Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] really [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't really want to be a pretty little girl then . |
| 2 | The only thing is , I did n't really want to be a tailoress , I wanted to be a nurse , but had n't much choice , then . |
| 3 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 4 | I did n't really expect to . |
| 5 | ‘ There was this group unity we had to have that I felt lost in and I did n't really relate to . |
| 6 | He had a shifty air — as well as an obvious aversion to work of any kind — and I did n't really take to him . |
| 7 | But when I got home and found my answerphone knee-deep in angry messages I did n't really have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that you had something to do with it . ’ |
| 8 | Tracy was persuaded , but as time went on , decided she did n't really want to be with him , so she left him . |
| 9 | She had n't really expected to , she realised . |
| 10 | In her heart of hearts Celia knew that she had n't really come to terms with her condition at all , but she could n't say so point-blank to Alison . |
| 11 | It had to be done through the American Consulate at Marseilles , sixty miles there and back , she was away most of the day ; I was glad of that too , we did n't really want to be alone with each other just then . |
| 12 | We had only really talked to Mr Postman on the regular occasions — Dusshera , Diwali , Christmas , New Year — that he came looking for tips , but were flattered by the invitation and out of curiosity decided to take it up . |
| 13 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 14 | They went out from us but they did not really belong to us , for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us but their going showed that none of them belong to us . |
| 15 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 16 | William had loved his grandad , but he 'd never really listened to him . |
| 17 | Nizan was unsuccessful in his attempts to allay the suspicion that he did not really belong to the French communist party . |
| 18 | The Doctor could n't quite make out what it was that had moved , but going by the gelid fluidity of the apparent movement , he did n't really want to . |
| 19 | Henry could n't work out , from Donald 's description , which of these alternatives was best described by the Madonna Complex , indeed he did n't really listen to a word either of them said . |
| 20 | So it , it did n't really matter to me . |
| 21 | It did n't really occur to either of us that it would end , and there would be a baby . |
| 22 | It had never really taken to the concept of death . |
| 23 | It had never really occurred to me to put things in those terms but I can see what he meant and to an extent he was partly right . |
| 24 | He had n't really expected to actually see Mrs Constantine ; she was gaining a rather eccentric reputation . |