Example sentences of "[pron] really [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However , ’ Benjamin stared at Rachel , his face betraying his hurt at being used by her , ‘ only after examining the Templar chapel following Damien 's death did I really begin to suspect Mistress Rachel . |
| 2 | I really enjoy watching boxing and try to get to see a few sports programmes every week . |
| 3 | I really enjoy writing dialogue ; I tend to talk to myself a lot anyway so I suppose I 'm used to it . |
| 4 | I really have got stomach ache though . |
| 5 | Then I decided I really wanted to do music again , started taking care of myself and now things are a lot better . ’ |
| 6 | CHRISTOPHER : Well , I really wanted to study art . |
| 7 | I really wanted to study French at university , since I was interested in languages . |
| 8 | ‘ If there 's nothing else , Mr Burns , I really do have work to do , ’ she said at last , reaching for one of the ledgers . |
| 9 | ‘ You must n't let on , because I 'd be banned from every club and pub in the county , but I really do dislike cricket . |
| 10 | I am sure that it is an unpopular thing to say , but I really did enjoy School Practice . |
| 11 | Perhaps she really did think Grandma was being used . |
| 12 | But those who really wish to curry favour with Mad Carew can sponsor a five-course dinner plus wine for two for £70 and get a generous mention on this page . |
| 13 | Nick things that men who really love making love with women would rather grind flesh against flesh than fiddle about with straps and elastic . |
| 14 | Haskett Smith had climbed the Needle and elsewhere at a respectable enough standard , but it was Godfrey Solly — a Go-fearing solicitor who became both mayor and a freeman of Birkenhead — who really started injecting iron into the soul of climbing that cold spring day on May 15 , 1882 . |
| 15 | If time is at a premium or you really hate tack cleaning , think about investing in a synthetic saddle and bridle for everyday use and keeping your leather tack for best . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you really think marrying Beador would help ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The big question is : do you really want to stop smoking ? |
| 18 | Whenever one of the family is seen responding to their dog 's demands , he or she must pay 10p ( or 50p if you really want to see motivation at work ! ) into the other 's boxes . |
| 19 | The last set of ideas which I want to discuss , which is not which are only partly related as a matter of fact to the erm ideas of the punctuationists , are the ideas , which , as a matter of fact my colleagues here Brian Goodwin and Gerry Webster have been particularly clear and eloquent advocates , which say in effect that if you really want to understand evolution , merely thinking about the adaptation of organisms to some kind of environment is not really an adequate way of thinking about it , because when you look at organisms , look at vertebrates for example , you 'll find an astonishing range of kinds of ways of life . |
| 20 | To get the best out of your wildlife garden , you really need to echo nature . |
| 21 | To find out more about the different makes of plumbing fittings , you really need to get hold of the manufacturers ' catalogues . |
| 22 | You really have struck gold there . |
| 23 | Sometimes it takes a little while to realize you really have lost interest in something , I said to him . |
| 24 | Finally , you might use a sanction to show that you really do mean business in terms of your bargaining position . |
| 25 | ‘ You really do talk nonsense at times , Jules , ’ she repeated in a tone which she hoped sounded mockingly reproachful . |
| 26 | ‘ But would you really like to look flamboyant ? |
| 27 | Do we really want to develop trade with a country whose Government sanctions the murderous fatwa placed upon the shoulders of Salman Rushdie ? |
| 28 | If we really want to empower minority students , he says , educators themselves must find out why students are failing and how they can be helped . |
| 29 | If we really want to fight AIDS then let's turn our anger on the newspapers who spread lies and distortions ; on a government that refuses to put money into AIDS education and research and those drug companies that appear more interested in patents than cures . |
| 30 | erm the I mean we have a pentadactyl limb , whether we climb or run or fly or swim , you can recognise an obvious deep anatomical resemblance between the limbs of organisms behaving as differently as that , and therefore that if we really want to understand evolution we have to understand these erm , I do n't know whether one wants to call them plans or archetypes , or structures , call them what you will . |