Example sentences of "they actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and erm , we 've , we 've sorted out the balance up till the end of December , so they actually owed us money , even though |
| 2 | They actually failed to mention the main point of this chapter ( Table 5.4 ) , that the great bulk of factory job loss resulted from changes in production and employment in manufacturing as a whole , with only secondary variation resulting from the performance of its different parts . |
| 3 | and they actually failed there erm her riding test because they were n't sitting straight on the horse . |
| 4 | ‘ The crews have reported that they actually prefer the air system because it gives them more control over the trains as they come down the hill . ’ |
| 5 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
| 6 | Er but in our London office , apparently they do a lot of inheritance tax planning because of the size of estates , and they actually invite the children in , and say to the children look , you know , if erm you die , the estate will be devalued by forty thousand because of tax , er if you want to make provision the , the er the contract is still written on the erm , the erm individuals ' lives , but it can then be erm paid by the children , so your children can then pay the premiums . |
| 7 | And we must all agree with George when he states that in future the pill pedlars will not only have to show that their nostrums work , ‘ but also that they actually bring benefits in social and economic as well as in purely medical terms ’ . |
| 8 | We may decide let's be passive and move to battle decide is actually an important issue and wan na be aggressive and they actually bring in a relationship so important . |
| 9 | It must be remembered they must pay on maturity , whether or not they actually receive the covering funds from the seller , having been paid for the underlying commercial transaction by the buyer . |
| 10 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 11 | We do not know if their society ( and here , of course , we are assuming that they actually had a society ) was matriarchal or patriarchal . |
| 12 | His parents then called from the USA and were given the false impression that British Consul staff were co-ordinating the search , when they actually had no regular contact with the Spanish authorities involved . |
| 13 | It was argued by some on the Public Schools Commission ( DES , 1970 ) , for , that parents and children would appreciate the value of the education they received and not simply take it for granted if they actually had to part with some money . |
| 14 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 15 | I got in touch with the Cathedral choir and was invited to sing with them , though they actually had plenty of quite good tenors and were I think doing me a favour rather than the reverse . |
| 16 | They actually had most of the mid-field posession . |
| 17 | They actually had a vested interest in having inequality within the coun er er because it , it retained classes and therefore potential class conflict within the countryside and therefore it offered a way forward to socialism . |
| 18 | I think in the end , yes , the money was with England erm and in the end , the amount of possession that they actually had , that erm it sort of told the day in the end . |
| 19 | Oh and something else I heard yeah and this does n't get anywhere cos Lucy erm told me and did n't tell anyone but erm she was talking to Tom about erm Laura and Dave and apparently s while George and erm Dave were going out they actually planned they were gon na get back together . |
| 20 | There are , however , two quite common situations where , although the indirect customer rules look as though they apply , they actually don " t . |
| 21 | They actually lessen the possibilities of guilt and remorse being felt by the young person for the behaviour which brought about such action . |
| 22 | Now Hewlett-Packard Co is following Digital Equipment Corp in — as an option — charging for all HP 3000 and HP 9000 software according to the number of users on the machine , regardless of the processor size , the idea being that customers get to pay for what they actually use . |
| 23 | It is often surprising what information companies do have , but how little they actually use it , so a good researcher will try hard to find what is available . |
| 24 | they actually use the actors who are going to be there because it 's easier |
| 25 | So beside a steel works you will have an oxygen-making plant because they actually use oxygen by the ton . |
| 26 | where the lighthouse is , and that 's what they actually use it for , taking bearings on ships , and if you do that and you draw your diagram , you can work out how far you are from the lighthouse , because it might , you might have in your charts |
| 27 | Neil , Gavin and Joyce acted full out the parts they actually played in the main stage performance and read in the other parts with scripts in their hands . |
| 28 | Although the plots of the two books would seem to be very different , they actually end in a similar manner , on a promising note . |
| 29 | How do they actually decide in the end what penalty to impose , assuming a person 's found guilty of course ? |
| 30 | They actually quoted a hundred thousand pound |