Example sentences of "[pers pn] were actually [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easy Rider was the motivation for a lot of things and for those not familiar with the story , it is one of free love and excessive drugs and of American society as perceived by Hopper in 1968 , with some moralistic warnings about drug use and undertones about the consequences of such a lifestyle — but only if you were actually looking for them . |
| 2 | and you got your points in , I mean you asked whether it was worthwhile , you did that very well actually er and you were good on reminding the prospect why you were actually asking for recommendations , probably a little bit weak after that point although you did , you , you picked up again , there were , there were points we 're looking for you did pick up referrals mentioned earlier . |
| 3 | There you 'll be interviewed just as if you were actually going for the job . |
| 4 | well this was the all , the ho all the hull underneath the water line was glass so you were actually sitting you know , you were n't looking down , you were actually sitting in , in the base of the hull of the boat |
| 5 | And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches . |
| 6 | ‘ We were actually looking for something a little more positive , old boy , ’ he protested . |
| 7 | well we were actually going to be going through the Halifax but have you got any other suggestions ? |
| 8 | But only the or the project manager would know what we were actually going to be made . |
| 9 | Because it is ground offensive in sand , you want to be able to see that if you 're being shot , we could n't we could n't do that , and it became questionable whether we were actually going to be able to see the ground or not , so we called it aboard . |
| 10 | So I think it 's part of the the early morning set up and we were actually gon na talk to Steve were n't we , about |
| 11 | How many did I say we were actually talking about Brian ? |
| 12 | I used to wonder whether they were actually taking in the meaning of what I was saying , or just listening to the accent . |
| 13 | I mean , they were actually looking at it and we were going , but it 's not the same furniture . |
| 14 | The fact that they were needed by the state , because there was a " public " dimension to their activity , meant that they were actually co-opted into governmental decision-making : they were asked to give advice , and , more than this , they came to act as agents through which state policy was actually implemented . |
| 15 | would n't get bed sheets unless they were actually stripped off the bed , things like that . |
| 16 | Hindsight throws a retrospective shadow over people and events which distort light and shade as they were actually perceived at the time . |
| 17 | Women homeworkers ' earnings were extremely low and there is some evidence that they were actually declining during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 18 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 19 | what 's happening ? fucking dishes are n't even they were actually sitting on the table |
| 20 | The floor plans that they were actually shown on their training course were out of date for the procedures , so that 's what my whatever , erm security |
| 21 | This game was a little disheartening , not so much because of the disciplinary problem , but because it showed all too clearly that few if any of them were actually listening to what I was saying . |
| 22 | these , all these terraced houses , and a quite a lot of them were actually built by and . |
| 23 | In those days — we 're talking 1890 to about 1915 — there were hundreds of different brands and varieties of guitars being made in the United States , but it 's hard to say for sure that any of them were actually distributed in Hawaii — it was kind of off the beaten track . |