Example sentences of "not really [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is sweet and touching , as you can imagine , but not really much practical help . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not really that useful to me right now . |
| 3 | Except Jeremy and Caroline , who are not really that interested |
| 4 | They are not really that old , but taste like it . |
| 5 | He felt that there were not really any nasty tackles . |
| 6 | ‘ All the same though , Pat , what I 'm doing with you is not really any different to what Lizzy did with the drugs . |
| 7 | ‘ Now they 're older , it 's not really any easier , there 's just different types of problems as they need to be here , there and everywhere after school . ’ |
| 8 | " There were n't really many single men around , and he 'd have had to be a pretty outstanding young man to take her in hand . " |
| 9 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 10 | He 's going to me erm , yeah , well , actually he was n't really that drunk , was he , on Saturday , |
| 11 | So I really was confident I was going to pass , and he said , ‘ I 'll give you a pound if you pass , ’ which is n't really that good a way of teaching . |
| 12 | Within days of the election result and devastating discrediting of opinion polls , Peter Kellner was using opinion polls to explain why things were n't really that bad for the Labour Party . |
| 13 | It was n't really that different from the approved school . |
| 14 | And the old thing was n't really that old … |
| 15 | My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill |
| 16 | There were n't really any proper ones for men , so he contented himself with Vogue , Marie Claire and Harpers . |
| 17 | There was n't really enough light to allow a thorough examination of the shadows in question , but Roman duly bent his head to inspect the pale oval of Caroline 's face in the soft lights from the trees . |