Example sentences of "really [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , for a while we really tried to be serious , ’ admits Puttnam . |
| 3 | ‘ Yeah , for a while we really tried to be serious , ’ admits Puttnam . |
| 4 | ‘ They are growing up missing half their heritage , and I really began to be concerned when they said fish and chips were their favourite food . |
| 5 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 6 | It really needed to be said . |
| 7 | To be honest , at the time I really needed to be dropped but there was no-one else at the club ready to take over . |
| 8 | With an uncertain outlook for nineteen ninety three from our point of view it 's absolutely crucial to get costs in line we had obviously done cost-cutting during the previous two years , but we really needed to be sure that if revenues were not going to increase , we should n't wait for a recovery to bail us out . |
| 9 | queried whether we really needed to be in it and I told him that sales wanted it and the reasons why we wanted to be in erm even the fact that it was going to k erm give us more accounting work erm whatsisname what bank is it ? |
| 10 | What would you rather like to be doing ? , would you , if you 're bored here , what would you really liked to be ? |
| 11 | The Vietnam War really appeared to be near its end , and the economy , shaken by the rise in world oil prices and the inflation produced by the war , seemed to be on the mend . |
| 12 | One of his associates was the noted bibliophile Richard de Bury , later Bishop of Durham , and it was he who informed the Pope , in response to a message conveyed verbally , that requests which the king himself really wished to be carried out would bear the words Pater Sancte in his own hand . |
| 13 | This was very disturbing emotionally for George , but it really had to be done . |
| 14 | so that they really had to be brought out . |
| 15 | He often said that he never really wanted to be a dancer , and his only purpose was to acquire the knowledge of dancing necessary to become a choreographer . |
| 16 | I really wanted to be close to the sea again , which I had not seen or even smelt for so long . |
| 17 | That was how he liked life — chatting with people at work , going home to see mother ( and , of necessity , father , but he tried to avoid that when possible now ) and confining social contact to those he really wanted to be with , when he wanted to be with them . |
| 18 | When I heard Deane had begged the Sheffield board to let him come to Leeds , I was really pleased that we had someone who really wanted to be here . |