Example sentences of "actually [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication ; my father , I recalled , had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier . |
| 2 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 3 | He feels it 's time we actually set up a working party . |
| 4 | because you can go down in your first line move to the first letter o , after the number , hit the tab key and you 've actually lined up the first line along with the rest of your paragraph . |
| 5 | But the issue here is this — Reagan , for all his cant about balancing the books , actually ran up an enormous budget deficit in the USA , and financed his arms development by borrowing . |