Example sentences of "they actually [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and erm , we 've , we 've sorted out the balance up till the end of December , so they actually owed us money , even though |
| 2 | I got in touch with the Cathedral choir and was invited to sing with them , though they actually had plenty of quite good tenors and were I think doing me a favour rather than the reverse . |
| 3 | Oh and something else I heard yeah and this does n't get anywhere cos Lucy erm told me and did n't tell anyone but erm she was talking to Tom about erm Laura and Dave and apparently s while George and erm Dave were going out they actually planned they were gon na get back together . |
| 4 | It is often surprising what information companies do have , but how little they actually use it , so a good researcher will try hard to find what is available . |
| 5 | where the lighthouse is , and that 's what they actually use it for , taking bearings on ships , and if you do that and you draw your diagram , you can work out how far you are from the lighthouse , because it might , you might have in your charts |
| 6 | they actually sacrificed their lives did n't they ? |
| 7 | Er until they actually met them and got to know them . |
| 8 | These machines are much , much more sophisticated and they actually simulate what you do when you are skiing . |
| 9 | And er then by the time they actually came I just felt awful . |
| 10 | Different levels of comedy is where they actually break it up a bit which erm |
| 11 | It was a song with everything : baroque references , long sombre organ solos , and words so opaque that they could mean all things to all people , unless they actually asked what they meant-which was , unless one was very stoned , nothing which was why , for eleven weeks , during that summer it was high in the charts . |
| 12 | ‘ They actually asked him to look up their wretched daughter when he came to England . |
| 13 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 14 | They 're a randy lot , really — they only murder unfaithful wives if they actually catch them at it . ’ |
| 15 | That 's the advantage of ours , everybody looks exa identical cos they actually hired everything . |
| 16 | But the directors of the museum at that time were so insensitive that they actually discouraged her generous offer . |
| 17 | Whether they actually make it is up to the music buying public . |
| 18 | The bill has the backing of MPs of all parties — but it is vital that they actually support it in the Commons on 19 February . |
| 19 | If people go to bed and are in bed for a week or more and we do all of that , all that stroking and loving , then when they actually go there 's a relief at them no longer having the pain and the shock . ’ |
| 20 | What did he do for these other people and do they actually miss him more than they do themselves ? |
| 21 | They actually took they actually took the front off so that the water would get hotter . |
| 22 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
| 23 | How did they actually do it ? |
| 24 | Er so they actually got themselves organized and they erm have factories that , that er mass produce the components and they 're producing nuclear power stations at the rate of about one every six months . |
| 25 | Now these actually each each tray should have one and they actually tell you where the stuff comes from . |
| 26 | They , they , they actually tell you in the queue . |
| 27 | The client takes out a second application , and they want it on minimum premiums , they actually get it for eighty per cent of the current value of the minimum premium . |
| 28 | Yeah erm that might be true but then sometimes it can be an adventure to put ideas in people 's heads so they actually write something |
| 29 | But what they 'll probably do is sell those before they actually reach their premium . |
| 30 | And once your surveying was done , did they actually put you inside the tunnel ? |