Example sentences of "really [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 2 | Could she really disregard that side of his nature which was so repellent to her ? |
| 3 | He 's really enjoying that apple , I says er , and it 's a waste of time er , eating anything ! |
| 4 | Oh do you really think any footballer 's worth all that ? |
| 5 | ‘ You did n't really think some sort of Grandson Richard , 39 , was going to swoop down out of the sky and carry us off to Florida , did you ? |
| 6 | But will the increased availability of energy in the village really mean more energy for the very poor ? |
| 7 | The attendant under his arm said , " That was n't exactly what I meant ; just adding a " now " on to the start does n't really make much difference . |
| 8 | But this is the way you could really make some money . |
| 9 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 10 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 11 | But even if we do n't , it wo n't really make any difference to the argument . |
| 12 | The fact that he 's only risking his career — and mine , and the government 's — does n't really make any difference . |
| 13 | Of course this is not strictly true , but it makes the explanation simpler , and after all it does n't really make any difference to the cost whether you pay for your bulb or tyre when it fails or at the next service . |
| 14 | That does n't really make any difference . |
| 15 | Let there be no way out of it ; let me really make this promise . |
| 16 | We could really make this place swing if only they gave us the data to work on , could n't we ? ’ |
| 17 | Suppose you are one of those people who really hates any form of organised exercise , what can you do ? |
| 18 | And whether Oxfam and others really make any difference . |
| 19 | A little later she indicates that I am partially returned to favour when I plan to write to The Times condemning the industrial action that was taken by the consultants : ‘ If he really produces this letter to The Times I shall begin to have some faith in him . ’ |
| 20 | It really made all difference . ’ |
| 21 | One very good one is on an ongoing story , ‘ At this stage , I have n't really gathered enough information to make a positive comment . ’ |
| 22 | See he does n't really want much brown on him he just needs a coat . |
| 23 | The two colours do n't go too badly together but er I 'm not so sure that I would really want that hanging on the wall , I , it does n't really appeal to me very much . |
| 24 | I did n't really want that man anyhow . ’ |
| 25 | So they said , well they did n't really want another granny but they , they wanted to adopt a granddad . |
| 26 | But I had never really formed any ambition to become a Member of Parliament , I just talked about things which I love to talk about till all of a sudden one of the guests said : ‘ You want to be a Member of Parliament do n't you ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 27 | You 're not really given any background either . |
| 28 | Gunnell had to be satisfied with £23,000 but declared : ‘ The world championship was the only thing that really mattered this season . |
| 29 | We did n't really know each other . |
| 30 | It helped , but left me anxious as to whether we could still really know each other after so long apart . |