Example sentences of "he [is] actually " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all his standard procedures , I do n't think he is actually imitating anybody . |
| 2 | Nothing signifies for him , yet he seizes on details with a toneless precision , almost pedantry : when Raskolnikov calls him a gambler he says he is actually a card-sharper . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | People are beginning to wonder whether he is actually human . |
| 5 | But one thing has been proved by frequent controlled tests ; not only does the absorption of the substance into the system reduce the mental powers of the individual to a greater or lesser degree , but other problems arise because he imagines that he is actually able to function far better than usual . |
| 6 | He is actually the third Aldabra tortoise imported for the governor 's garden , each of his predecessors , however , lived for about a century . |
| 7 | We find that frequently when a husband does listen , he does little to indicate to his wife that he is actually considering her input . |
| 8 | He is actually a very good drama teacher , and because ALL drama lessons are practical they make a welcome change from the routines of writing , reading and watching videos which are the usual diet in most other subjects . |
| 9 | there appears , however , to be nothing to prevent any mental patient registering in a constituency in which he is actually resident . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the adventurers free the man , they only get attacked for their pains ; he is actually a Doppelganger . |
| 13 | If , as is sometimes the case , he is actually in a position to influence the course of events , how should he then act ? |
| 14 | My immediate boss , Ed Grainger , had n't even heard of Harley and he is actually the man who runs the golf division for Martinez . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Far from knocking the farmers he is actually ultra critical of the politics behind the industry . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At the weekend he is actually going to cook Alice a whole meal . |
| 21 | It shows , I think , that although the tramp is physically grotesque , he is actually pure at heart , like a ‘ ruined temple ’ which , although a wreck and a complete mess , is still arguably sacred and a place of purity . |
| 22 | Furthermore , he is actually criticising an early , and distinctly primitive , form of sociobiology . |
| 23 | He is not politely evading it — he is actually thinking about it . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Yeah er if you , what was on tonight was er on the , there was a T V programme on tonight called What the Papers Say and the editor Alistaire Campbell was on tonight , he is actually quite left-wing and this paper will , is actually quite vehement about the government , much more than the Sun would ever be , it 's quite interesting , yet that is owned by Murdoch , but I have to say that I think that is only because Murdoch is n't liked in that way since to have |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He is actually one of the few amongst us , who is probably quite expert on these matters . |
| 28 | He is actually one of the few men around who is not obsessed by faithlessness . |
| 29 | Albie has become a celebrity in Speke , and now he has got over the shock I think he is actually enjoying the limelight . |
| 30 | He is actually one of the few men around who is not obsessed by faithlessness . |