Example sentences of "he [is] really " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question he is really asking , I think , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , is this : Is that secret strength a minus or a plus ? |
| 2 | IF HE is really so crafty , how come he blundered into Kuwait and gave the Americans a reason to hammer him ? |
| 3 | He has the less scruple in issuing such orders because he can say that he is really doing what is in the man 's own highest interest . |
| 4 | How can Christ be a perfect penitent if he is really sinless ? putting it in ordinary terms : if you are completely innocent of a crime , no one is going to make much sense of it if you say : ‘ I am not guilty of this offence , but I confess on behalf of others and wish to represent their guilt . ’ |
| 5 | It would be upsetting to know that he is really not like that . |
| 6 | Gregory is wrongly seen by many as a passive and reserved figure , when he is really a strong , assertive person . |
| 7 | While this might stop the behaviour it might also stop him ringing you when he is really in difficulties . |
| 8 | He is really surprised that some people left the Lake District disgusted by the rainy weather . |
| 9 | A subject may take up the hypnotic suggestion that he is unable to bend his arm : ‘ He is actively , deliberately , voluntarily keeping his elbow stiff while simultaneously orchestrating for himself the illusion that he is really trying his best to bend it . ’ |
| 10 | But the power of this strong life-giving vibration is said to wane slowly over a 4.32 million year period , until man even forgets that he is really alive and conscious . |
| 11 | Today I drank tea alone and unarmed with the Emir as his honoured friend , and I know he is really glad to see me … ’ |
| 12 | When he says Truth is God he is really making a confession of faith rather than a statement in the indicative mood . |
| 13 | He is really proud of her 34-26-34ins ( 86-66-86cm ) figure — a bit different from the 40-38-44ins ( 102-96-112cm ) she was before . |
| 14 | ‘ He is really worried that Tatum will be swept off her feet by some Hollywood stud . |
| 15 | Thus , in the Induction to The Taming of the Shrew — a unique example of a play outside the play , not to be taken as a measure by which the rest of the play must be dismissed for lacking seriousness — the tinker Christopher Sly , brought back in a drunken stupor to the house of a mischievous lord , is deceived into thinking that he is really a gentleman . |
| 16 | when Moore says he knows such and such [ for instance that he has two hands : JD ] he is really enumerating a lot of empirical propositions which we affirm without special testing ; propositions , that is , which have a peculiar logical role in the system of our empirical propositions . |
| 17 | None of these males and , I found like , the tutor , he 's a male , and he is really bad about females being actors ! |
| 18 | When he is really inform it is a treat to watch his work on the leg side , and few who saw it will forget that catch which dismissed Paynter in the watery third Test at Old Trafford . ’ |
| 19 | You will not know that he is really er here in a commercial way . |
| 20 | Whether you pass an exam or not and you think to yourself , well they 're not really bothered about what you do , so that means you do n't really think of it in terms of , oh well , he is really taking pride in me or her and really want me to do well , it goes beyond just teaching me , it 's something personal as well . |
| 21 | The geographer on the other hand , is primarily interested in how the landscape works , and in man 's interactions with it , and thus recognizes that water is but one of the terrestrial phenomena in the total complex interacting ecosystem in which he is really interested . |
| 22 | Later , after examining maps of the area , he may discover that what he is really interested in is Parliament Hill . |
| 23 | If he is really concerned about consumer choice and the gross excesses of the factory farming industry , proper labelling is an effective and cheap way to deal with them . |
| 24 | If he is really concerned about unemployment , why does he want to cripple British industry by bringing back flying pickets , by encouraging mass pickets , by returning trade union immunities , with all the difficulties that we saw in the 1960s and 1970s ? |
| 25 | If he is really concerned to increase the number of homes available to rent , why will he not recognise that of the 700,000 empty properties , 100,000 are in the council sector and 600,000 are privately owned ? |
| 26 | Does not this place give the Prime Minister the chance to show whether he is really against the smears that have been organised against the Labour party , or is he getting others to do his dirty work for him ? |
| 27 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 28 | And , at the end of this act we are shown how his ambition has led to another theme , that of appearance and reality , where Macbeth is told by his wife to conceal his thoughts and appear to his guests to be the perfect host whereas he is really supposed to wait for the time to kill the king . |
| 29 | Hence he is always saying ‘ I do n't believe it ’ His sense of despair makes him seem very cynical , although he is really quite a sensitive soul . |
| 30 | both these play as ‘ amateurs ’ and could probably be bought for a relative small amount of pounds … other ‘ amateurs ’ include Bohinen ( who made 2–0 against England at home and is linked with Nottingham and an Italian Serie A club ) and technical wonderboy Erik Mykland who might go to France or Italy ( he is really to small and skinny to play in England ) . |