Example sentences of "she [verb] [not/n't] really [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tries real hard , but she do n't really sing — she sort of shouts . |
| 2 | She do n't really like it , but she does it anyway . |
| 3 | She did not really expect to see them again . |
| 4 | She did not know where he was now and she did not really care , but he had probably been the most influential person in her life : her handsome prince and Maggie 's father . |
| 5 | She did not really care whether people listened or not ; she was interested herself in what she was saying , and she was quite happy to potter about from bench to bench watching people writing their diaries when they should have been writing up their experiments . |
| 6 | He talked , it was true , with a little too much self-confidence , and she could tell that his views were not entirely original , but she did not really care , because they were interesting , and it was something to be interested . |
| 7 | Lisa always knew she did not really want her baby adapted , and before she was even born had decided against it . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 9 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 10 | That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title . |
| 11 | ‘ She did not really give any reason why . |
| 12 | Constance asked , clinging briefly to a hope she did not really believe in . |
| 13 | She did not really believe anything untoward was going to happen this afternoon . |
| 14 | She did not really like The Soldier 's Tale ( ‘ I was all into swans and tutus ’ , she explained ) but was impressed by the duet for the soldier and the Scarlet Woman . |
| 15 | She did not really need to ask herself the question . |
| 16 | She did not really know what she was suggesting . |
| 17 | She will look elegant in black , and she 'll cry delicately so as not to mar the whiteness of her skin , and dab her nose with a lace-edged handkerchief , and wear Mother 's jet brooch , and all the customers will sigh and say how sad it is , and young men will want to comfort and console her , and they will , oh yes , because she did n't really love him . |
| 18 | " She did n't really love him , " Sarah shouted aloud in the empty house , and blushed as if there were a part of Enid lurking somewhere that could overhear her . |
| 19 | I suppose it was in a way because I knew she did n't really love me . |
| 20 | Anne realized that she did n't really want to leave she 'd just wanted a happier home . |
| 21 | She did n't really want him , of course but she simply had to prove to herself that he would prefer her to Sally , given the choice . |
| 22 | Tracy was persuaded , but as time went on , decided she did n't really want to be with him , so she left him . |
| 23 | She was very , she did n't really want to get rid of the baby , not really , I think I think perhaps somebody had put the idea into her head you 've got enough children you should n't have any more . |
| 24 | But I think she was like me she did n't really want to get rid of her baby . |
| 25 | If she waited much longer , she would be late at the shop , and as there was a good chance Lisa would be alone that was something she did n't really want to risk . |
| 26 | It was so wonderful that she did n't really want to get out of the car . |
| 27 | He would start to pressurise her again and she did n't really want to go to the Dordogne at all . |
| 28 | She did n't really want him to recreate the past like that . |
| 29 | ‘ Personally I think it 's overrated , ’ Jill laughed as they moved along the table , Lindsey helping herself to food she did n't really want . |
| 30 | Lindsey felt the faint colour tinge her cheeks as she helped herself to coffee she did n't really want . |