Example sentences of "actually did " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Euro-elections of June 1989 they polled disastrously , and actually did much worse than the new and untried Green Party concerned with environmental issues . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , Orton 's anarchic irresponsibility was thought by some to go too far , not just in what he actually did , but in the refusal in his work to confront established morality with an earnest moral alternative . |
| 3 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 4 | He 'd walk me home from school and it 's often said that he carried my ballet shoes , which sounds kind of romantic , but he actually did sometimes , if I was carrying a whole load of things . |
| 5 | She actually did a lot of good things — she pulled a lot of things together and did a lot of things for David . |
| 6 | And Fifties gentlemen actually did prefer blondes . |
| 7 | When Miller appeared before the UnAmerican Activities Committee in 1956 , he actually did what Lillian Hellman had proposed . |
| 8 | You actually did it . |
| 9 | Because what she thought she felt was what she actually did feel and she said it , loud and clear and everyone else could go and fuck themselves . |
| 10 | Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did . |
| 11 | Despite a boom in interest in the early '80s , with one hundred and fifty authorities considering contracting out in the years 1982/83 , only thirty-seven actually did so . |
| 12 | Since ownership passed to the legatee without performance having taken place , it was much harder to see that he actually did do with the legacy what the testator had intended . |
| 13 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 14 | Brian Bertram , working with David Bygott and Jeannette Hanby of the University of Cambridge , showed that males actually did increase their lifetime fitness by cooperating with one another ( Nature , vol |
| 15 | It was the business of the bishop to preach peace — and some of them actually did so ; yet a growing spirit of political independence , sometimes accompanying a furious anticlerical urge , limited the power of the bishop once the city had felt and tested its freedom . |
| 16 | Your reply should therefore include not just what you actually did but any special skills you were able to bring to the job and any particular equipment you have been trained to use . |
| 17 | ‘ I had the hit record , the duet with Sarah , but I actually did all the songs with the orchestra , pretty well the whole Phantom role . |
| 18 | Among the unemployed , Labour actually did less well than in 1987 . |
| 19 | Its share of votes in social groups AB rose from 14 to 20 per cent on 1987 ; among the unemployed it actually did worse . |
| 20 | He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home . |
| 21 | However , for this to act as an effective discipline , the market must believe that the government would not rescue the firm if bankruptcy actually did occur . |
| 22 | With a comprehension not entirely formed , she knew what the expression ‘ having an affair ’ meant , though the details of what her mother and Mr Stacey actually did together were hazy . |
| 23 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |
| 24 | As he stared at her he actually did feel as if he were in short pants , and he could n't find words to answer her . |
| 25 | Do you know , I actually did a job in Belfast and I put a spade through a six-inch trunk cable and blacked out Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | And when they banned me from playing cricket for a month , they actually did me a favour . |
| 27 | ( Stuart Maconie , 6/4/91 who actually did award the Single Of The Week plaudit ) |
| 28 | Deaf people also imagined hearing people to hold more negative attitudes than they actually did . |
| 29 | Some 51.2% of those questioned at the end of 1991 said that they planned to buy more hardware but only 40.3% actually did . |
| 30 | But it has been tried : Birmingham City Council ran billboard advertisements a few years ago imaginatively showing what the SSD actually did , how it positively affected old people , young people , and everyone in between . |