Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pers pn] actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the break before he actually started , I was standing at the mirror brushing my hair and he came up , took the brush out of my hand — I had very long , waist-length , peroxide blonde hair in those days — and he said , ‘ What are you doing after the show ? ' |
| 2 | She heard the break before she actually saw the child who had fallen at the winning end of a tug-of-war rope . |
| 3 | It was his first London teaching job and he was working in the Humanities department : ‘ It was right in the beginning I suppose and there was about two months before I actually started . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you would wish to know , sir , that Her Ladyship is making good progress and I should like to take her further afield to tackle typical hunting country , so that she may get plenty of practice before she actually attends a meet . ’ |
| 5 | Designs composed of small masses of veneer forming a readable ‘ picture ’ , correspond roughly in looks , if not in colour , to subjects as they actually appear to the eye ; they seem to be in 3D even though they are flat , and to a degree they are naturalistic . |
| 6 | Deaf people also imagined hearing people to hold more negative attitudes than they actually did . |
| 7 | This quotation is one of the very few places in his work where he actually mentions soil erosion . |
| 8 | On the one hand , the Montagne de Reims suggests a much higher , tougher topography than it actually represents ; yet , on the other , to talk of rolling hills would give too tame an impression of the region . |
| 9 | But , according to Williams , this argument gives utilitarian methods greater prestige and a greater role in decision-making than they actually deserve . |
| 10 | And it 's always a good idea to let them think you 've got better enchantments in your armoury than you actually have , if you take my meaning , even if you have n't got any enchantments at all . |
| 11 | The point of that is that , by and large , you do n't distort the thing very much by chopping little bits off the bottom until it actually fits on the page . |
| 12 | ‘ The government 's proposals on patronage and sponsorship [ the so-called Ley del Mecenazgo or Patronage Law ] may provide an important boost for the Museum if it actually becomes law ’ . |
| 13 | With his dark and smouldering looks , he was the envy of millions of youngsters because he actually gets to kiss Kylie , and a little bit more too . |
| 14 | Yet , in extract ( 13 ) we can only reconstruct the intended meaning of C's third question because she actually explains her intended meaning later . |
| 15 | It 's my duty to cover certain pastoral matters before we actually get on to the business of the seminar . |
| 16 | It 's not sales technique until he actually gets the appointment , he ca n't present anything . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We we 've asked I M R O if they actually got those accounts and what they learnt from the er from the Liechtenstein company and they 've told us they ca n't , they ca n't tell us it 's er it 's private correspondence . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course , ’ she replied with far more confidence than she actually felt . |
| 21 | I think it 's probably sensible in a moment if we actually take the a walk round the house |
| 22 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 23 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 24 | I certainly never pictured it as being the same operation acting on different pieces until I actually saw it happening on the cube . |
| 25 | The police are more likely to react toward those groups and individuals whom they see as being prone to commit criminal actions ; often labelling such individuals before they actually commit a criminal act . |
| 26 | Becky laughed but had to wait another five days before she actually saw the young officer again . |
| 27 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
| 28 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
| 29 | I hung on there until , well my fifteenth birthday was in the July and it was November before I actually left . |
| 30 | There was no difference between a chick that was totally full of worms and could n't have handled any more worms , but still as it were , behaved as if it was on the point of starvation , and a chick that was really hungry , had in fact , observation shows that , what parents do when they come back with , with the food is , very often they , they probe the throats of the chicks with their beaks , to see which one 's got much most room before they actually put the food in . |