopath , which really helped to relieve the pain , but again only temporarily . |
| 2 | But Hilary not only encouraged this hero-worship , he really seemed to make a friend of Pickerage . |
| 3 | I really came to have a word with Charles Julian . |
| 4 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 5 | Eddie Murphy 's success as the leading world box-office star of the mid-80's proved once again that the general public was not quite as small-minded as the film studios seemed to believe but it was Spike Lee 's 1986 low budget success ‘ She 's Got ta Have It ’ that really began to turn the tide . |
| 6 | Later that year Davies was signed by West Bromwich Albion , but after two seasons at The Hawthorns , he returned to the Palace and continued to play consistently well for us as we really began to make an impact on the Southern League . |
| 7 | People really began to expect the war to end in August , or at the latest in September . |
| 8 | The Industrial Revolution had , of course , begun some twenty years before Jane Austen 's birth , at a time when the Rule of Taste had established an unquestioned supremacy ; but it was in the twenty years following her death in 1817 that it really began to change the face of England . |
| 9 | We liked the stuff he was doing and he really started to develop an image for us as well . |
| 10 | Erm , yeah ( he lies ) , but I really meant to say every window in the house . |
| 11 | However , Goody 's claims for the ‘ consequences ’ of literacy are couched in such a way that they do require it : he imposes upon himself the obligation to establish that the Greeks really did achieve the distinction of ‘ myth ’ from ‘ history ’ if his claims for literacy are to be credible . |
| 12 | Uneventful — yet , as he recalled the day 's happenings , they stung his memory with tiny , pleasant sensations , tastes , smells : there was the taste of eggs and bacon which really did break a fast , the scent of the first cigarette , and the agreeable weight of the Sunday paper in his hands . |
| 13 | ‘ I really did want a femur ’ , he said . |
| 14 | I would like to acknowledge Norman 's excellence because the Garrick was sort of stuck in the past for a long time box set imitation stuff and Norman has sort of revitalized it made it extremely professional and it really did make a difference to the performances and I 'd like |
| 15 | Cotton took an appointment as golf director at Royal Waterloo Golf Club , telling his friends that he was testing the theory that absence really did make the heart grow fonder . |
| 16 | The computer generated imagery and the reproduction of the various different airport locations , really did create an atmosphere of being behind the controls of a 737 . |
| 17 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 18 | Is it true that you really did have a nightmare time in your early life , with all the operations on your foot ? |
| 19 | A pity she really did have a cold on the morning she woke up and used her inhaler , the morning after I 'd taken it out of her hand-bag and added my little cocktail . |
| 20 | Who the hell did he think he was , sitting there as if he really did own the place , stuffing his face with food , its aroma making her stomach cry out — but , worst of all , trying to destroy her new future ? |
| 21 | Eventually , I rang the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and said I 'd got this botfly and really did need a bit of surgery , and they said ‘ Come along today . ’ |
| 22 | Going home really did seem a possibility . |
| 23 | Whether as Gorbals kid street fighter , trustee of New Scientist , Fellow of the Royal Society or captain of industry , I really did like the man . |
| 24 | I really did get a bit beyond myself . |
| 25 | To be quite honest man , I 've never really , never really did see a problem . |
| 26 | Did n't Cloughie get done for doing something similar a few years ago when he chinned the Forest fan who 'd run on the pitch ( later kissed him but brought out one of the all-time commentators classics from Greavesie when he said ‘ It was the first time the shit really had hit the fan ’ ) . |
| 27 | I really had to borrow the fare here . ’ |
| 28 | She really had made an effort to accept Rune 's invitation for the three of them to attend the firm 's party on the eve of their campaign presentation , but at the last moment her nerve had failed her . |
| 29 | ‘ Maggie started going at me about whether I really had finished the affair yet . |
| 30 | Yes you really had to make the effort |