Example sentences of "had n't really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , though Isabel had n't really pictured a face , she had known that he would be gently bred , slender , a little taller than herself , perhaps , and handsomely clad in the raiment suited to his station . |
| 2 | Uncle Walter had n't really wanted to part with it . |
| 3 | But I had n't really wanted to involve you . ’ |
| 4 | It was as if he had n't really wanted freedom , only to assert his right to be free if he chose , which is quite a different thing and has something both sad and comical about it . |
| 5 | The difference was , she had n't really cared . |
| 6 | And I mean he took a lot of rehousing cos he come from a a a family that had n't really cared for him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was hop I had n't , I had n't really made up my mind that 's plenty biscuits Paula , yeah it 's plent do n't get , biscuit mania , Easter eggs , God |
| 9 | He had n't really kicked her in the face ; you 've got to draw the line somewhere , although I 've never been exactly sure where . |
| 10 | Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come . |
| 11 | A whirlwind affair set against the romantic backdrop of the Seville Expo in southern Spain that by the law of averages had n't really stood a chance from the off . |
| 12 | And though the Bishop and Treadwell had asked her to their meeting , they had n't really invited her to say what she knew . |
| 13 | She had n't really imagined she 'd have to talk at all , she realised — had hoped and assumed he 'd simply sweep her into his arms . |
| 14 | A strange fierce joy had filled him after that , and he had n't really heard anything Ashton or Smith had said to him . |
| 15 | He might have had the last word , but he had n't really forgiven her for her temerity in trying to put him down . |
| 16 | He had n't really believed him but he 'd dug all the same and his Dad had been angry . |
| 17 | She had n't really believed him , but so much of her new life had still to make sense to her that she had not challenged his statement . |
| 18 | She had n't really believed it herself , not all of it anyway ; so when her mother started telling her that what Davy Treffry had said was more or less true , she wanted to put her hands over her ears and not listen ; she did n't want to know about the argument there had been between her father and her Uncle Harry ; she did n't want to hear about how they picked their wives by some silly fishing competition . |
| 19 | If that was true , it occurred to her that he had n't really believed what she had told him tonight , but whether he did nor not , it did n't alter the central fact that they were never going to be lovers . |
| 20 | It had n't really involved her personally at all . |
| 21 | And Pete was relieved , because he had n't really felt like going anywhere , either . |
| 22 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 23 | They themselves had been exploited for the purposes of exploitation and although they made a stab at the psychedelic scene , it had n't really come off . |
| 24 | The Fat Controller had n't really killed the woman , had he ? |
| 25 | But the rest of me ignored those details and clutched hungrily at the reassurance that she had n't really played a willing part in my humiliation . |
| 26 | I had n't really grasped what they were talking about , but my two successes in Madrid had whetted my appetite . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , I had n't really kept up with technology and Windows , as far as I was concerned , was something behind the curtains . |
| 28 | Plenty of lines on his face , which she had n't really noticed before , but which were particularly noticeable now . |
| 29 | I had n't really noticed , ’ Merrill answered indifferently . |
| 30 | It still had n't really filtered through to him until he was actually on the ground working , and he just really could n't cope with that . |