Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd not really given themselves the opportunity to consider a song from beginning to end — with them it was just get high and play . |
| 2 | They 'd never really taken off , and repeated raids and tougher licensing had killed them completely . |
| 3 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 4 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |
| 5 | Perhaps they did not really believe in them — or did they ? |
| 6 | Martyn Goff could not help noticing that most of Minton 's young men tended to play listening , attendant roles ; they seemed to be looking uneasily over their shoulders as if aware that they did not really belong . |
| 7 | They went out from us but they did not really belong to us , for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us but their going showed that none of them belong to us . |
| 8 | She often shrewdly suspected that they found it hard work too , and that for all their signatures of fondest love they did not really like her ; they wanted her , they thought that she would do , but they did not really like her . |
| 9 | She often shrewdly suspected that they found it hard work too , and that for all their signatures of fondest love they did not really like her ; they wanted her , they thought that she would do , but they did not really like her . |
| 10 | His wife , Elizabeth , has told Mollie that they did not really get the view that it was coming their way until the next week ; but , in fact , it was . |
| 11 | Twenty years ago people argued about definitions but they did not really disagree about a system of values which centred the individual 's worth in a family context and saw counselling as the social worker 's core skill . |
| 12 | ‘ It was felt they did n't really measure up . |
| 13 | His sister had told him they did n't really exist , and he recalled the bitter disappointment . |
| 14 | He even bullied the women who came into his shop , selling them things they did n't really want to buy and refusing to stock things that they did . |
| 15 | So they said , well they did n't really want another granny but they , they wanted to adopt a granddad . |
| 16 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 17 | And they did n't really want them back at that time . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean … they did n't really stand much of a chance , did they , sir ? ’ |
| 19 | Both their voices were low ; they did n't really mean to include him in the conversation , and it was noisy in the room ; people laughed and shouted , the music next door had been turned up . |
| 20 | But they did n't really bother . |
| 21 | And they did n't really decide on what the message was going to be , erm , they just decided to start checking lines , getting words out on what the charity was going to be , they split that up quite well . |
| 22 | And erm , I tried them on , well I , I bought , I mean I bought them and brought them home and a sort of cropped , cropped leggings they did n't really do anything for me . |
| 23 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 24 | They actually relocated people out of cities , they did n't really kill them off , just put them somewhere nobody else wants to be . |
| 25 | And they knew full well that they did n't really need the three thousand apprentices but those large firms trained no no note my word , for the country 's needs , not the company 's needs ! |
| 26 | ‘ My parents ’ hotel is very small ; they did n't really need me to help run it . |
| 27 | They did n't really need much persuading . |
| 28 | They did n't really need it , of course , since it was a lovely warm summer 's day , but the twins clearly thought it a great adventure , busily insisting on helping Ross by scampering about the bay in search of small pieces of wood to add to the bonfire . |
| 29 | She was sure they did n't really like her , it had n't occurred to her that she might be off-putting . |
| 30 | I mean in the they did n't really like that . |