Example sentences of "[pers pn] actually [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er what I actually mean is whenever you have an idiom , you can substitute in the position of a whole sentence or of a verb phrase , but you ca n't substitute it for a subject and a verb , leaving the object of the sentence intact . |
| 2 | So all I actually remember is unhappiness ? |
| 3 | The real issue over time I actually think is affordability of housing which relates directly , not to some sort of magic dogma of any sort but relates to the supply of housing , the supply of housing both in the public and in the private sector and it is the supply side of housing where this government has fallen down . |
| 4 | On my machine at least the re-programming does n't work for shifted keys and what you actually get is the 2 key producing the S. I have fiddled around with different forms of getting ANSI.SYS to do it but so far I have failed . |
| 5 | Cos what you actually need is n't just your monthly figure , is it ? |
| 6 | What you actually do is not put it in percentage but in shares . |
| 7 | What you actually do is you pay off the loan gradually over that peri period of twenty years , so you get from that point to that point and it 's , it 's sort of level to start with , you 're paying mainly interest off and not much capital , so when you get a statement from the building society , you still seem to owe virtually the same that you started with . |
| 8 | What you actually do is erm list what it is that you 're gon na critically evaluate . |
| 9 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
| 10 | We noted in chapter 1 that when we observe language in use , what we actually observe is the speech of individuals in conversational settings — we do not directly observe overall patterns of use in the sociolinguistic dimension . |
| 11 | What we actually mean is a sort of mini manifesto introduction to the Green Party booklet sixteen pages or so . |
| 12 | What we actually put is , er , it is the responsibility in the conditions of carriage . |
| 13 | The amount of fat we actually need is staggeringly low at 5 grams ( less than a quarter of an ounce ) per day , providing it contains the right kind of fatty acids . |
| 14 | It follows that ‘ To teach the value of living in a democracy is therefore , by implication , to raise the issue of whether the society in which we actually live is democratic or not . ’ |
| 15 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 16 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 17 | The title of this article may suggest that I am claiming that all girls are marginalised in mathematics , but I hope that I have indicated that the situation we actually see is far more complicated than this . |
| 18 | It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space , a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction . |
| 19 | This we actually see is just a continuation of the service that we currently provide for refugees withgin the community , adding another dimension to us . |
| 20 | So that ca n't be why , when we want to tell people the truth about what 's going on , what we actually do is try to give them our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 21 | When we set out to tell other people the truth by saying things , what we actually do is to say not what we believe , but what we believe we believe — which , as Freud and others have taught us , is n't always the same thing . |
| 22 | Once you 've done that what we actually do is to look for for sub-patterns in those tuples . |
| 23 | Within these billowing clouds strange and terrifying things are often seen ; whether these are the products of men 's ensorcelled imaginations or whether they actually exist is something not often discussed . |
| 24 | Module A can call module B and also module C. No sequencing for these calls nor whether they actually Occur is implied by the diagraming notation . |
| 25 | And during the sort of formative weeks or months of my joining the company the B M S was introduced , and the rules were that the telesales people will now become sales people , and that was one of my briefs if you like , that what you are going to get in front of you Peter is a , is a load of people who are currently working what 's called telesales and what they actually do is make appointments . |
| 26 | What they actually do is they , they 're a funnel for information . |
| 27 | Oh it should have a Mercury numbers in cos all they actually do is rent a B T line and pay for it . |
| 28 | What they actually do is the two independent ones join together and instead of have separate Os you get O two again . |
| 29 | The Third Annual Punch Egothon ( Spring Edition ) : while it presumes to expose the year 's most overbearing , vain , egocentric celebrities , all it actually does is to unwittingly credit these attributes to your own good selves . |
| 30 | The role it actually plays is that of an exclamation , or a signal to another person that he can now expect me to , say , continue a series according to a formula . |