Example sentences of "but [vb mod] [pron] really " in BNC.
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| 1 | But should you really play Muggins up front ? ! |
| 2 | And there was no reason to think the same would n't happen to her now … but must she really be overcome like that , so helplessly ? |
| 3 | But could it really happen ? |
| 4 | But could it really happen ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | But would we really miss it if it closed ? |
| 7 | But would it really make him more marketable ? |
| 8 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 9 | Oh , they would make a show of looking — taking my belongings was , after all , theft — but would I really prosecute my … lover ? |
| 10 | ‘ It 's true that I had the opportunity to be alone in the office , and we both know that I was angry and said a lot of things in the heat of the moment … but would I really be this vindictive ? ’ |
| 11 | But would you really ? |
| 12 | ‘ But would you really like to look flamboyant ? |
| 13 | … but will you really load this game up twice ? |
| 14 | This helps agencies , but will it really aid the politicians ' cause ? |
| 15 | But will it really be the icon modern Glasgow badly needs ? |
| 16 | But can we really dismiss Deutsch 's proscriptive view of our biological masochism , strange as it is ? |
| 17 | In 1974 , Fidel Castro said , in his closing speech to the Second Congress of the FMC , ‘ We live in a socialist country , we made our revolution sixteen years ago , but can we really say that Cuban women have in practice gained equal rights with men and that they are fully integrated into Cuban society ? ’ |
| 18 | But can we really afford to take such risks with our limited space and natural resources in Britain ? |
| 19 | But can there really be such a unified theory ? |
| 20 | But can I really maintain that the affliction is ‘ visible , painful , incurable , distasteful to others ’ … ? |
| 21 | But can I really improve my relationship with the earth by going shopping ? |
| 22 | But can you really get a close , smooth shave without the risk of painful nicks or razor burn ? |
| 23 | But can she really believe it is possible to go back to Cleveland over whose dead bodies she will return ? |