Example sentences of "really [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Hilary not only encouraged this hero-worship , he really seemed to make a friend of Pickerage . |
| 2 | I really came to have a word with Charles Julian . |
| 3 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 4 | Uneventful — yet , as he recalled the day 's happenings , they stung his memory with tiny , pleasant sensations , tastes , smells : there was the taste of eggs and bacon which really did break a fast , the scent of the first cigarette , and the agreeable weight of the Sunday paper in his hands . |
| 5 | ‘ I really did want a femur ’ , he said . |
| 6 | I would like to acknowledge Norman 's excellence because the Garrick was sort of stuck in the past for a long time box set imitation stuff and Norman has sort of revitalized it made it extremely professional and it really did make a difference to the performances and I 'd like |
| 7 | The malai army doctors really did hold a little surgery for our children . |
| 8 | Ferngrove Park , with its woods and meadows and deep thickets full of secret nooks and crannies , was a place where the Brownies really did have a grand time . |
| 9 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 10 | Is it true that you really did have a nightmare time in your early life , with all the operations on your foot ? |
| 11 | In the end , I really did have a good time at College . |
| 12 | they really did have a proper scheme and you were paid a sort of reasonable wage |
| 13 | She really did have a long way to go , and she had not yet learned to recognise the precise lineaments , the demeanour and the shape of the shadow of Stan . |
| 14 | A pity she really did have a cold on the morning she woke up and used her inhaler , the morning after I 'd taken it out of her hand-bag and added my little cocktail . |
| 15 | I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet . |
| 16 | Eventually , I rang the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and said I 'd got this botfly and really did need a bit of surgery , and they said ‘ Come along today . ’ |
| 17 | Going home really did seem a possibility . |
| 18 | ‘ I really did get a buzz from it and that was bad . |
| 19 | I really did get a bit beyond myself . |
| 20 | To be quite honest man , I 've never really , never really did see a problem . |
| 21 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 22 | All the talk after the game is about Gascoigne , but he really had had a marvellous match had n't he ? |
| 23 | ‘ At first he did n't believe us but when he realised we really had found a baby and came back with us to have a look . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I really wanted to create a reference book for my twin daughters , Alicia and Alexandra , of all the recipes I loved as a child , and still like cooking , ’ explains Sheila . |
| 25 | He really wanted to do a play on maybe Broadway at the time — something different . ’ |
| 26 | If they really wanted to find a motive for the murder , they should grill Mrs Sweet . |
| 27 | I doubt if my mother really wanted to have a child in the heat of India and was surely delighted that she was merely the victim of indigestion . |
| 28 | Sorry to sound a little perverse on that issue , but I , we really wanted to have a clear indication of what you felt as District Planning Officers , er an and indeed we 'll hear what the County feel and in fact have pursued through this alteration , but can I again , just for clarification , and in fact it 's a sort of final head count , er and again I raise this in the context of P P G three paragraph thirty three , and that is the degree of acceptability , or otherwise , by the local planning authorities , erm and I only need a nod from you , or otherwise , for the record . |
| 29 | First impressions lasting longest and all that , when 4AD 's Boston Seethe Party first toured the UK in its full label package glory , while the Pixies were the kind of nutters you 'd gladly go joyriding with , The Muses … well , the Muses were the kind of band you respected from afar and near really wanted to share a six-pack with underneath the baseball park grandstand . |