Example sentences of "not really [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not really enjoying what they are eating ; they are not even noticing what they are eating ; they are certainly not satisfying feelings of hunger . |
| 2 | I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing . |
| 3 | It 's a bald statistic which can not really tell what life is like for those bound up in its flat figures . |
| 4 | So as Harry now leaves home for good on his mother 's birthday , he can not really explain what is happening to him . |
| 5 | It does not really matter what the answer is . |
| 6 | It was suggested that the extension of the period to three years from one required the attribution of a different meaning because the Theophile construction meant that it did not really matter what the period was ; as long as there was a debt , a bankruptcy petition could be presented . |
| 7 | But that but that 's my point really , we it 's not really defined what what is meant in this criteria by criteria |
| 8 | You ca n't but peek at them just to be titillated , not really believing what they are saying , since they are concocted by charlatans . |
| 9 | Unless , however , such a possibility is considered , the onlooker is not really appreciating what the ritual means to the religious person . |
| 10 | Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish . |
| 11 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
| 12 | It was at this point , while we were stumbling about , not really knowing what to say with so many other people present , that Eric suggested we should borrow a driver and jeep from the ASC — this boy was the biggest borrower of jeeps I had ever met — and set off for Fontanellato , where we could all be reunited : my parents , the Merlis , the Superiora and the suore at the hospital , and as many of the other people who had helped him as possible , including Dr Sambataro , of whom there had been no news since he joined the partisans . |
| 13 | In the beginning an arm-band was all we had to identify us with an assortment of weapons , not enough ammunition , and not really knowing what our role was . |
| 14 | She stared at him again , not moving , not really knowing what to do . |
| 15 | I was still in pain and still in shock and not really knowing what was going on . |
| 16 | It is not really clear what is the role of the National Bank of Yugoslavia . |
| 17 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 18 | He was reported to have said , ‘ I did not really know what an archdeacon does . ’ |
| 19 | The new mother is often terrified of making a mistake but she does not really know what is the best thing to do . |
| 20 | We are very prone to pontificate about what teachers should think about but we do not really know what they do think about : we formulate issues on their behalf . |
| 21 | Only then did it emerge that the settlers did not really know what they intended to do . |
| 22 | And yet , he did not really know what Callanish was . |
| 23 | I did not really know what I wanted to do with my life most of the time . |
| 24 | ‘ Only , ’ she said aloud , ‘ only , we do not really know what we are looking for . ’ |
| 25 | I did not really know what to expect away from the National Health Service and my mum , and so , armed with a small library of books and the good wishes of a Jamaican midwife at Homerton hospital , I just hoped for the best . |
| 26 | She did not really know what she was suggesting . |
| 27 | This is possible as it is obvious in Mark 's Gospel especially that the disciples did not really understand what the Messiahship of Jesus meant . |
| 28 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 29 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 30 | The majority , however , did not really understand what we were talking about and were unable to gain anything useful from us . |