Example sentences of "[vb past] actually " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that 's what I moved actually , that he |
| 2 | Erm , what I found actually er erm even odder , was that is , if the servants knew about her , why did nobody appear at the wedding ceremony ? |
| 3 | The basic premise of the show is that music programming , by and large , patronizes the audience and seems to be made by people who stopped actually being interested in music , especially new and underground forms , long ago — TV people . |
| 4 | Caught actually bou bouncing about on the that little we did n't |
| 5 | The prosecutor must prove that the person charged actually uses or threatens some violence . |
| 6 | On damp proofing , the local firm used actually advised doing it partially , in order not to upset the balance in the timber . |
| 7 | There is agreement , certainly in the mental health field ( Huxley , 1991a ) that case management works best when its purpose is clearly articulated in the form of service goals ; the outcome measures used actually assess progress in these target areas ; the theoretical model and content of the programme are consistent with the service goals ; and case management is focused on a narrowly defined target group of those most in need . |
| 8 | She says the reason for this is ‘ the need to believe that the event recounted actually took place , or is taking place : no one believes a prophet , and even a prediction needs to be realised within the narrative for sense and interest ’ ( 329 ) . |
| 9 | In such situations we typically do not know beforehand what all the linguistic variants involved actually are , so we must use very careful and accountable methods of selection and analysis . |
| 10 | Today , had lots of corners , scored actually from a corner , or after a corner but could n't make their possession tell . |
| 11 | It came actually on the thing . |
| 12 | At times she seemed actually demented . |
| 13 | While the Bush camp exposed Clinton 's sexual peccadilloes in the hope of lowering his public esteem , the revelations seemed actually to increase his sex appeal rating among women voters . |
| 14 | The banks were not at all keen to lend to somebody who seemed actually to need money . |
| 15 | Her smile was luxurious , and as her eyes did briefly meet Alice 's , she seemed actually to be tantalising and teasing . |
| 16 | Apart from the constraints of work life , many of the affluent workers studied actually appeared to prefer their home-centred lives . |
| 17 | And I was scouting around vaguely aware that , in fact , I 'd actually located it . |
| 18 | So here was this extremely awkward young man who 'd actually ploughed , had worked with horses , owned 40 acres and was anxious to write . |
| 19 | It 's not that Malcolm was a father-figure to us — as some have said — he was more like an elder brother who 'd actually been out there in the world and done it so he had the confidence and experience . |
| 20 | Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’ |
| 21 | Not that I 'd actually had nightmares about that . |
| 22 | I remembered : he 'd actually volunteered , invited me to come with him . |
| 23 | And so I got more and more involved with the electronics thing , and stopped playing in groups completely in 1980 , having started work in the design section of various electronics companies like Pignose , Oberheim and BC Rich , who I 'd actually started with in ‘ 77 , then Fender during ‘ 81 and ‘ 82 . ’ |
| 24 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 25 | Lush , however , are in a celebratory mood — we were the only band to be paid and boasted all night that we 'd actually headlined Lollapalooza . |
| 26 | But I mean he was very interested and when I said that we 'd actually done a recycling directory and that I was thinking |
| 27 | Guy Thomas , who 'd actually gone to RADA , gave me a book on breathing . |
| 28 | Er for example all of us in this room , if we went to one destination , we 'd probably all come away with a different combination of things that we 'd actually got from it . |
| 29 | Preston , who did n't , sometimes wondered if there was more to it than that and he 'd actually been conceived there , in the waiting room of some remote platform or in the empty carriage of some forgotten train . |
| 30 | And you 'd actually spotted it already which I thought was brilliant except we do need to have the |