Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] really [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of them really turns around the theory that prior to birth the unborn child is not a persona juridica and , therefore , no duty of care can be or is owed to it . |
| 2 | There are a number of biographies of Stanley Baldwin , the Conservative leader ; but none of them really casts much light on his attitude to the crisis . |
| 3 | I really , I really get the impression that there 's , there 's , it 's incredibly sort of nobody really knows what to do , you know , there 's this big turbulent thing just happening and people are very confused about the whole thing because the M May the fourth directive is n't particularly er it did n't give anybody an absolute guideline , guide to erm what to do . |
| 4 | None of which really helps us to make up our minds . |
| 5 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 6 | According to Robert Lancaster , Fison 's company chairman , although there are " pockets where there are things of ecological interest … a lot of it really does look like a wasteland . " |
| 7 | ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’ |
| 9 | The phrase group conversion is simply an easy inexact description of what really happens . ’ |
| 10 | If the approach to be found here can be tied to a previous tradition , it will be to the modern speculative grammar of which Jespersen and Sapir were eminent exponents earlier in the century ; this tradition has become unfashionable in the past two or three decades , though distinguished work in this mode has still been produced by various scholars , for instance P. H. Matthews in England and Dwight Bolinger in America ; in particular , if there are any worthwhile results in the present text , they owe much to Bolinger 's example of investigation through careful scrutiny of what really happens grammatically when a given expression is used . |
| 11 | That is the nub of what really bothers Mr Gorbachev . |
| 12 | Now while it may be difficult to gainsay the claim that these are the things on which it would be most worth spending time if there was ever no further need to struggle for the basics of human survival and comfort , life seems to be trivialised if culture and personal relations are held up as the be all and end all of what really matters . |
| 13 | This stark view of what really matters has touched off a spirited debate and will occupy us in Chapter 5 . |
| 14 | If you become aware of what really matters in your |
| 15 | ‘ If we had n't got involved in fighting over Kirsty , we might never have found out how each of us really feels . ’ |
| 16 | I 've told you what that would involve , and I do n't think either of us really wants that . ’ |
| 17 | But she has eased away and stands right in front of me , as close as you can get without touching , and her teeth are clenched and she almost glares into my face and her fist punches against my stomach as she says , ‘ Listen , you , ’ like it really hurts her . |
| 18 | With central heating and fewer smokers these days , the decoration in a home can last 10 years or more with only a couple of adult occupants and you could therefore feel the need for change long before it really needs doing . |
| 19 | Many leisure activities would hardly figure because we can only value them as ways of relaxing from engagement in what really matters . |
| 20 | With this in mind it is for consideration whether such forms should not be redesigned to separate the disclaimer of liability on the part of the hospital from what really matters , namely the declaration by the patient of his decision with a full appreciation of the possible consequences , the latter being expressed in the simplest possible terms and emphasised by a different and larger type face , by underlining , the employment of coloured print or otherwise . |
| 21 | It seems quite innocent to talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ , but with such talk we blind ourselves to what really matters . |
| 22 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 23 | Pre-trial defence disclosure — this should focus the minds of the jury on what really matters in the case which they are trying by identifying the key issues before the trial . |
| 24 | New Parks , well that asks for it really does n't it ? |
| 25 | A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former . |
| 26 | A progress background can teach you a lot about what really happens if you 're aiming to be an account executive . |
| 27 | If judicial divisions and controversial judgments are in any case inevitable , the pragmatist asks , why should the controversy not be about what really matters , about which decision will produce the least inefficient practice or the fewest occasions of injustice in the future ? |
| 28 | To do my kind of job on TV you have to be born with an insatiable curiosity about what really makes people tick . |
| 29 | Now Orlando 's city chiefs are terrified that the lid is coming off what really happens in the city . |
| 30 | For what really becomes clear , as we review these effective categorizations , with all their problems and loose ends , is that the move away from the ‘ sociological ’ is precisely the move we can not make . |