Example sentences of "never actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never actually says this in his publications , rather the reverse , but he offers a methodology that focuses away from the child . |
| 2 | No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes . |
| 3 | He had been forced to sign a co-operation agreement in order to obtain a passport , although he had never actually collaborated . |
| 4 | Torque flow means the water is sucked into a 2p-sized hole in the base of the pump housing but never actually passes through the impeller , which is set to one side of the inlet chamber . |
| 5 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 6 | Born in London , an ex-punk who started acting while at art school during a course in sculpture , Roth never actually went to drama college ( aside from one afternoon when he got pissed and snuck into RADA to see what he 's missed ) . |
| 7 | But anyway when y when you were first exploring erm the needs and Maggie came back to you and offered erm this , this policy that she wanted for her daughter , but you never actually went back and saw if there was anything else , you never came back |
| 8 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 9 | During her time at Brentwoods , although she had never actually gone to a cinema with another man , she had often entertained or been entertained by members of the opposite sex , usually at lunchtime , occasions which she had afterwards described in detail to Brian , much to his amusement . |
| 10 | NATALIE : Yeah , well , I do n't know , I 've never actually gone and asked any of them round here about any problem . |
| 11 | He 's never actually gone to harm Ricky . |
| 12 | I 've never actually flown from Heathrow , I 've been |
| 13 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 14 | Er I never actually had any part in it but I heard tales about er the rivet boy in particular , the they would er they would give him a wage equivalent to what they thought was was a was a reasonable wage for him , because of the fact that they were on piece work , he had to see that the rivets there on time . |
| 15 | Wendy said , ‘ You would n't be , because you never actually married me . |
| 16 | But assumptions , as she 'd discovered that day , could be dangerous , and Isabelle had never actually stated where she was born . |
| 17 | For much of the rest of the time we slept and cooked out , though most people never actually slept in their hammocks as the trees grew inconveniently far apart . |
| 18 | You 've known for years he was devious , and he 'd never actually fallen over himself to be nice to you , had he ? |
| 19 | He has never actually heard anybody being shrunk before . |
| 20 | ‘ I never actually heard voices , except a sort of muttering as if she was rummaging around trying to find something . |
| 21 | It is at its strongest when applied to production ; indeed , one can think of the Adornian picture of a totally administered , homogeneous , determining process as the ideal type to which the industry constantly aspires ( though , for reasons discussed above , this state is never actually reached ) . |
| 22 | You 'd never actually do anything like that . ’ |
| 23 | While Mary Tudor lived , the Protestants in Scotland had never actually given up , but as long as England as well as France and Spain was Catholic , all they could hope for was survival ; and there was no point in preferring an English alliance to a French one . |
| 24 | The problem for the State is , that while the family sent a letter in 1942 declaring its intention to reach an agreement over what should be considered inalienable heirlooms and therefore assured a permanence in the family 's headquarters of Schloss St Emmeram in Regensburg , this agreement was never actually realised . |
| 25 | Pity that , because she 'd never actually felt this overwhelming tug of attraction before … |
| 26 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 27 | And , although she never actually put it into words she had made it perfectly clear that she would put him out of business if he did n't agree to her terms . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , I 've never actually moved in . |
| 29 | ‘ Who the f— is that ? ’ tweets the Warner Brothers executive , who has clearly never actually met Al Jourgensen . |
| 30 | I never actually met him , but sometimes they would stretch out in the garden on warm days . |