Example sentences of "really [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little or no evidence of ‘ home comforts ’ in the cells , the walls of which were plain concrete , with cot-type beds and what really amounted to a hole in the wall to house each occupant 's personal effects . |
| 2 | It was clear from the type of contract entered into ( purchase of seed to grow a commercial crop to be sold for profit ) that the likely loss , caused if the defendants supplied defective seed , would exceed the purchase price by such an amount ( namely the value of the ultimate crop ) that the limitation really amounted to a total exclusion of liability . |
| 3 | For some reason , this really got to me . |
| 4 | This aspect of the military life was what really got to us , being told what to do by our so-called superiors . |
| 5 | It never really got to grips with the issues of childhood , innocence and learning about sexuality . |
| 6 | It really got to me . |
| 7 | An' I tell ya I , it really got to me . |
| 8 | I tell you , Spunk — I , it really got to me , your interpretation there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the years that I have had to research my Bombing Years lectures I realise now that we never really got to grips with the German defences until the latter stages of the war . |
| 11 | ‘ That never really occurred to me . |
| 12 | He helped to make laws , though it never really occurred to him that he should be governed by them . |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , for a while we really tried to be serious , ’ admits Puttnam . |
| 14 | You mean they really tried to … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Yeah , for a while we really tried to be serious , ’ admits Puttnam . |
| 16 | ‘ It was talked about a lot , but never really came to fruition . |
| 17 | This work , however , only really came to fruition in Engels 's famous book The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , a book which although written after Marx 's death was extensively based on his notes . |
| 18 | But if the worst really came to the worst in Japan , the resulting mess could not simply be welcomed as come-uppance . |
| 19 | ‘ It really came to people 's attention through Peel . |
| 20 | He made his debut for Palace on 27 October 1923 when Palace won 1–0 at Bradford City but he really came to the fore when an injury to Bob Greener left a vacancy in the half-back line for the 3rd Replay with Notts County at Villa Park , in Palace 's longest ever Cup-tie in February 1924 . |
| 21 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 22 | It is the only gadget I have ever bought which actually got pushed under the settee where it gathered dust for several years before I really came to terms with it . |
| 23 | It was at St John 's College , Cambridge , which he entered in the summer of 1784 that matters really came to a head , however . |
| 24 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 25 | Things really came to a head about a month ago . |
| 26 | The science of physics really came to birth during the nineteenth century , though the process of convergence of separate physical sciences had perhaps begun when Galileo united celestial and terrestrial dynamics . |
| 27 | My grandmother paid for it — she never really came to terms with Mum 's moving abroad , and I think that was her way of making sure I never lost the other half of my inheritance . ’ |
| 28 | The biggest shortcoming of the Dobry Report , however , was that it never really came to grips with the major weakness of the development control system : its general isolation from the remainder of the planning process . |
| 29 | The match really came to life when Smith put the visitors ahead five minutes before the scheduled break . |
| 30 | His relationship with the motor industry probably really came to the attention of the public in 1967 when he entered the world of rally driving in a self-prepared Mini Cooper S. The next year , in a Ford Escort 1600 , he took his first Scottish Championship title . |