Example sentences of "really [v-ing] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 're really pretending to be English , then you must be a terrorist , I suppose . |
| 2 | ‘ At the end of the day , what we 're really looking for is the right byelection . ’ |
| 3 | What I 'm really looking for is er the option to take charge of my life myself . |
| 4 | yeah , you know quite hopeful so what I as I say what I 'm really looking for is I 've got a preference for older properties but you know try not to pin myself down to too much at the moment , I 've got about a hundred and thirty to spend so ideally I 'd like a cottage old style but I do need three bedrooms |
| 5 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 6 | Rex refused to cooperate when he realized that what Minter was really looking for was a scandal — any scandal . |
| 7 | What I 'm really searching for is a bit more evidence from the C , all participants as to why the principle of expanding an exis existing settlement has been rejected , I well appreciate that those who lived in the settlement that was chosen would not like it , but that 's not the point I 'm getting at , is there nothing in this principle of building on what 's there ? |
| 8 | It will in the end be a Treasury concern , and if the DTI is really going to be allowed to spend millions propping up Huerter , now that it 's a different government , it 's very much in Hawick 's area . |
| 9 | We 've got to have soldiers if there 's really going to be a war . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought , is Britain really going to be interested in two elderly people in a residential home ? |
| 11 | ‘ Is there really going to be a flood , d' you think ? ’ |
| 12 | People live in the real world , their not really going to be influenced , its about as sensible as saying er a Mills and Boon novel for example tells people about love are saying M I five use from Russia with Love as a training manual its the same kind of level of |
| 13 | Was she really going to be caned ? |
| 14 | Er I I think I take Mr 's point that er you would n't go to well a mile it 's really going to be horses for courses is n't it ? |
| 15 | If the law is really going to be so pedantic over this , then the least the police can do is ensure everybody is aware of the rules well in advance . |
| 16 | Are shoppers really going to be offended by a ponytail ? |
| 17 | I 've got a couple of erm , really going to be specific to do essay writing , but I need to get in the subjects in . |
| 18 | Like we 're really going to be taken seriously now . |
| 19 | And do you think that 's really going to be an application , as it were , that will appeal more to the lay person rather than person that uses a computer for business or professionally one way or another ? |
| 20 | Although he enjoyed ARP work my husband was really fretting to be back with the Navy . |
| 21 | ‘ That must have cost a pretty penny , ’ Mickey Aronson declared , not really expecting to be told the price . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 23 | So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long . |
| 24 | ‘ I need to know , Malamute , ’ she said frostily , and Tammuz knew what she was really asking for was his permission to intrude upon his therapy programme . |
| 25 | What I was really counting on was finding my way to the bed which Dennis had been denied . |
| 26 | My own opinion is that all cold-blooded animals are endowed with responsive behaviour that can be mistaken for higher intelligence , when what we are really dealing with are reflex actions to given stimuli — as in Pavlov 's dogs , which salivated when a bell they associated with food was rung . |
| 27 | For what we are really talking about are merely linguistic symbols and the manner in which such symbols are manipulated within certain contexts , and all that can be detected here are certain similarities . |
| 28 | Now they call it defensive driver training and er what we 're really talking about is safe driving , nothing more and nothing less . |
| 29 | So erm you know that 's th what I 'm really talking about is more a question of the process of erm career choice , than it is saying what you should do . |
| 30 | I think basically having having heard the argument put forward from from both sides what what we 're really talking about is a is a policy that in in terms of its support from the districts it depends whether or not any particular district council might have such a use for the policy . |