Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] n't actually [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does n't accept that and she says she does n't actually talk . |
| 2 | She does n't actually eat anything that 's actually bad for her . |
| 3 | The community psychiatric nurse comes occasionally — I never know when — and she sympathizes ; nice girl but she does n't actually do anything useful . |
| 4 | ‘ She does n't actually say anything against you , ’ she explained . |
| 5 | It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does . |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes he does n't actually talk , ’ she had explained to David Quest soon after they met , which was at the wedding of Kate Molland and James Salperton . |
| 7 | He does n't actually realise that , at this point , the beautiful Estella is Miss Havisham 's tool . |
| 8 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 9 | So he does n't actually go out and do |
| 10 | He does n't actually use the words but his philosophy is clearly that the New Zealand sojourn may have been the darkest hour but that the darkest hours comes before the dawning of a new day . |
| 11 | He does n't actually have a record . |
| 12 | But with a constant round of hotel openings — Hilton has opened 25 properties in the past three years and has 15 in development — he does n't actually get a lot of time behind the desk . |
| 13 | I 'm sure he just heats it , I 'm sure he does n't actually boil it . |
| 14 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 15 | He does n't actually discuss the body as individuality . |
| 16 | He 's Mr Nice Guy , you see , he talks about going in when you have something nice and positive to promote and you think he does n't actually read The Sun . |
| 17 | he does n't actually say , well he does say the odd word if you listen carefully , of his own |
| 18 | It tends to be the case that when a task is identified as being reactive you can usually delegate it down , because it 's very , it 's a monotonous , everyday task , it does n't actually move the department forward . |
| 19 | I ca n't it does n't actually tell me how many days it is . |
| 20 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 21 | it does n't actually extend to having all those numbers off the top of my head . |
| 22 | Sometimes string makers print the tension of their strings on the packets , but it does n't actually mean that much . |
| 23 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 24 | It does n't actually mean necessarily erm how you behave . |
| 25 | Wonderful but it does n't actually mean anything . |
| 26 | but it does n't actually change British policy , or alter the fact that sanctions are going to be maintained against Saddam . |
| 27 | It does n't actually stop the light it does n't No . |
| 28 | Unfortunately most people have no idea that they have high blood pressure because it does n't actually feel any different . |
| 29 | Well it does n't actually make less people depressed that its predecessors , the great thing about it is is that it only only one quarter of the people who take it get side effects . |
| 30 | Well it it tells you quite a lot , but it does n't actually mention that bit . |