Example sentences of "they do [adv] really [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 2 | Perhaps they did not really believe in them — or did they ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago people argued about definitions but they did not really disagree about a system of values which centred the individual 's worth in a family context and saw counselling as the social worker 's core skill . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And they did n't really decide on what the message was going to be , erm , they just decided to start checking lines , getting words out on what the charity was going to be , they split that up quite well . |
| 7 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 8 | They 're professional people I mean they do n't really explain to you what they 're doing . |
| 9 | ‘ They do n't really check on you very closely . |
| 10 | The electrons balance the forces of course , but they do n't really contribute to the mass . |
| 11 | They do n't really talk about what 's happened in the past , all they 're bothered about is what 's happening to them at present . |
| 12 | THEY DO N'T REALLY TALK TO YOU AS A PERSON |
| 13 | When you know that they are sort of negative and they do n't really talk to you as a person , you know that they 're not really bothered about what happens to you . |
| 14 | The cynical exploitation of the latest political discovery , the environment — because there are real problems out there in Banbury , Bangladesh and Basutoland which ca n't wait , and they do n't really care about our deliberating the issues and producing yet more paper , probably from their trees . |
| 15 | Maybe they 're songwriters — they do n't really care about really good guitar players . |
| 16 | I 'm sure that 's why so many people compromise and end up in relationships which they do n't really want to be in . |
| 17 | Undoubtedly , some of you will be , but there must be one or two people who are actually dreading Christmas er bearing in mind that they 've had to ask somebody whom they do n't really want in their house , or perhaps that person or people have asked themselves , and it 's very difficult to know how to refuse is n't it really ? |
| 18 | Well you see , hardly anybody ever sa they do n't really sit in this area , all they do is er , I mean , they only sit |
| 19 | But erm but they do n't , they do n't really complain about the complex as a whole . |
| 20 | They do n't really believe in nomes ! |
| 21 | I reckon they 're friends cos they do n't really look like each other and there ai n't no grown up with them , like they 're a family out with their mum and dad . |
| 22 | Ambergate , Brighouse , Yeadon … the question is , will Bivouac be the first famous band to come from Derby , even though they do n't really come from Derby ? |
| 23 | For example : You see like , the parents who come over from the West Indies , they try and teach their children this attitude " you 're English , you was born here , so you must talk the right and proper way , so you must n't talk like that " , but then after a time , as you get older , they do n't really worry about it too much . |
| 24 | Differences in behaviour between home and school are not uncommon in hyperkinetic children , but they do not really help in deciding whether the problem has dietary origins . |