Example sentences of "[noun sg] he actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm I 'm about to apologize to Mr Grigson , because I see from his submission he actually did distribute it by district within the er Greater York area , er yea , planning by Selby is not I think the right approach , but . |
| 2 | The first is that by positioning himself conspicuously behind a veil , the Resident could leave the population in a state of desirable uncertainty about the degree of influence he actually exercised over their emir : his advice was not seen to be taken , but neither was it seen to be rejected . |
| 3 | It 's the only guitar and the only amp he actually owns and , basically , that 's his sound . |
| 4 | Although he occupied the palace of the former French Governor-General he actually lived in the gardener 's lodging and grew flowers and tomatoes . |
| 5 | The Thomas Harris referred to was closely associated with the composer , and his signature may be seen as witness to Handel 's will and to its first three codicils ; in the fourth and last codicil he actually becomes a beneficiary . |
| 6 | When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me . |
| 7 | By self-selecting he actually creates the risk of face-loss himself , a fact which is reflected in the lack of assuredness in his utterance . |
| 8 | Love does not delight in evil he actually feels bad about forgetting , |
| 9 | Indeed there were several rounds when Eubank not only back-pedalled to escape Eubank 's plodding attack he actually turned and ran unashamedly to avoid toe-to-toe confrontation . |
| 10 | Hoomey was more frightened of doing it than anything else , even the swimming , and yet , curiously , it was the one thing he actually wanted to succeed at . |
| 11 | He had decided to give up , had , indeed , spent several hours trying to think of one thing he actually liked about Elinor when , two days before the funeral , she looked up from a quiche Lorraine ( 'Billykins says it 's about all she could face ’ ) and barked : ‘ What are we going to drink ? ’ |
| 12 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 13 | It needs a special artist to sustain such a programme , and the wonderful thing about Vengerov 's playing is that in , say , the Paganini First Concerto , one can sit back and take the accomplishment for granted , acknowledge that he can overcome any Paganinian hurdle , and simply relish the way he actually makes something of the music . |
| 14 | I think it is the first time he actually worked hard . |