Example sentences of "really [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these people wanted to d if these people wanted to c and they really cared about conservation and education they 'd do what the care for the wild have done . |
| 2 | Well before the evening really got under way , he would have a couple of hundred roubles in his pocket , to be converted into a night of vodka-drinking and celebration . |
| 3 | The ancient-astronaut industry really got under way in 1969 , with the first English-language publication of a book called Chariots of the Gods ? , by Erich von Däniken . |
| 4 | And in August , the pilot really got under way when our new Evaluation Officer , , began her first visits to centres . |
| 5 | ‘ As strikers , we were always at opposite ends of the field so I never really came into contact with Frank on the park , ’ recalls Pearson . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , but it never really came into play , although it 's a nice idea and it looks good . |
| 7 | That term did n't last long , though , and ‘ Plate Tectonics ’ really came into being when scientists all over the world , such as Isacks , Oliver , Sykes , Le Pichon and Morgan ( to name but a few ) , began to apply the new way of thinking to specific parts of the globe . |
| 8 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 9 | The match really came to life when Smith put the visitors ahead five minutes before the scheduled break . |
| 10 | The science of physics really came to birth during the nineteenth century , though the process of convergence of separate physical sciences had perhaps begun when Galileo united celestial and terrestrial dynamics . |
| 11 | ‘ It was talked about a lot , but never really came to fruition . |
| 12 | This work , however , only really came to fruition in Engels 's famous book The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , a book which although written after Marx 's death was extensively based on his notes . |
| 13 | They say it really came from Croissant , meaning crescent , because there 's a bend in the valley and the river there . |
| 14 | What I really learnt about teaching was when I actually started the stuff . |
| 15 | He never really adjusted to peacetime routine , suffering much in his later years , as secretary to the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland , from wartime injuries . |
| 16 | The point is that manufacturing really began on greenfield sites without the benefit of central planning . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the main credit for resolving the dilemma of Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe really belonged to Commonwealth leaders such as Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Malcolm Fraser of Australia , and especially to Lord Carrington and the mandarins of the Foreign Office . |
| 18 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 19 | And I really felt on edge walking back |
| 20 | They sat down to a celebration champagne lunch with Dai Davies , the farm manager , and set about opening the heaps of telegrams and congratulatory letters ‘ so that we really felt on top of the world ’ . |
| 21 | Leeds had the majority of play , did some very neat football , but always looked vulnerable in defence and never really looked like scoring . |
| 22 | Wetherall and Newsome were impressive in the air , and never really looked in trouble . |
| 23 | WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town . |
| 24 | As Lewis tells us in the preface to the published version of this book , his initial reaction was to wish for anonymity , ‘ since if I were to say what I really thought about pain , I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them , . |
| 25 | The truth of this matter seems to be that the authors of the Convention never really took into account the mobile quality of people and documents . |
| 26 | I really took to golf , too . |
| 27 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
| 28 | Not all the crew was impressed with the wild beauty however , although Dave Scadding , my number one really fell in love with Scotland , so much so that he applied for a transfer to Kirkwall on our return to Southampton . |
| 29 | In other words , in Jesus , God really appeared on earth as a person . |
| 30 | She even claims to be the government 's science policy coordinator — a role we should n't attach too much weight too , according to Mrs Thatcher , who once told New Scientist off for inflating this part of her job beyond what she really had in mind . |