Example sentences of "[pron] really " in BNC.
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| 31 | I really do n't know what 's going to happen , to be honest . ’ |
| 32 | Then , when I really insisted that they keep right on the centre line , they found they could do it if they tried hard . |
| 33 | I really do n't know what to say . ’ |
| 34 | But only when I really want to . |
| 35 | ‘ I really do n't want to close this off , ’ she said , grinding her cigarette to ash and frayed tobacco . |
| 36 | ‘ I really did think you 'd gone , dear , ’ he said . |
| 37 | ‘ I really do have to be going now , ’ she said . |
| 38 | I really felt she had gone too far ; the book must have cost a small fortune . |
| 39 | I really feel a foreigner and walk up the drive cursing the mud that has ruined my gold stilettos . |
| 40 | ‘ There are lots of English painters I really do like . ’ |
| 41 | I really had no idea if this was true . |
| 42 | ‘ The only thing I really want is for Alonzo Kettless to carve me an East Suffolk Policeman 's helmet , ’ said Chief Superintendent Rom Rumsby on his retirement . |
| 43 | As a consequence I really wish that I had spent the extra money and bought a slightly better machine . |
| 44 | Irate with frustration through constantly having to pick up my pencils after bending over , I really thought I 'd cracked it when I bought a ‘ posh ’ mechanical pencil , with a clip . |
| 45 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 46 | When I first loaded up the pack I really thought it would be a bit top heavy — it 's a longer and slimmer pack than most British models — but I was delighted to discover that my fears were unfounded . |
| 47 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 48 | What Pound did to English literature and British sensibilities does n't seem forgivable , and I really think that the English were more offended by Pound 's political obsessions than were the countrymen he ostensibly betrayed . |
| 49 | ‘ I really enjoyed it , ’ Calcavecchia said , yawning in mid-sentence . |
| 50 | I really do n't see a handicap as a handicap , I just enjoy Becky for who she is and what she is . ’ |
| 51 | I really can not see how high interest rates which penalise investment … help in the fight against inflation . ’ |
| 52 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
| 53 | Leaf mould is what I really lust for , but no one sells it and it would be ecologically unsound and legally unwise to go digging it out of Wimbledon Common . |
| 54 | And now I really make my jokes on the spot . |
| 55 | The line I took with the manager was that , as a composer of music for films , I really needed to see equal commitment all along the picture beam to the public . |
| 56 | When I first started there I really felt like the proverbial spare prick at a wedding . |
| 57 | For example , I really liked the Jowett Javelin but by then they 'd already pretty much disappeared . |
| 58 | So the very few that were still on the road I really treasured and appreciated seeing . |
| 59 | Blimey , he said , if that bloke asks where the action is one more time I really do n't know what I 'll do . |
| 60 | What sparked the idea off , I really do n't know . |