Example sentences of "really [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 2 | They 've had high points before , will they ever really make that elusive breakthrough to power ? |
| 3 | ‘ Are you rejecting me , or did I really make such little impression on you ? ’ |
| 4 | see , so I ca n't really cash any more , you know ? |
| 5 | Erm , I know your parents do n't really eat much sweet stuff , but do you have , generally have any sweet stuff in the house , really or is it |
| 6 | Do we really want all that lot ( Campbell-Kelly 1993 : 266 ) ? |
| 7 | Do we really want all these cars and all these journeys , polluting the air we breathe , creating endless noise and accidents , as well as eating up energy ? |
| 8 | " I do n't really want any fab ideas , " Sara had protested weakly . |
| 9 | Did I really want this young man — oh , not now , this minute , pressed on top of me — but tomorrow , and the days after , breathing down my neck ? |
| 10 | Had her mind gone , or had she really heard that tormented note in his voice ? |
| 11 | Nothing really mattered any more . |
| 12 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 13 | ‘ And I do n't really know any other places round here . |
| 14 | But do we really know any more about the animal kingdom now than Pliny thought he knew then ? |
| 15 | And I mean you do n't really need all that space . |
| 16 | Did I really need all this ? |
| 17 | I would probably use such a road , but I question the road policy we have in this country — do we really need all these roads ? |
| 18 | We do n't really need any more . ’ |
| 19 | Do we really need any more telly ? |
| 20 | Anything really resembling such unalloyed antifeminism is , however , rare in the French fabliaux . |
| 21 | Despite having a fair share of the play throughout , Braintree never really made any real impression and what chances there were came for the visitors . |
| 22 | Nobody had really made any significant progress in discovering how they worked , these engines Capella handed out so liberally . |
| 23 | Why not , Owen had thought , get him to put his money down later , when it could really do some good . |
| 24 | It 's a trick you fall back on if you ca n't really do any original thinking — you devise a new research procedure to ‘ confirm ’ an already established theory . |
| 25 | It really must make the school children feel that they 've really done some important research . |
| 26 | The word ‘ acceptance ’ most emphatically does not mean that someone experiencing loss will get to the stage of saying , ‘ Ah , it 's all over , it does n't really matter any more . ’ |
| 27 | Last night in the ‘ Digital pubs ’ it did n't really matter any more whether Heseltine had offered a major defence contract inducement to the company . |
| 28 | Well , you know I , just does n't really matter any more , the point is surviving . |
| 29 | Koch , who puts much store by his team 's massive technology programme , admits that ‘ Dennis really handles these flukey San Diego conditions well ’ . |
| 30 | My Lords , is my Noble Friend aware that many parents and teachers who have been deeply dissatisfied and disillusioned by local education authority schools in fact just set up their own new schools which are providing excellent education and really meeting those parental wishes , often with very strong er spiritual and moral values . |