Example sentences of "actually [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He soon achieved all this , but due to an error in carpet thickness calculation , he had to climb a ladder every day for his carnal dinner which meant that when the actually made it p to the nipple-ceiling he ate much more than originally intended . |
| 2 | Nowadays many of us find that a bit strange , after all I do n't think any of us or very few of us here in this room have actually given our express consent to be British subjects . |
| 3 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 4 | Only the members of a particular committee are likely to have any proper grasp of a subject ( has anyone outside the Plant Committee actually read its report ? ) while the rest remain blissfully , and dogmatically , ignorant . |
| 5 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 6 | Erm , they were actually eating her food . |
| 7 | ‘ He has no compassion and actually encourages his wife to have an affair with Mellors so that he has an heir to his estate . |
| 8 | I think that it is a problem that youngsters , in many respects , do n't have much opportunity to actually influence their work . |
| 9 | It looks as though the parasites are actually helping their host by improving its shell . |
| 10 | However , before actually firing its spray , the skunk must revert to a position in which all four feet are on the ground , the tail is raised and the back fully arched . |
| 11 | Lord Darlington , I should say , had actually witnessed my father 's fall of a week or so earlier . |
| 12 | Even though the spreadsheet will act like a financial calculator and tell you all about your savings plan there is something to be said for actually seeing your money grow . |
| 13 | However none of them actually shared my interest in politics … . |
| 14 | And as they walked , Shelley could n't quite believe that she was really awake , and not just dreaming of walking beside him , close to him , his strong fingers actually touching her flesh , and the warmth of his breath against her cheek . |
| 15 | For these young children the haunted house gained in significance as they tackled the immediate problem of the bloody-minded landlord — just as in the ‘ prostitution , lessons a more respectful attitude to the problems of prostitution grew as the adolescents actually centred their attention on ‘ where poverty can hurt , . |
| 16 | Charity actually lowered her voice for effect , in spite of the surrounding racket . |
| 17 | But I mean Keith Keith is actually sticking his neck out on our behalf . |
| 18 | A night out was not complete without a gamble on the station machine , when the agony of nine successive defeats would be replaced by euphoria when you actually got your bar . |
| 19 | I was at his recent garden party and I have actually shaken his hand . |
| 20 | Right , they 're accusing him to be claiming to be God and they actually say they actually say their decision is that he 's guilty and should be put to death , they 've condemned him to death . |
| 21 | The best firms , he said , usually just give in , whereas under arbitration , they could actually win their case . |
| 22 | So things like erm service from another superannuation scheme or if somebody 's been paying you know extra contributions to actually boost your pension lump sum , that is actually reckonable service . |
| 23 | Before you can say Edward de Bono , it might have found a way of creatively accounting your taxes , so the taxman actually owes you money . |
| 24 | I , I w I was actually laughing my head off . |
| 25 | ACCESSIBILITY — can the enterprise actually direct its marketing effort at a particular segment , both in terms of product/product development , and marketing mix ? |
| 26 | ‘ David had been involved with a couple of things in the past , producing a couple of B-sides when I was in Quiver — we actually used his home studio for demos . |
| 27 | Well erm I 'll tell you what it is we , we actually build our business by word of mouth and it er these sort of introductions means that we rarely advertise erm and the money saved can be used to benefit policy holders such as yourself which sometimes means that it can reduce charges and erm increase bonuses wherever possible . |
| 28 | Cathy Taylor , wife of wicketkeeper Bob , believes they actually helped her marriage . |
| 29 | I guess he did n't actually know his bag . |
| 30 | While the Bush camp exposed Clinton 's sexual peccadilloes in the hope of lowering his public esteem , the revelations seemed actually to increase his sex appeal rating among women voters . |