Example sentences of "have [adv] really [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 In this chapter we have only really attended to the negative , critical , edge of left theory in so far as it challenges rival perspectives on parties and pressures .
2 We have only really looked closely at the local analysis of one particular kind of homoclinic orbit ( in section 6.4 ) ; such local analyses are interesting in their own right , but are relatively well known { 37 } .
3 But erm I think really at the end of the day staff have only really had just that one day workshop ,
4 Sadly , even the pitch control on the RP affects the speed of the sample and so Ibanez have only really got it about half right .
5 I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years .
6 Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted .
7 Only two people — Terry Wogan and Noel Edmonds — have ever really made the switch .
8 Small , budget-priced cars have never really featured in our driveway and when the Fiesta arrived , my wife , inquiring what it was like , was told : ‘ Red , you 'll enjoy it . ’
9 ‘ I think it was good to meet lots of different people but on the other hand , I have never really felt settled or had lifelong friends like most people , ’ he says .
10 This is an illogical , nay , fanciful urge since I have never really heard them .
11 Arguments about merit have never really gone away , and many people have felt that the extra effort put in by the best students need to be recognised .
12 My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less .
13 But I know you have never really rated him that highly .
14 But you could say that I have never really stopped missing Mother .
15 On the same subject , I suppose I have to point out that I have never really wanted to have children .
16 They have concentrated almost exclusively on public housing and have never really challenged owner-occupation as a form of tenure , or the quality of housing and its organisation and control .
17 The Smiths have never really conformed to the pop ideal , being larger than life but twice as monotonous , although some would disagree .
18 I have never really regarded myself as a landscape painter .
19 ‘ We have never really picked a figure , but if he wanted a certain player who was just over the amount we had in mind , we would let him have it . ’
20 Bush called for a rediscovery of " a " home truth " that the American people have never really forgotten : this government is too big and spends too much " .
21 When Manly-Warringah dropped out of the chase , St George stepped up the pressure and have never really let off .
22 We have never really had an Inquisition , never really persecuted people for their beliefs .
23 I think this is probably true of the Metropolitan Police ; they have never really allowed any fundamental research on any sensitive issue .
24 To put it another way , they have never really allowed its truth to blossom into fullness of life .
25 Carlo Maria Giulini 's Beethoven is a taste I have never really acquired , but a package which accommodates both the Missa Solemnis and the Mass in C on two discs is clearly worth investigating .
26 The two of us have never really got on .
27 ‘ Now , Ben Elton I have never really found very funny to be honest .
28 ‘ I expect you do , sir , for I have never really known her . ’
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