Example sentences of "[pron] was actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claims , for instance , that when he was researching Whigs and Hunters , ‘ on several occasions , while I was actually watching , the lonely hour of the last instance actually came ’ ( Thompson , 1979 : 299 ) . |
| 2 | SUCH is the power of coincidence that while I was actually writing the letter published on this page today — the one from a sad widow who 's beloved dog had died — a press release plopped onto my desk . |
| 3 | No I was actually getting at a certain person that works for Trident that does n't think it 's worth extra hassle for a hundred and eighty pounds more a year . |
| 4 | ‘ I was actually thinking about suicide , ’ he confessed to Barbara . |
| 5 | Brought up well as I was actually born in the village and that 's where I 've come home to roost when I left the army . |
| 6 | The house that I was actually born in is still there , number twenty five er after a while I moved across the road to a bigger house when , cos my mother had an another son and a daughter and then we moved over to the , so when we were quite a bit in the Stoke area . |
| 7 | I was born in London in nineteen thirty-eight , but my father was German , my mother was English , I was actually born in the German Hospital in London . |
| 8 | Er , my my natural mother er , actually had me adopted when I was a baby and erm so I was actually adopted by a minister and his wife and I think , erm , I would have been brought up completely differently if she , she 'd just bought me up on her own , you know , so I think erm oh that 's it really . |
| 9 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
| 10 | I was actually living on his farm at the time . |
| 11 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 12 | I remember that in 1970 I was actually called deranged because I drew attention to the various forms of manifest nonsense on which ‘ The Thing ’ was battening . |
| 13 | Right and and by putting these prices up on the lancer and that I was actually clawing a couple of thousand pound back off them . |
| 14 | Wycombe were beaten by Bob Taylor 's 82nd-minute winner , and their disconsolate boss Martin O'Neill said : ‘ I was actually looking forward to extra-time because I was so sure we would win . |
| 15 | I was actually looking forward to extra time because I was so sure that we would win . |
| 16 | I was actually looking at you before I came in , but just come out here for a second There are two ways I can hurt you . |
| 17 | My idea of a nature reserve and what I was actually looking at were not the same thing at all . |
| 18 | So I was actually messing around with the Tax Officer for quite a while because I was on demob leave and I was also working so he was n't gon na let me have two lots of sa wages . |
| 19 | No , no , I , I wa I was actually referring to the , the nature of , and the , whether if Shropshire was the same as the national . |
| 20 | I was actually weeping with advance self-pity before I got there . |
| 21 | I was actually tied to the stake and the kindling lit but , once again , fortune intervened . |
| 22 | ‘ I was actually remembering the first part ! |
| 23 | Well , if you want something to drink to , this one will make you laugh — I was actually nurturing the idea of working for you one day . |
| 24 | I was actually reading off it |
| 25 | I was actually mugged on holiday er then years ago and I was held up with a gun and it was the most horrendous feeling |
| 26 | I got a lot of stick for that at first but when my tutor realised I was actually producing work it was okay . |
| 27 | For a second I was mesmerised by the chasm before me but as the only way I was going to fall was it I made the effort to jump , I realised that I was actually enjoying the thrill of imagined danger . |
| 28 | Did you think I was actually enjoying it ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 30 | I could n't believe the mild , interested responses — before long I was actually having what amounted to a conversation . |