Example sentences of "i really " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really do n't see what good that would do , ’ snapped Miss Pinkney . |
| 2 | ‘ I really do n't see why any hostess should be pleased to see a total stranger arrive at her dinner party . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , Carla , I really do n't . ’ |
| 4 | I really do n't know what to say . |
| 5 | Also — and I 'm quite prepared to admit this — because of all the problems I was having trying to find work , just at that moment I really did n't want the bother of hunting for a new home . |
| 6 | ‘ I really hope there 's something out there for you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ How far have I really got ? ’ |
| 8 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 9 | I really do n't know . ’ |
| 10 | I would have to live on cheap or free food , so what I really needed to do was to go and see some nuns . |
| 11 | I really did n't want that . |
| 12 | I really do n't know what 's going to happen , to be honest . ’ |
| 13 | Then , when I really insisted that they keep right on the centre line , they found they could do it if they tried hard . |
| 14 | I really do n't know what to say . ’ |
| 15 | But only when I really want to . |
| 16 | ‘ I really do n't want to close this off , ’ she said , grinding her cigarette to ash and frayed tobacco . |
| 17 | ‘ I really did think you 'd gone , dear , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ I really do have to be going now , ’ she said . |
| 19 | I really felt she had gone too far ; the book must have cost a small fortune . |
| 20 | I really feel a foreigner and walk up the drive cursing the mud that has ruined my gold stilettos . |
| 21 | ‘ There are lots of English painters I really do like . ’ |
| 22 | I really had no idea if this was true . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | As a consequence I really wish that I had spent the extra money and bought a slightly better machine . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I really enjoyed it , ’ Calcavecchia said , yawning in mid-sentence . |