Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] n't actually [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 've apologized to you , and particularly to the people who write the dictionary that I do n't actually know the opposite of deja vu but it 's what I 'm suffering from . |
| 2 | I mean I am constantly being confronted with students who do things that I do n't actually understand , and they 're my own students , and actually that 's quite nice , I like that . |
| 3 | It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does . |
| 4 | It may well be that you do n't actually do that , it may be that you have one to one meetings with people or group meetings er which could be when you have to put across your point of view . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm bigger than you , stronger than you — and I 've got another advantage , because I know that you do n't actually want to leave here . ’ |
| 6 | With which I 'm left with an impression that you do n't actually know where the dwellings are going to go in general terms . |
| 7 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 8 | What I was interested in at , at the briefing er , for the Committee , was that we do n't actually go out and sell this in inverted commas , to other authorities , they come to us , because they 've heard it 's good practice . |
| 9 | And erm so we the the way we work it out ourselves , is that we do n't actually pay people 's fuel bills . |
| 10 | Erm , just on that H I V thing there , is that , is n't it a bit confusing is n't it , in that we do n't actually pay out on H I V full stop , on Aids full stop , it is , it 's really the other , the other things . |
| 11 | I thought there were two answers to that , madam , through the Chair , er , the first is that we do n't actually spend any money directly ourselves , as a County Council in America , we contribute towards the Regional Development Organization , the W M D A , and our contribution is about twenty thousands pounds per year . |
| 12 | and it 's it 's something about the shame around depression that we do n't actually come forward for counselling and there 's certainly not enough free counselling services in Scotland . |
| 13 | The most we can hope for is that we do n't actually believe it . ’ |
| 14 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 15 | They , they did have the option that they could have had complete absolute egalitarianism and made everybody into a poor peasant , but the commun but the commun the Communist Party were progressive and they s saw that how that you needed to have industrialization in order to increase the welfare of peasants which was their ultimate aim , and I mean it appears that how that they did n't actually care er what kinds of means they 'd have to achieve that , as in capitalism was justified in this longer term perspective . |
| 16 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 17 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 18 | The , they 're still , they 're , they 're not active in that they do n't actually progress your department do they ? |
| 19 | I have n't seen the draft guidelines that came out yesterday for the registration of nursing homes but I understand that they do n't actually address these issues . |
| 20 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 21 | But er I then explained to them that I realize that it does n't actually matter and it 's the quality of the image that you produce that matters and not what it 's made of or on . |
| 22 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 23 | I was never really good at pretending that I could assume my client to be innocent because I or my instructing solicitor had been careful to ensure that he did n't actually confess . |
| 24 | Timothy Hutton nodded and took his glasses off , and McLeish realized that he did n't actually need them . |
| 25 | because erm , I know he had a lot , he 'd like try to buy everything in property so that he did n't actually have a lot of cash |
| 26 | You can remind people several times during a tour that he did n't actually live , then when you get to the end they 'll ask you where he 's buried . ’ |
| 27 | I suppose I can be grateful that he did n't actually order me to help , ’ she finished drily . |