adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
absolutely/really essential
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It is absolutely essential to keep this information secret.
absolutely/really necessary
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The police are advising motorists to travel only if their journey is absolutely necessary.
deeply/very/really shocked
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We are all deeply shocked by what’s happened.
really appeals
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The idea of working abroad really appeals to me.
really expect (= definitely )
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I didn’t really expect her to come.
really like
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I really like Sam.
really liked
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We really liked the film.
really matter
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campaigning on issues that really matter
really mean
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You don’t really mean that, do you?
really
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Do you really want to succeed?
really/actually exist
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Do you think ghosts really exist?
very/really proud
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Your family must be very proud of you.
very/really scared
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By this time I was feeling really scared.
very/really surprised
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I would be very surprised if that was the case.
very/really worried
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We were really worried about him during the divorce.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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I had a very good social life and made about six really good friends.
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If some one has a really good day, I call.
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The evening was really good , but Mark and I rather missed reeling - no comparison to not-very-good disco.
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I felt really good last year when we were in this position, that we were going to come back and win.
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She had discovered the name of a really good - and expensive, but never mind! - hairdresser.
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With primary pupils you get a lot of really complicated questions, and sometimes really good ones too.
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It works for him and it's obviously brought him dividends because he's a really good player.
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Male speaker It's a really good piece of land.
necessary
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You may well ask if such precision is really necessary !
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But no coaching is really necessary in such matters.
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In truth, a guide wasn't really necessary for our party that good-weather day.
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The first step is to determine whether buttering up is really necessary .
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If the leader is so effective, is the group really necessary ?
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Is it really necessary that we learn everything by trial by fire?
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Photographs Are these really necessary and do all the sections of the list need to have them?
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Is it really necessary for me to get under the bed and shine a light like this?
■ VERB
believe
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That you really believe that you could not possibly be a victim of this terrible conspiracy.
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But I really believe everybody is going to step up.
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You're less likely to be criticised for what you really believe in.
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If Coach, if Mr Lewis, really believed I could do this...
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I really believe that Liverpool can turn around that 4-2 first leg reversal and win this game.
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I really believe I could have hit a mosquito in the eye with a pine needle at thirty paces.
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Do we really believe that such an instinct is to be found encoded only into molecular and electromagnetic patterns within the brain?
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But I really believe in the role of luck in human affairs.
care
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She had contrarily thought that if he really cared he would have come running after her.
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Mr Steve George should not really care what the status of the building is.
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I decided I was going to do this and I didn't really care what anybody else thought I should do.
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I don't really care about what happened last year.
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Do you know, sometimes I feel that the only person he really cares for on this earth is the Begum.
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How deeply did people really care ?
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She had really cared for my mother.
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Do I really care what she would think now?
enjoy
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But because I really enjoy it all how can I call it work?
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Highlight each of the skills you really enjoyed using.
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There comes a time to end everything, like leaving a party when you're really enjoying yourself.
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What he really enjoyed was the challenge and the stimulation of new problems to be solved in new and ingenious ways.
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Something the kids really enjoyed on our travels was a trip to the spectacular Tarot Gardens, near Capalbio.
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Kids 10 and younger will really enjoy it.
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Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy the dressing up but I feel he is out of control.
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They're both getting fatter and healthier, and they really enjoy their food now.
feel
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I can't really feel much that is going on.
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You never really feel like you have accomplished anything tangible.
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If you are feeling really confident, you can try one foot and one hand together.
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Art and Debbie Pacheco made us feel really welcome.
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What did he really feel for her?
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I feel really good that I work out, because I overcame all the excuses.
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And what confused her was the fact that she didn't really feel angry.
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Was it self-deception or did she really feel warm to his touch?
get
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So, now we can really get on with the party.
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Her boss, Detective Hineline, is always giving her a hard time and she never gets really mad at him.
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I get really finicky and picky.
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He really got hurt in our last game when we lost to the Steelers in the playoffs.
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She didn't really get the idea.
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Imagine what you do before the day really gets rolling: What do you have for breakfast?
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It is the charity that really gets things done for birds the countryside - action for birds, on your behalf.
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But I tell you, the adults really got excited about it.
happen
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Everybody tries desperately to have a good time, but it never really happens .
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I feel kind of foolish admitting it, but it really happened in a dream.
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To this day, I don't know what really happened to Kay Amin's body.
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At least this is a step toward the truth, what really happened .
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Only then would he know for certain that it had really happened , and that he would have to take some action.
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All this happened really fast: it probably takes a longer time to tell about it than it actually happened.
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Was it really happening in a world where women can be lawyers, prime minister, soldiers or just about anything?
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There is much on what is really happening at universities.
know
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This will only bring about grief for what do we really know about ourselves or some one else?
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No one really knows what happened.
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Last year none of them really knew me.
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He had not really known that until now, but it was true.
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We are looking at Organic growing by people who have been there and really know the problems.
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The whole body, the cells, whatever it is that is moving we do not really know .
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But no one really knows what it means.
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How could I have been living here all my life and never really known it before?
like
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Altogether, the solo is nicely formulated, but I don't really like the D notes which creep into bar 5.
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I went back to working in a business I knew I already really liked .
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Start thinking today what you would really like to work towards over the next few months and even years.
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That teachers really like it if you imitate them.
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I didn't really like him.
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I really like things having to do with sea level, being a paleontologist.
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I didn't really like her from the start, never mind feeling any love for her.
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I really liked Yale, but it was quite intimidating.
look
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Did he really look like that all the time?
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You know, really look at them and wonder about them?
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In fieldwork, you are really looking for anything that might confirm the existence of a ley.
