Example sentences of "n't really have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At his age , and where he lives , he does n't really have much hope of getting anything more advanced , though he is certainly intelligent and able . |
| 2 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 3 | So I do n't really have much conversation with a lot of them . |
| 4 | It was always like this these days — two colleagues who respected each other but did n't really have much to say . |
| 5 | In this case , however , she did n't really have much choice , and the realisation rankled . |
| 6 | I did n't really have much idea of what was going on at all . |
| 7 | " I do n't really have much time at all , thanks all the same . " |
| 8 | You ca n't really have that and these plates on that shelf . |
| 9 | Should n't really have that o th , all that . |
| 10 | erm so species are , in a sense , real things out there , they 're not an artefact of taxonomists who 've tried to force some classification onto organisms which do n't really have that nature . |
| 11 | It had rudimentary listings of events , it had previews , but it did n't really have enough . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't really have any good times any more . |
| 13 | I do n't really have any ambitions to change in any drastic ways . |
| 14 | I was convinced that my feelings did n't matter and , anyway , I did n't really have any friends . |
| 15 | I do n't really have any friends . ’ |
| 16 | Well , I have lots of hobbies , collecting things — like diamonds , people — I do n't know , I do n't really have any specific hobbies . |
| 17 | The difference between this and the Marley one is that with Marley we did n't really have any poster work , it was mainly concentrating on black and white photography . |
| 18 | Mother Hilary , a legal secretary , and her golf playing husband Mike , who works at Stormont , encouraged her so that now , she admits , ‘ I do n't really have any hobbies . |
| 19 | She did n't really have any choice , for she had no other contacts in Paris . |
| 20 | Now the fact that you 've rinsed off with water anyway , you should n't really have any of the cleansing medium on the skin . |
| 21 | She did n't really have any idea why she was going there . |
| 22 | You do n't really have any inhibitions about stealing , do you , Maria ? |
| 23 | Leicester City Council says that with forty thousand light bulbs to install it does n't really have any alternative to starting so early . |
| 24 | Er it 's but I do n't really have any problems with with selling er I 'm not hard sell er I do n't believe in er stuffing things down people 's throat . |
| 25 | It 's typical , they just accepted it all , so it did n't really achieve a great deal , but Mike told me quite a lot of things that I do n't really have any idea , or I did n't know about , |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't really have any , ’ she faltered . |
| 27 | Hallo sir , you 're calling about your daughter , Jennifer , erm I 'm sorry , I do n't really have any more information to add to what we told you on the twentieth . |
| 28 | Ken Vasey did n't have to make a save in the first half , did n't really have to did n't give Charlton a chance , and even in the second half when Charlton came forward more and more , they did n't really have any chances erm one that Lee volleyed over the bar , one that was headed over the crossbar , and the chance that went in the net , so they still did n't have many chances , but erm United somehow erm construed to drop two points , and erm yes , dreadfully disappointing . |
| 29 | Well no , she did n't really have bad dreams — oh … but that was before … she remembered . |
| 30 | But if you just take those points er an and , and think them through in your own mind about how this system of government differs say from the British system of government and the position of local government in the British system , you can see that , well we do n't really have local government do we ? |