Example sentences of "really [verb] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't really think at that time I would have had enough experience to justify going on the staff .
2 But perhaps Evan still thinks too much , or perhaps he does n't think enough or , then again , perhaps he does n't really think at all
3 I did n't really think at all , not about where I was going , nor about what I would do when I got there .
4 No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all .
5 We are really struggling at this point in time , thinking , ‘ What are we doing , what are we about ? ’
6 C — Closed : The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator .
7 C — Closed The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator .
8 C — Closed — The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator .
9 But perhaps what mattered at eighty was habit , the body no longer interested in sex , the mind no longer interested in speculation , the smaller things in life mattering more than the large and , in the end , the slow realization that nothing really mattered at all .
10 ‘ You mean , you do n't really know at all ? ’
11 And that 's something we must do before the next meeting so that I can answer the questions , cos we do n't really know at this moment .
12 It is fighters which save them therefore the message is that they 're not really rescued at all because the world is in the same situation as the island .
13 I 've never really looked at that side of it , you know , so I do n't really know .
14 From hour to hour one 's life slipped away from one into the haze , before one had really looked at any of it properly .
15 He turned away , and when he had got a safe distance , he began to whistle — a moist whistle that said he was n't really disturbed at all about Arty 's strange behaviour .
16 As I argued in Chapter 5 , I am doubtful both whether such a condition really occurs at all , and whether , if it were to exist , drugs are ever likely to be developed which can help it .
17 I 'm not really living at all .
18 Susanna 's one does n't really work at all , but my one 's just like lukewarm .
19 you do n't really look at that at along
20 It was so loud and so deep it was n't really sound at all , just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it .
21 Are the signals clear ? is my attention really needed at this moment , or can it wait ?
22 What really happened at that battle ?
23 The problems really begin at this point .
24 Er the wages were n't really moving at all in these shor er times .
25 She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars .
26 Probably Jordan had n't really spoken at all , he was a kind of doppelganger telling Coffin not only what he ought to do , but what he also knew .
27 Maybe what I thought I saw happen to them both did n't really happen at all . ’
28 Has the revolution of 1989 been lost already , or did it never really happen at all ?
29 ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point .
30 It has been a matter of controversy whether the non-associative kinds of learning are really learning at all , and if so , whether they do not really take place by the same general mechanisms as associative learning .
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