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Wendi was really looking for a stepfather to her kids.
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It did look really smart though.
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When I really looked , he seemed so sad and out of it.
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Just lately I have made a conscious effort to really look at the book.
love
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You've got to love that idea really love it: they don't know.
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We really love playing clubs, too.
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They really love each other I really think they do.
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I love collaborating, but I really love the isolation of writing.
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But Clare really loved the country and had made some very good friends, especially in Zagreb.
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Edusha also admitted that she had never really loved Edek.
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I really love him, I really, really do.
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But, then-did he really love her?
matter
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It does not really matter how you describe the style - Wimbledon, long ball, direct.
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Well, the things that really mattered .
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It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view.
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This time the alleged transgressions involve a violation of constitutional protections that really matter in a democracy.
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Does it really matter that much in the post-Cold War period?
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You've already got Oswin, so it doesn't really matter much.
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In the West, where the one thing that really mattered was water, states should logically be formed around watersheds.
mean
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I don't even know what you really mean by the word.
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And it turns out that he does not really mean it.
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I really meant to get in touch with you again after Paris, but somehow I felt I'd blown it.
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Without really meaning to, Chuck proves her right in seven comical episodes.
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Can I really mean to personify the community in this vivid way?
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People kept asking us: What does it really mean ?
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Actually, I don't really mean that, back in time.
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Whatever that phrase really means , Tuesday's program Twentieth-Century Landscapes showed how freely composers exploited sound in the past century.
need
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I really need to talk to you.
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I didn't really need too much time to think about it, I just instinctively knew.
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Pleasure, a rarity at any rate, only serves to weaken one; what one really needs is stamina and discipline.
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I don't think you really need to approach it that way.
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But what dislocated workers really needed was some form of resource that would let them decide their own needs.
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It was so substantial that it really needs to be removed from the appetizer list and placed under entrees.
think
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And if you really think you're getting better, you can get better.
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Did he really think that abstention by the officers would influence the enlisted men?
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We really thought we'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers.
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She really thought she was sitting on the sofa in her living room.
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Had he really thought that or was he joking?
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Did they really think the Jerusalem question would be solved in a week?
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She wandered, without really thinking , down to the side of the lake.
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And although when I was very young I rarely told anyone what I really thought , I clattered on interminably.
understand
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I still meet research managers from other businesses who feel that their companies don't really understand or want them.
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Of all the servants, the only one who really understood my need to do things for myself was Koju.
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But quite often they have not really understood the question.
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They never really understood me, as the saying goes.
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Carolyn never really understood Alan's reaction to her being pregnant.
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When processes are so complex nobody really understands them, employees feel like anonymous cogs in a big machine.
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Paul still doesn't really understand why.
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But, you see, they never had the capacity of really understanding what was up.
want
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All kinds of conditioning causes us to act in a way that we know is contrary to what we really want .
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So do we really want to fight management mano a mano?
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But I've no regrets - I don't really want to own a car.
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And as I write these words I am not even sure I would really want to.
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Goal planning is the act of deciding what you really want to do and then how you will go about doing it.
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Stop denying yourself food, stop eating carrots when what you really want is carrot cake.
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He's going to resist and negotiate them down to whatever it is they really want .
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And does Terry really want him to?
work
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It's still early enough to finish them if I work really hard this month.
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The scar metaphor, which runs throughout, never really works .
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It works really well on the small screen, too.
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Miller and his colleagues worked really hard to secure the Worldwide Plaza contract: It was very important to Mosher.
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I could also assess whether this new formula or exercise was really working for them.
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It stops them from dropping out and makes them look longer and thicker - I think it really works .
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But I really worked hard on them-they represented my bes effort.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (really/quite) something
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But there was something else, too.
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Cancer was something you cut out and that was that.
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It lies unassimilated on the edge of my under-standing; there is something I must learn from it.
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Practice time is something else everyone seems to take for granted.
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She thinks this is something that concerns you, too.
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Surely there was something more to it.
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That is something that special educators have, so far, lamentably failed to offer disabled children and their families.
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Yes, there was something in there and I bet myself it would be Jo's emerald pendant.
really and truly
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A trade that really and truly helped both teams.
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She was really and truly home.
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That she'd been really and truly in love and couldn't go on.
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What he would really and truly like was to do this new degree course for Bachelor of Civil Law.
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Who really and truly and honestly gives a shit?
see/find out what sb is (really) made of
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Really , Matt, did you have to make such a mess?
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Are you sure she's really a lawyer? She doesn't act like one.
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Considering this was your first time, I think you did really well.
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Do you really want to come with us? It'll be very boring for you.
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Do you think she's really sorry?
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Don't trust James -- all he's really interested in is your money.
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He really doesn't trust me, does he?
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He failed his tests, but he's quite a bright guy, really .
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His letter really irritated her.
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I'm always really hungry by noon.
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I really like your new haircut.
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I don't think she really believes she can win.
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Is your cousin really a movie star?
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It's really cold out there.
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It's all so long ago now, it's difficult to believe that any of it really happened.
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It doesn't really matter, does it?
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My kids would really like this.
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Neither of us really wanted to stay in Texas, but we couldn't leave his family at that time.
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No, really , I'm fine. Don't worry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the tenure decision was really made because of my teaching.
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If they don't know what they do that you really like, you leave them guessing.
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Only now, he reflected, was he beginning to feel really secure.
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She used to really like those shopping trips to Nordstrom.
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The objectors really should reflect more on the alternatives.
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This is a dazzlingly entertaining novel, spirited in all ways, and really , really mean.
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Yet it was not really cold here; the temperature was well above freezing point.
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You really have to be ready for something like that.