Example sentences of "actually [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you actually became dependant on the tranquillizers did you or or or you simply had |
| 2 | Erm right through till eighty two when it actually got funding . |
| 3 | I mean he initially did n't wan na know and then you went on about er and came up with the idea of well I 'm very fit , the family 's fit never have any problems health wise erm the o the only thing there you , I do n't think you actually mentioned possibility of accident |
| 4 | Although Jacques retained his title of ‘ flutte du Roi ’ until his death ( it appears on the first page of his inventory , 1763 ) , this provides no clear indication of when he actually stopped performing , since musicians retained titles as property . |
| 5 | If they had done this to her possessions , what would they do if they actually came face to face with her ? |
| 6 | For 35 minutes they actually dominated possession and position and Saracens seemed in a lot of trouble . |
| 7 | ‘ There was a period of 30–40 years when people actually threw jet out , ’ says Mabel . |
| 8 | ‘ He actually paid rent . ’ |
| 9 | It was n't that he minded her presence ; and he did n't mind her company , on those occasions when he actually spent time with her . |
| 10 | But the Guinness Books Of Records actually started life as a slim pamphlet designed to stop pub squabbles . |
| 11 | Well they 're getting comfy seats and we 're star well as you can see from the last play , Wuthering Heights that erm we actually lost money on that I know it will happen but I feel that we ought to erm go along and get into a healthier position again . |
| 12 | I never actually reached puberty , in terms of periods , although I can remember feeling lumps developing in my breasts , and being momentarily shocked before realising that I was growing up . |
| 13 | This obligatory military involvement , though a burden which some clergy would willingly have evaded , was for others doubtless a proud duty or welcome excitement ; not many of those assembled actually saw battle , but their association with this medieval ‘ home guard ’ must surely have blurred the distinction between clergy and laymen , with ambiguous and some unfortunate results : more popular they may have been , but equally more vulnerable when sentiment turned , as it did , against both war and the clergy . |
| 14 | But the Travelling Workshops Experiment report went on to say that : ‘ … although the new approach was welcomed , few librarians actually took advantage of the opportunity to evaluate their user-education programmes by using the evaluation materials provided by the TWE as part of each package ’ . |
| 15 | It was said to be Mrs Thatcher 's favourite television programme — indeed , she actually took part in a rehearsal . |
| 16 | Captain Thomas went with Bonnington 's stick , but there is confusion as to whether the remaining officer , Lieutenant Bill Fraser actually took part . |
| 17 | Instead he was conscripted , and in September 1939 actually took part in the invasion of Poland . |
| 18 | You actually took German then ? |
| 19 | What happened in the relay at the European Championships bears an important relationship to some of the friction , argument and unpleasantness that occurred , mostly between Frank Dick and me , over the following two years , so it is important to record an unbiased , respected outsider 's view of what actually took place . |
| 20 | Everything happened so quickly that I have no very clear recollection of what actually took place . |
| 21 | Last Friday 's shambles , when Joyce Gould effectively re-wrote the leadership contest nomination rules to try to ensure that a leadership contest actually took place , was merely the nadir of a process that has seen the people 's party acting according to the slogan of ‘ all power to the apparatchiks ’ , and losing its soul , its sense of purpose , much of its membership — and the general election — along the way . |
| 22 | The catch was that the cost per copy assumed a much larger rate of copying than actually took place in the business . |
| 23 | ‘ every story is based on something that actually took place . |
| 24 | So many lies and half-truths have distorted what actually took place . |
| 25 | But in fact these early chapters of Genesis are historical , in that they bear witness to events which actually took place . |
| 26 | When asked about the Holocaust , Le Pen , in common with other antisemitic ideologists of the extreme right , questioned whether the mass murder of Jews during the Second World War actually took place . |
| 27 | It is an example based on an interchange that actually took place in the seventeenth century between Galileo and an Aristotelian adversary . |
| 28 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | No objection could be taken to this when the offence actually took place in public ; now , of course , it need not . |