Example sentences of "really [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And from Alan the new flats here , Norman helped by Dave and other members has been constructing substantial timber stroke hardboard flats although a bit heavier than the conventional canvas they will last for years and they really do provide superb sets as has been proved with all three plays presented this year . |
| 32 | I do go out , I swear to God I put on Zoey 's tight skirt , you know the straight tight ones , they really do n't suit me at all I really do look awful . |
| 33 | So your breath is fine , your teeth are fine , your gums are fine , your tongue 's fine , but your tonsils look very unhealthy , they really do look nasty . |
| 34 | ‘ You really do look lovely , you know . |
| 35 | But there is something of a tension in Mill 's view , because he thinks that erm it 's very important that if there is plural voting then the people who only have one vote should be prepared to accept the situation , so that the reasons why these people are given extra votes should be reasoned that the public , the uneducated accept past critics have pointed out if that 's going to be the case , why is it necessary to give these people extra votes , give the educated actual votes , because if the uneducated accept that the decisions of the educated are worth more than their own decisions , the opinions of the educated are worth more than the opinions of the uneducated , if they really do accept that , what 's to stop them just following the decisions of the educated in their own vote ? |
| 36 | ‘ I really do find that hard to believe . ’ |
| 37 | I really do believe sexual possessiveness is something we should struggle against , no matter how difficult we find it . |
| 38 | He really did love this land . |
| 39 | She was killing two birds with one stone , she thought cheerfully : she really did feel sorry for Veronica , and keeping in touch was the only way she 'd find out more about the woman 's relationship with her husband . |
| 40 | ‘ I am a little surprised , Dr Neil , ’ said McAllister prim again , but managing to sneak another biscuit — she really did feel hungry and breakfast would not be served until Matey came down at about seven-thirty — ‘ that you have seen fit to buy it . ’ |
| 41 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 42 | ‘ But amazingly the process of setting up the co-op really did involve some of the men , and even the older boys . |
| 43 | Yeah , they had them come and fit their kitchen and they really did pay thousands of pounds for it , and erm , there was a chip erm , one of the units on the top and they , they just fitted it like it , and my , their dad called them back and said , look you know , I 'm paying thousands of pounds for this . |
| 44 | Perhaps I mean it 's , we do n't know in nineteen , October nineteen forty seven whether the Communist Party actually really did think that absolute egalitarianism might be able to work . |
| 45 | The sharpest clash occurred in the village of Bezdna in the eastern province of Kazan " , where a certain Anton Petrov began claiming that the statutes really did grant wholesale freedom . |
| 46 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 47 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 48 | ‘ After our night together , when Peter turned up next day , you were so savage , as if you really did believe all those terrible things you were saying about me — I do n't understand why you changed so suddenly — ’ |
| 49 | The girl really did seem perfect , and she also has some very good references , ’ Laura assured him . |
| 50 | Belinda watched her , smiling at first because Faye really did seem pleased about the present , then with increasing anxiety . |
| 51 | ‘ You really did seem horrible . |
| 52 | The trouble with All Fools ' Day is that every newspaper story suddenly looks suspect , but we assure subscribers that IBM Corp really is paying Louis Gerstner all that money it ca n't afford , that the sports shop that sells guns in Kingston really did close early and the UK government is considering a Congestion Charge , but we confess that we have no evidence that the next computer industry consortium will be a catch-all called Computer Industry . |
| 53 | For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective . |
| 54 | Harriet really did look far from well . |
| 55 | Poor kid , thought Mrs. Mounce , she really did look whacked . |
| 56 | Even a salad meal was a work of art for Leo , but he really did produce some marvellous meals from that old galley stove . |
| 57 | The ‘ false dawn of courtesy ’ was over and the pupils really did accept each other . |
| 58 | There was no attempt to glamorise her visually but by words and performance she really did become that desirable lady , one who would indeed swim naked with a Greek boatman . |
| 59 | Fancy Patterns : This really does cover many stitch types and is intended for those patterns that are most often used for single colour work , where the design relies on texture rather than contrasting colours to form the pattern . |
| 60 | One year 's seeding really does mean seven years ' weeding , when we consider the succession of seasons required for astronomical numbers of poppy seeds to decay to zero . |