Example sentences of "not really [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 2 | Lisa always knew she did not really want her baby adapted , and before she was even born had decided against it . |
| 3 | This stage is intended mainly to ease the initial awkwardness , the interviewer does not really want your detailed impressions of the weather or the route you took to get to the interview . |
| 4 | One can not really hold it against Newton , because he lived two hundred and fifty years before the observational discovery of the expansion of the universe . |
| 5 | He does not really expect her to love him , and when she does it has to be total . |
| 6 | I did not really expect one . |
| 7 | As a result , their analysis does not really advance our understanding of the problem . |
| 8 | Ngurumo 's editor commented that the new Bill did not really alter anything . |
| 9 | It 's a bald statistic which can not really tell what life is like for those bound up in its flat figures . |
| 10 | Some managements set great store by cuttings but a tally of the column inches or volume of press cuttings does not really tell you all that much . |
| 11 | We can describe them in terms of electrical activity in the brain , but this does not really tell us much . |
| 12 | Floy was suspicious and Caspar did not really blame him for that . |
| 13 | He is put down by Gloucester for being illegitimate and ignored so one can not really blame him for seeking revenge against the wrong done to him and for his bitter character . |
| 14 | In his heart , even as the first shaft sliced into the flesh of his left arm , he did not really blame them . |
| 15 | It all represents King a little too effectively marketed to tingle the skin , but underneath it all there is the same fluidity , the same lightning double-time runs , the same sense of shape , declaring that repackaging can not really cramp his style . |
| 16 | So as Harry now leaves home for good on his mother 's birthday , he can not really explain what is happening to him . |
| 17 | ‘ Getting the sack did not really affect my confidence . |
| 18 | We did not really think they could possibly get a boat in . ’ |
| 19 | It was a very dangerous plan , and I did not really think it would work — but we had to try ! |
| 20 | It was far out of the reach of grown-ups as well as children , except that Jasper did not really think anything was out of his reach . |
| 21 | John Coffin was in his office crouched in the imitation Bauhaus chair which did not really accommodate his bulk and certainly did not offer the comfort it promised . |
| 22 | It does not really matter what the answer is . |
| 23 | It was suggested that the extension of the period to three years from one required the attribution of a different meaning because the Theophile construction meant that it did not really matter what the period was ; as long as there was a debt , a bankruptcy petition could be presented . |
| 24 | It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough . |
| 25 | I was invited to write this article before the election , around the proposition that the policy differences between the parties were so narrow that it did not really matter who won — a political worldweariness with which I sharply disagreed . |
| 26 | Interactionism raises the issue of the relation between power and crime , but does not really answer it . |
| 27 | But the Resident even of a relatively unimportant station like Krishnapur can not really allow himself to file things , even surreptitiously . |
| 28 | Is Dr Campbell saying that Christ did not really take our sin upon himself but acted as if he did ? |
| 29 | ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’ |
| 30 | Many of these depend on rather sophisticated biochemical arguments which do not really concern me here ; just two must suffice . |