Example sentences of "this [verb] [not/n't] really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this has n't really got going yet . |
| 2 | I know I 'll wake up in the morning and think this did n't really happen , but I am thrilled to bits . ’ |
| 3 | But this did not really hit orthodox Christianity , for prayers are always subject to the thing asked for being God 's will ; and He moves in a mysterious way , so that the workings of Providence may not be apparent until long afterwards . |
| 4 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
| 5 | The ideas expressed may well be wide of the mark , or they may not be , but this does not really matter since the purpose of hypotheses is to stimulate more ideas , and the research to either confirm or refute them . |
| 6 | We can describe them in terms of electrical activity in the brain , but this does not really tell us much . |
| 7 | This does not really explain how the regulation will be conducted , as this is more a feature of the regulators than of the politicians , if there is any slack in the relationship between government and regulatory agents . |
| 8 | Yet this does not really speak to the conservatives ' point . |
| 9 | It is so weak as not really to provide a genuine sense of ‘ conclusive ’ , but this does n't really matter . |
| 10 | This does n't really mean all Muslims ; that 's clear from the languages they use . |
| 11 | War boars are evil minded creatures that will take every opportunity to maim , bite , and kick their Orc masters but this does n't really bother the Orcs who are on the whole sensible enough to keep out of the way . |
| 12 | Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work . |