Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] actually [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 2 | Misunderstandings about the nature of the recordings contributed to some confusion in the early 1960s about whether the eye movements of dreaming sleep did or did not actually follow the action of the dream . |
| 3 | He did not actually touch the substance , but , in the absence of adequate safety measures , he was likely to inhale microparticles . |
| 4 | What was interesting in this study was that subjects ' eye movements showed that they looked longer and more frequently at syntactic errors even when they did not actually report the errors . |
| 5 | They do not actually reflect the true nature of what Conservatives want . ’ |
| 6 | This is an important medium in the school , since a fair proportion of teachers do not actually teach the pupils they hear talked about . |
| 7 | ‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction . |
| 8 | As they do not actually devour the tissue but merely pierce through the skin to get at the sap inside , the problem of making contact can become a little more difficult . |
| 9 | If we do not actually receive the money within this period , our computer will automatically cancel your reservation and we can not be held responsible if that holiday is subsequently not available . |
| 10 | Never mind that Prime Ministers do not actually own the Elgin marbles . |
| 11 | ( 8 ) This enquiry refers to the rights of those who do not actually own the property but who may , for example , occupy it . |
| 12 | Do not actually provide the protection that people think . |
| 13 | Although the original band name was ostensibly chosen to represent the legendary guitarist/founder 's democratic intentions , ‘ Peter Green 's Fleetwood Mac ’ did n't actually contain the ‘ Mac ’ part in its line-up for that famous debut gig at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival in August , 1967 … |
| 14 | You left out the referrals and you did n't actually arrange the date of the second appointment |
| 15 | Cawthorne 's file from Prior , Keen , Baldwin did n't actually mention the Exhilarator , it was mostly financial stuff about his holdings and interests in the City . |
| 16 | Bradshaw thought the hullabaloo was unjustified : ‘ After all , ’ he grumbled , ‘ he did n't actually ride the damn thing . ’ |
| 17 | He did n't actually say the words , but they were implicit in the final look he gave her before disappearing down the companionway . |
| 18 | I have to say that I hope Mr in fact did n't actually write the words of the motion it looks to me and those members of the education committee will know what I mean like another version of the Docklands back garden fudge . |
| 19 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 20 | Well , I did n't actually spend the night at home . ’ |
| 21 | The text was ‘ illustrated ’ with crude black and white pictures , the parser was very basic , and accepted only one or two word ‘ phrases ’ , and the perspective was from the ‘ first person ’ ie you did n't actually see the character you controlled . |
| 22 | ‘ It is an elevated green , so I did n't actually see the ball go down the hole , ’ he told BPXpress . |
| 23 | I see but you did n't actually get the money for them . |
| 24 | So you did n't actually buy the tyres then you were sort of an overseer |
| 25 | Just be a bit er bit , bit er wary of them in the sense that you do n't know who 's managing the fund , er because it 's their money , it 's not your money , they do n't actually invest the money from you , it 's their money they 're investing . |
| 26 | The recipes do n't actually tell the adventurers what the potions do , of course ( although an Alchemist among the adventurers is allowed an Int test with a +20 bonus to guess the general nature of the effects ) , but they are worth 150 GCs apiece to an alchemist . |
| 27 | We put we put I m I mean we do n't actually bind the report up in the er how we would do professionally . |
| 28 | do n't actually make the sort of mess that , what we call gypsies , the tinkers , when they 're |
| 29 | Because , if we do n't actually ventilate the building then , we 're not actually gon na solve the problem . |
| 30 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |