Example sentences of "he [is] actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he is actually taking some action , and he will come back to us fairly soon he said erm about the result of his survey , whether or not there 'll be a residents ' scheme down there . |
| 2 | He is not politely evading it — he is actually thinking about it . |
| 3 | We find that frequently when a husband does listen , he does little to indicate to his wife that he is actually considering her input . |
| 4 | But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the |
| 5 | You see , he 's not just asking them a question for the sake of it , he is actually trying to teach these , these blind folks , er er , these , these blind men , er er er some spiritual truth . |
| 6 | If we discount Anderson 's lecture in scenes eleven to fourteen on the grounds that he is actually reading from a prepared script , rather than speaking conversationally , this turn of 53 words is the only long turn taken by him after scene six . |
| 7 | Albie has become a celebrity in Speke , and now he has got over the shock I think he is actually enjoying the limelight . |
| 8 | Furthermore , he is actually criticising an early , and distinctly primitive , form of sociobiology . |
| 9 | A third , but much cruder version in the Wisbech Museum , shows the smith working at his bench although what task he is actually performing is not clear ( fig. 14.25 ) . |
| 10 | At the weekend he is actually going to cook Alice a whole meal . |
| 11 | So if y if you 're manoeuvring round him and he suddenly changes his mind we 're compounding what he is actually doing , by getting assuming that he 's gon na do the right thing . |
| 12 | My concern is with the nature of his reputation , and the striking extent to which both his admirers and his detractors are unable to agree on what kind of writer Derrida is , or even what he is actually saying . |
| 13 | For all his standard procedures , I do n't think he is actually imitating anybody . |
| 14 | For as the election draws ever-nearer , he is being asked to make what for him must be the ultimate sacrifice : from time to time , he is actually having to be nasty . |
| 15 | Now what saying with that , that 'll be used again when he is actually walking and does n't need a pram and the other one 's still toddelling |
| 16 | Apart from an admission , the prosecution have to rely on catching the offender redhanded by keeping observations on a suspect or by British Telecom tracing a persistent caller when he is actually making a call etc . |
| 17 | Well we have , you maybe surprised to learn the 5th costliest defence in the country , valued at stlg9.3m ( excepting the aberration of Ipswich who have Marshall in the defense valued at stlg3m , when he is actually playing up front ) . |
| 18 | and records himself going for a piss but he does a bit , it cuts out when he 's actually pissing but he 's going on about now the biros are getting in the way of my knob here |
| 19 | I think too , ’ said the Archdeacon with untoward frankness , ‘ Marr feels himself to be entitled to more success in the Church than he 's actually achieved . |
| 20 | They 're invited in to talk about a particular thing that 's coming in , about noise or about rats in the basement or about how to , and the interviewer has a very vague idea it 's a topic he 's heard it , he 's thought about it , he thinks it 's a local thing , and he 's actually trying to get something out of it in a sense . |
| 21 | If you have a pre he 's actually said to me if you have a problem I will listen and I will help you , so there 's me going to him and saying look due to a misunderstanding I have a problem and this one saying tough |
| 22 | He 's actually sacked his own foreman , the main contractor cos the main , the foreman turned up on site and this I think is one of the lessons to be learnt , is that foreman turned up on site and saw what was happening |
| 23 | Amega five hundred , half meg , includes mouse , joy-stick , ten copied games , he 's actually writ it . |
| 24 | Erm but he did say that he 's actually writing a leaflet which they can run to seven or eight pages . |
| 25 | That does n't mean he 's going to draw it , he 's actually drawing on average this guy around a thousand , hundred pounds , one thousand two hundred pounds he 's been thousand pounds , but he 's actually drawing one thousand two . |
| 26 | That does n't mean he 's going to draw it , he 's actually drawing on average this guy around a thousand , hundred pounds , one thousand two hundred pounds he 's been thousand pounds , but he 's actually drawing one thousand two . |
| 27 | He 's actually stated that he we have letter in which he states that he erm the Three Hundred group has his full support . |
| 28 | Well it 's not very clear whether he 's actually thinking or seeing it . |
| 29 | It 's not clear whether he 's actually thinking about a fox or seeing a fox or so , yes . |
| 30 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |