Example sentences of "really [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | You 're not really given any background either . |
| 4 | Gunnell had to be satisfied with £23,000 but declared : ‘ The world championship was the only thing that really mattered this season . |
| 5 | because afterwards I , he had his arm round me when we were leaving and said oh well , I 've really enjoyed this evening , we 'll do it again wo n't we ? |
| 6 | None of the Oxford work really paralleled this European and American shift , though Marty St James 's and Anne Wilson 's Portrait of Shobana Jeyasingh ( 1990 ) shown in the Harris exhibition ( a relative of the works on show in early 1991 at the National portrait Gallery in London ) works through many related concerns . |
| 7 | ‘ I never really solved that problem , ’ Kureishi admits . |
| 8 | Like most others , he had never really trusted that Earl ; but this throwing in his lot with the English , while still Scots Chief Warden of the Marches , was a dire betrayal by any standards , and most menacing for Berwick , since as Warden he had overall authority for the town and port , if not the castle . |
| 9 | While the clergy successfully defended their claim to be taxed in convocation and not in parliament , this really made little difference to the king 's income or , indeed , to the vulnerability of the clergy before his demands . |
| 10 | After work , I used to come home and watch television and , at weekends , I 'd maybe ask to go to the pictures , But I had n't really made any friends so I was still in a very narrow circle . |
| 11 | ‘ Eleanor , my parents , quite a few of my friends — you never really made any effort to get along with the people who 'd been an important part of my life before you came on the scene . ’ |
| 12 | As a protest some people never really made any attempt to get on with their writing project but just sat there and chatted to each other . |
| 13 | But dreams I could n't possibly have had without his having really done those things . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I know that a lot of musicians have that kind of pressure put on them , but I 've never really gotten any bullshit from anybody about what to do . |
| 15 | ‘ And no one 's really seen that boy in Harriet Shakespeare 's house , ’ Jinny said eagerly . |
| 16 | I must admit , some of you probably were brought up on Meccano , and certainly not in the mo mo more sophisticated technology we 've got at the moment , but the point is , a lot of these have n't really seen this part of what I call the basic technology itself and er , it was interesting because we were trying to build up some kind of game for their summer fair and the game was quite obviously er , you know er propel a ping-pong into a er series of slots with er , bit like bingo to a certain extent , where you can actually er give prizes for the various holes you could actually penetrate and things like that . |
| 17 | For a moment she thought she had really seen this happening and that Simon had drowned . |
| 18 | We have really answered these questions in the course of our work and er I think any rite , any consideration of a rite of passage such as was , was er asked for , is in a sense detracting from the significance of holy baptism and I doubt if there 's any future in this . |
| 19 | He just has n't got a clue , apparently he said last night he never thought it would be so hard , he had a confession with Liz or something , never thought it would be so hard and he 's really struggled this year , really , really hard work , nothing like being a deputy which to me he 's an idiot if he did n't know that , he 's feeling guilty about the phone bill , but has n't got any money at all for anything |
| 20 | I decided this would be a good experimental site on which to try my new detector , and for the first hour of detecting felt that I had been right in my assumption that I had really cleaned this place out . |
| 21 | and maybe she 'll have someone to visit in London cos she has n't really got any friends in London . |
| 22 | Is he erm bring himself down a bit to Nick 's level , cos Nick and has n't really got any position ? |
| 23 | He had n't really got any aim in mind , except perhaps the possibility of finding a useful bit of wire or something . |
| 24 | ‘ They give them stuff to read which has really got some relevance to the children 's life . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's not really had much cause . ’ |
| 26 | So now , although her guests had really had enough tea and would rather have been somewhere else , everyone was showing signs of impatience for another cup . |
| 27 | you 've really had some playing . |
| 28 | Do n't you realize that neither you nor me have really had any consideration from your father in years . |
| 29 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 30 | Well as I say , I had , I do n't , I have n't really had any involvement really with talking to people about their experience of living in the flats until people knew that they were going to be moved out eventually . |