Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pers pn] actually do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deaf people also imagined hearing people to hold more negative attitudes than they actually did . |
| 2 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 3 | He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home . |
| 4 | I used to say that when the good times returned to Ayresome Park and we actually did a little bit more worthwhile than finish third in Division Two , then the headlines would shine on us . |
| 5 | You 're allowed relatively small quotations of other people without being accused of plagiarism and breach of copyright , but you have to do it advisedly , so make sure you know the rules if you actually do this . |
| 6 | A NORTH-EAST company was fined a total of £1,300 with £582 costs for claiming its products contained more meat than they actually did . |
| 7 | In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain . |
| 8 | Yeah yeah I went , well eventually but like you say it was long wh it was a long while before I actually did get to sleep but got there eventually I 'm been to solicitor today Annie . |
| 9 | At the same time , in theory they wish to accept that Ulster protestants form part of the Irish people while they actually do not accept them in practice . |
| 10 | We owe a great deal to Ptolemy ; without him , we would know much less about ancient science than we actually do . |
| 11 | Bennett suggests that whatever precise outcome of the review , ‘ the climate of debate can be changed a lot before you actually do anything about it and that 's what will happen before the next election ’ . |
| 12 | Although these are different from the European Blue Flag Awards , they will be indicated by variations in blue flags and may be understood by the public to mean that beaches meet European standards when they actually do not . |
| 13 | Adopt a system that alerts to you the fact that you are running out of forms before you actually do so ; put a note in the drawer ten forms from the bottom for this purpose . |
| 14 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 15 | I think the actions of the security firm at the time were very quick , and but for their actions I feel we may have had far more serious consequences than we actually did . ’ |
| 16 | It seems an obvious assumption that these relatively simple organisms appeared very early in the history of life , but for a long time there was no proof that they actually did so . |
| 17 | Erm but what we will have to do is set up our local procedures as regards agents queries and things like that in both countries , both with and also whatever you decide in Denmark of how we run the procedure but that can be something later but what we 'll need to do is no doubt before we actually do the distribution to the agents and the erm the information out to them th why we 're going into on our own as opposed to being served by the other carriers . |
| 18 | They have about 14 guitars on stage and they actually do seem to have to half destroy their guitars to get those sounds out of them ! |
| 19 | The pilot , frantically trying to avoid disaster , felt his craft tilt and knew the big rotors were going to hit the gatehouse before they actually did . |