Example sentences of "really do [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I really do have to be going now , ’ she said . |
| 32 | The quality of our lodges is so superb , they really do have to be seen to be appreciated . |
| 33 | Some winklebrain from the bank who managed to get himself sacked the following week ( and you really do have to be a winklebrain to get ejected from there ) stepped out one evening with Stu for a post- Arbeit beverage at Squires Wine Bar . |
| 34 | We really do belong in the Second Division but this should not and need not be so . |
| 35 | Regulators find it difficult to ensure that the regulated really do produce on the lowest possible cost curve . |
| 36 | You can plan grand lectures , but in the end you really do learn by doing them over and over again , adjusting this or changing that . |
| 37 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 38 | ‘ That is , our own friends and the people who really do come to church regularly . |
| 39 | I I really do worry about you ! |
| 40 | We really do look like shit . |
| 41 | You really do look like a woman who 's spent time making up with her lover now ! ’ |
| 42 | When they got there , Clelia said to Martin , " You really do get on her nerves , you know . |
| 43 | I really did feel like a Queen for a moment , well , even longer when I found it was not a flash in the pan , but that they were really going to stay with us . |
| 44 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 45 | ‘ So this is how you spend all the money I 've lent you , ’ I said , and do you know what — he really did blush at that . |
| 46 | The engine will also be offering lessons on the footplate to all those who really did want to be engine drivers when they grew up , with the help of an experienced fireman . |
| 47 | I still needed evidence in black and white that the inches really did disappear from areas previously impossible to reduce — namely the hips and thighs . |
| 48 | ‘ Pete really did go for her then . |
| 49 | He really did think of her as little more than a tramp . |
| 50 | But , let's notice that , first of all , the Lord really did speak to this woman ! |
| 51 | The intriguing point is this : if the Germans really did land in East Anglia in 1940 , and there was an elaborate cover-up , it is surely inconceivable that Ealing would have been allowed by the censors to portray such an accurate reconstruction only two years later . |
| 52 | For centuries , as we have just seen , commentators argued that grammatical gender really did relate to the immutable realities of sex difference . |
| 53 | It can be a bit daunting dealing with a single grain and this is one way of ensuring the patient does n't have to worry whether the poppy seed really did drop into the bottle and similarly the practitioner can be reasonably confident of eliminating this danger in assessing any lack of reaction . |
| 54 | Well , I really did slog at it and once back in school I said to him : ‘ Tell what you think of this ’ . |
| 55 | Well I had a hysterectomy when I was forty nine and to me life really did begin at fifty ! |
| 56 | So you can imagine that erm , er during the war of course , th they buses made because they made to the trolley buses made plenty of money because erm , labour was cheap and erm , you had the soldiers they were , lot of them , no other form of transport , petrol rationing and that , so the buses really did come into their own during the war . |
| 57 | Steam really did come to an end on BR when the state-owned narrow-gauge Vale of Rheidol was sold , not without tears , to the Brecon Mountain Railway . |
| 58 | Either he was so upset that he did n't look where he was going , or he really did jump on purpose . ’ |
| 59 | They seemed silly and childish and so much less wise than us who really did live in a drab and depressing world and yet found happiness in it . |
| 60 | if you were a fairly radical cadre , if you erm really did believe in land reform etcetera this would , this would give you the go ahead to promote land reform . |