Example sentences of "[verb] not actually [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not actually suggest communication between continents with the aid of geostationary satellites , but if he was taken now to a satellite ground-station he would not be numbed with astonishment . |
| 2 | Women at the time did n't yet have the vote , and they made arguments about women being more dependent people , less able to fight for themselves , more in need of the protection of the state , which in some cases did not actually distinguish women from men in the same industries . |
| 3 | I discovered that we do not actually hurt people , they allow themselves to be hurt . |
| 4 | Sometimes it is necessary to include intermediate nodes , which do not actually represent records , but are included to maintain the correct hierarchical structure , so that they will be processed in the required order . |
| 5 | It should be established at the outset that many large blue-chip companies do not actually use search at all . |
| 6 | These steps are needed but do not actually take advantage of the skills of bilingual pupils . |
| 7 | Nearly all these individuals are fully competent native speakers of British English , so they do not actually require Creole for strictly communicative purposes ; for them , Creole fulfils a number of other roles mostly related to its symbolic significance as a marker of black identity . |
| 8 | I think that we actually just had time to talk through these and you did n't actually make notes . |
| 9 | I did n't actually visit Mum for very long but old Mrs McSporran told me all the news of the Senior Citizens and our deacon gave me a few tips about growing rhubarb . |
| 10 | The Labour Party says the firm continued trading without insuring holidaymakers ' money , because Mr Heseltine told them they did n't actually NEED insurance . |
| 11 | I did n't actually like Paula very much — she flaunted her wealth as though it was marked with a price tag — but I did n't actively dislike her . |
| 12 | Yeah , oh what , I did n't actually say fuck that , I know I 've got to go and get your present you know . |
| 13 | Aldrich did n't actually see Stratton — on the train , did he ? ’ |
| 14 | So we talked to him but erm we did n't actually see Mrs until about a quarter to eleven . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't actually see Newley . |
| 16 | So , if you 've got a mouse you could actually help speed up a lot of this editing but , I said , I 've not written in the mouse commands into this schedule because we did n't actually have mice on all work stations when this was written . |
| 17 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 18 | And then there was the attempt not to issue a questionnaire to every household but to reserve the questionnaires in the Town Hall for four week days Saturdays to will honour the people who did n't actually have Friday who were at home perhaps walk in to the City Centre you might be able to pick one of these up and then there was the problem distrib in distributing the questionnaire because despite of the assurance given to the consultants they were nevertheless distributed amongst the numerous St Albans and believe you me even those likely people who did go to the press do sometimes for every that we having suddenly fully congressed to see whether perhaps there might be a consultation questionnaire lurking within it . |
| 19 | Until well into the eighteen forties , they did n't actually buy dresses , they bought lengths of cloth and had them made up , either by a member of the household — a servant perhaps , or more often by a dressmaker , either a couturier or the local dressmaker . |
| 20 | Er y you do n't actually leave go of the cord straight away . |
| 21 | Yet many people do n't actually want desktop publishing in the Macintosh sense , they want better quality word processors which can integrate text and graphics . |
| 22 | And erm so we the the way we work it out ourselves , is that we do n't actually pay people 's fuel bills . |
| 23 | They do n't actually make customers queue outside in chilly Mayfair , but the greeting system obliges everyone who lacks star quality to stand , cap in hand , under the supercilious gaze of a giggle of girls who fiddle ineffectually with placement lists on a trolley . |
| 24 | They do n't actually care tuppence about me ! ’ |
| 25 | and they do n't actually do collections , they do n't actually do , do any production . |
| 26 | I do n't actually play football any more , you see . |
| 27 | As I somewhat impatiently explained , we do n't actually teach English . |
| 28 | They do n't actually remove pollutants ; they cause the particles to settle on walls , floors , table tops and fabrics . |
| 29 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 30 | But everything else about the electoral coverage left me cold because it had such a restricted view of politics as a game with rules that do n't actually touch people . |