Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all I 'm surprised at the outburst that was given to us by Mr I would regard as my er yahabeebee and sadiki if you wish er , but he mentioned in fact the er , what used to be barbaric ac , barbaric er practice in er Pakistan . |
| 2 | He seemed in fact , as many of his visitors remarked , handsomer than ever , possibly as a result of the continued absence of alcohol from his life . |
| 3 | In the course of her research into the history of the house , she discovered that the male Pygling line had in fact died out , and that the present bearer of the hallowed name — the pathetic husband of the overbearing Mrs Pygling — came in fact through the female line and had adopted the name of Pygling . |
| 4 | Recent research has confirmed that the shells used in central Europe came in fact from the Aegean . |
| 5 | Once again , the fiction of Hollywood merged with fact ; scenes of fantasy portrayed on celluloid for entertainment — like those in Easy Rider had become , it was said , the acted-out realities of a group of people whose minds had been expanded to breaking point , until they performed deeds so indescribably vile that it barely seemed possible that one human being could inflict such wounds upon another for no apparent reason . |
| 6 | They served in fact ‘ certain functions of a public school in this respect ’ . |
| 7 | It began in fact with what are perhaps still the best crime short stories to be found ; the tales of Sherlock Holmes . |
| 8 | What if real sexual freedom , real potency , real power , belonged in fact with the woman ? |
| 9 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 10 | If the muftilik of Hizir Bey is to be understood in this sense , that he became in fact the Mufti , the silence of the great majority of Turkish sources is surely extraordinary . |
| 11 | Yeah that 's right , very good , so nine , by pouring out this holy spirit and Jesus , Jehovah was er knighting him or appointing him to be the king of this coming kingdom , thing thus have anointed with the spirit , Jesus became the Messiah , which words in the Hebrew and Greek languages mean appoint , a anointed , therefore he became in fact Jesus Christ or Jesus the United , so , so it was Apostle Peter spoke of Jesus who was from Nazareth , Nazareth , how about anointed them , but all the spirit and power , also by his baptism and water , Jesus was presenting himself to God , to carry out the work that God had sent him to earth to do , what was that important work ? |
| 12 | erm He became in fact the arch-introspective : ill , somewhat neurotic , and yet possessing unusual insight into his own and other people 's emotional and mental processes . |
| 13 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 14 | The original American legislation was only for women , and they made in fact some very erm convoluted and not very satisfactory arguments about why they should only do it for women . |
| 15 | throw I meant in fact to put them in my bag when I was coming here and I forgot . |
| 16 | Yes , when was it that your husband died in fact ? |
| 17 | None the less , the 1960s saw in fact the first significant signs of new and creative thinking ; the context was the curriculum development movement , and the catalytic factor was programmed learning . |
| 18 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 19 | Then began the 60-mile railway journey to Canton , which took in fact 5 or more hours , because of the lengthy border-formalities . |
| 20 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 21 | The years 1921–2 did in fact cover one of the worst periods in the economic fortunes of the Smolensk guberniia . |
| 22 | He did in fact inspect the port of Petrograd in late June . |
| 23 | We did in fact get through a very major reduction at Bournville without any forced redundancies . |
| 24 | We were both strong healthy girls at the time , and thought nothing of the dream ; it was just a curiosity ; but she did in fact die two years later — very suddenly , very unexpectedly , of an infection . |
| 25 | There is good photographic evidence to suggest that Day Comet did in fact finish third , but the Epsom judge that day was the same Charles Robinson who had controversially denied Craganour the Two Thousand Guineas , and he placed Day Comet fifth . |
| 26 | Meese did in fact call while they were there , to set up an interview with North for the next day , Sunday : the interview in which he was to be confronted with the memorandum . |
| 27 | By contrast in Kufra people did acknowledge circumstances in which they might have to unite with their enemies ; in 1978 they did in fact do so . |
| 28 | ‘ Suppose then , ’ I said , ‘ that she did in fact have a thing about Harry . |
| 29 | Nevertheless Fraser McLuskey 's account of air crashes does suggest that the Maquis or the local French population in general would soon have known of planes which had come down in their territory , and that the Germans , when told of wrecks , did in fact bury the crews in identifiable graves . |
| 30 | In 1957 just such an accident did in fact occur at a high-level nuclear waste dump at Kyshtym , in the Ural Mountains , when the cooling system failed in a concrete vessel containing eighty tonnes of highly active liquid waste . |