Example sentences of "[modal v] [pron] really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while , after a silence broken only by the whispering of the fire , she raised her head and said , ‘ May I really have some hens soon ? |
| 2 | Should I really have supported this venture rather than the raffle tickets ? |
| 3 | But should you really play Muggins up front ? ! |
| 4 | It is not a rhetorical question when I ask — should we really let our people starve so that we can pay our debts ’ |
| 5 | Why should he really want to stay ? |
| 6 | I thought I could , I thought I could I really thought I could but oh God I 'd be okay if I could |
| 7 | But what could I really have done about it , anyway ? |
| 8 | ‘ Could you really do that ? ’ |
| 9 | Even if you love gardening could you really cope with a total of 200 feet of garden ? |
| 10 | ‘ Once I 'd begun to make love to you , could you really have asked me to stop ? ’ |
| 11 | How could you really have witnessed that ? and when I say that finally I want to talk about terrier men because basically they 're the people who 've ruined your sport the terrier men are illegal , the terrier men are doing something that is definitely illegal in this country . |
| 12 | [ How far away could you really see bloody Arthur 's Seat ? |
| 13 | Could you really survive on twenty four pounds a week or whatever the benefits would be . |
| 14 | Could you really address Princess Diana as ‘ Your Royal Highness ’ after hearing her babble on for 20 minutes to a man who calls her Squidgy ? |
| 15 | Once you abandoned the theorist 's armchair and his gloomy study and actually got out there among living tribesmen , then and only then could you really understand what was going on . |
| 16 | Could she really disregard that side of his nature which was so repellent to her ? |
| 17 | Could she really countenance spending a night of long dark hours in this ruin , a ruin whose sole purpose was the gathering of ghosts ? |
| 18 | Was it paranoia or could she really feel someone closing in on her ? |
| 19 | If taken for a hybrid , could she really fool a Stealer brood , or their Patriarch , over a period of time ? |
| 20 | Only then could she really afford to relax . |
| 21 | He had changed his clothes , his hair , his moustache and his expression , but could she really believe that he had changed his most secret thoughts and beliefs ? |
| 22 | Could she really have been reading that ? he wondered , looking around for the novel stuffed behind a cushion . |
| 23 | Could she really take his cock up there . |
| 24 | Nor could one really compare a sacred and honourable estate like marriage to a relationship with a cat . |
| 25 | Could one really put one 's hand on one 's heart and swear that the Ponting case would not have happened if Harold Wilson had been Prime Minister ? |
| 26 | Given their straitened horizons , and their own abnormality , how could they really think in terms of something as being significantly abnormal ? |
| 27 | Freire wanted to bring people to a critical awareness of their real situation in the socio-economic context , only then could they really learn and understand . |
| 28 | How much grey sunlight could he really stand ? |
| 29 | Could he really change , he wondered ? |
| 30 | And since whatever happened he would have to take the London train , could he really expose her — a woman who had one child and so could surely have another — to the risk of her own fertility ? |