Example sentences of "in fact [pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The image of counter staff did need some polishing , in fact they had just put all their 1,300 people through a course teaching them ‘ how not to behave like Sharons and Traceys . ’ |
| 2 | In fact they needed little breaking in and after only a couple of long walks they were very comfortable indeed . |
| 3 | In so doing , they imagine themselves set in diametrical opposition to their society where in fact they have unwittingly accepted its crucial structural elements . ’ |
| 4 | The Religious Society of Friends keep their ceremonies as simple as possible , in fact they have hardly changed since the 17th century . |
| 5 | In fact we had never lost it . |
| 6 | Sarah Burge was a Barnardo child , who was photographed in eighteen eighty three — in fact we 've just passed the centenary , I realize , of this occasion — at eight years old , and I 've seen the photograph and it was , of course , used for fund raising purposes , but I wrote a poem to this obviously long dead girl . |
| 7 | In fact we 've just refused er the application er to change the use of that site to housing , or some of that site to housing , er for the very reason that we want to keep it in employment use and at the same meeting we also refused another site , another major employment site , erm and we want to keep that in employment use as well . |
| 8 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 9 | Er and that 's what missing and in fact we 've now got a balance figure at the end there but er I 'm not too sure what it means . |
| 10 | In fact we 've recently had a fourteen thousand pound booklet and you can when you take this home work out yourself exactly what that generated in three weeks for the sales consultant . |
| 11 | Can I say , Bill , it 's very interesting that in a programme erm which is supposed to be talking about John Major we 've in fact discussion erm getting women into Parliament , we 've discussed Margaret Thatcher a lot , we 've discussed the press portrayal of all politicians , and in fact we 've hardly mentioned John Major . |
| 12 | In fact we have just suggested the reverse order of development . |
| 13 | In fact we have just had another issue of shares . |
| 14 | Moving offices and such at work , in fact we ve just had a drink to ‘ celebrate ’ so please excuse any slurred words and the like … |
| 15 | In fact it has only begun . |
| 16 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 17 | In fact he had even made some appropriately sophisticated comment . |
| 18 | In fact he had specifically warned against taking the ‘ days ’ of Genesis literally . |
| 19 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 20 | The jackal thinks he has feasted on the buffalo when in fact he has just eaten the eyes , entrails and testicles rejected by the lion . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me . |
| 22 | It is not the only roof over his head — in fact he has never lived in it . |
| 23 | In fact you 've scarcely changed since we first met . |
| 24 | He always stayed calm , but he had a knack of turning things around so that you thought you were getting your own way when in fact you 'd just agreed with him . |
| 25 | In fact you need never move far from the apartments as there is a pizzeria on the corner , a supermarket and plenty of cafés close by . |
| 26 | In fact I 'd carefully scripted the whole thing , grading the language to keep it within the students ' capabilities . |
| 27 | She had never come up to my room before , in fact I 'd never seen her outside her own . |
| 28 | It 's a full-time job ; in fact I 've just spent my leave there simply to give them a break for a few days . ’ |
| 29 | In fact I 've already heard of a very good job which would be just right for you , teaching the five daughters of an Irish family . |
| 30 | Erm simply to remind you of the position of of Selby District in in that our interest in a new settlement emerged out of concern for the quality of life in existing villages in in Selby district , and concerns for the impact of future peripheral development in those villages , and not just peripheral development on the edge of York , although of course we acknowledge that as an important consideration and it is for that reason that we fully supported the County Council 's proposals in relation to greenbelt , erm you asked the question earlier in relation to the P P G advice and and the six criteria , erm in fact I 've already rehearsed that argument in my submission so I wo n't repeat it now , erm the fact that you chose to phrase the question that way I 'll take as a good omen as to the way I presented my submission , but it it it 's there for you to read again , the the the main point that I want to address is something that was raised by Mr Wincup yesterday , and that was the difference or not as between Selby district and Hambledon district , er M Mr Jewitt 's made reference earlier to his opposition to the new settlement , and in doing so he he he mentioned the settlement pattern in Hambledon district , he 'll correct me if I 'm wrong , but one of small dispersed villages , well in Selby district we do have villages of that nature , but the Northern part of of Selby district is significantly deferent to Hambledon , it 's characterized by much larger villages , and in fact the establishment of a new settlement would n't conflict with with the settlement pattern at all . |