Example sentences of "[noun] really [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They get a good deal really do n't they ? |
| 2 | Today a President really does not have the kind of clout with the Congress that he had thirty years ago , even in matters that affect national security . ’ |
| 3 | Well , cos David really does n't know anything about the air braking or anything like that . |
| 4 | There were some aspects of her job that Margaret Stanhope really did not like , and spending every other Sunday in bed with Reg Butler was one of them . |
| 5 | Marriage misinterpreted his hesitation and said querulously : ‘ Dot really did n't tell me a thing , nothing . |
| 6 | Erm , was , or so his critics said , that er his theory just would not work and the kind of argument that they produced against him , and poor old Darwin really did n't have an answer to this , and i it seemed a very very severe problem at the time was look , supposing that er I 'm a mutant you might think . |
| 7 | Although Doody 's notion of incarnation in poetry really does not account for the hundreds of poems written by women to the standard abstractions such as sleep , pity , and wisdom , yet there is certainly a strain in the poetry of eighteenth century women which might take as its best emblem Esther Lewis perched on her stilts . |
| 8 | It was clearly a spot height — in fact there was a small stone to mark it , but it was almost hidden in rough grass and gorse , and Maggie really did n't want to know how far they had climbed . |
| 9 | She said , ‘ I suppose I could always go and live with Bertha , if Nell really does n't need me . ’ |
| 10 | Workers really did n't need Marx to figure out the consequences of this inequality in the distribution of power . |
| 11 | Everywhere that 's got a postal address has a town council at that post town really does n't it . |
| 12 | The explicit confirmation that the Commons really does not matter was the real constitutional crisis waiting to happen , vindication to all those Euro-sceptics who argue that Maastricht rides roughshod over parliamentary sovereignty . |
| 13 | you want a big room really do n't |
| 14 | The results of the first two years really did not warrant such astronomical sums and Dennis knew that the following year he would have to pay Prost a sum equal to his evident worth . |
| 15 | The only thing Joanne really does n't like is her pretty dresses . |
| 16 | After so many years of being on my own I really do n't want to settle down and commit myself to a relationship . |
| 17 | It spent er very little and the federal government 's er expenditures really did n't amount to , to very much at all . |
| 18 | Yeah but me and Catherine really do n't talk about you know . |
| 19 | And it 's very insulting to an editor to receive an article on a subject , when the previous week or the previous month there 's been a very similar article , because that says , ‘ This person really does n't know what my journal 's about , what my newspaper 's about ’ and so forth . |
| 20 | Her powerful and eloquent singing really does not need to be supplemented by low-register Sprechstimme ; one can see the point , but Puccini is near enough to raw melodrama without such mannerism . |
| 21 | So things really do n't feel so bad after a good laugh . ’ |
| 22 | But now we understand that these things really did n't amount to much . |
| 23 | Jack Butler really did n't like the idea that he had been nobbled and worse than that , nobbled by a girl . |
| 24 | Either Mrs Hnatiuk really did not know much about Hank or she was just being perverse . |
| 25 | I mean we would n't of known , I never saw that erm , you know diamond thing with , four , I mean even then I when we bought them I was thinking four sixty fives , that 'll be two sixty and erm three sixty , so you save a bit really do n't you ? |
| 26 | Give it away a bit really did n't he ? |
| 27 | pending discussions but the whole thing Mr chairman really has n't erm has n't been decided to you know er a few colleagues point er I mean there 's nothing we can actually start and you can put pencil to paper on at the present time . |
| 28 | Looks like a hand loom really does n't it ? |
| 29 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 30 | Well what what you could do is put in brackets somewhere a list of accents you can think of so that if people really do n't know what to do . |