Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] n't actually [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wrote a lot about gay politics during the seventies , including a book on it , but when I look back on it , I do n't actually talk about sex at all . |
| 2 | I do n't actually think either of us has an image of the other — or ourselves — that 's quite true . |
| 3 | ’ I do n't actually think that anybody needs to steal . |
| 4 | This time we 'll need to go as far away from humans as possible , and I do n't actually think anywhere is far enough . |
| 5 | I do n't actually think that a Vice Presidency is somehow , should rule you out of organization |
| 6 | but erm I do n't actually think that there was revolution in process going if there was , if you know , a hu a huge increase in |
| 7 | From my position as the chair of a governing body of a primary school , I do n't actually think it 's given us very much more flexibility in how we run that school or how that school is operated , and I do n't really and I find it very difficult to see the benefits of us becoming suddenly having erm the responsibility of the funding dumped on us , and therefore the responsibility of any cuts from from erm Local Authorities . |
| 8 | I do n't actually think that , that , that it 's quite so clear cut , I think that there 's still a bit of persuading that , that we have to do to persuade people that it is the right thing . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't actually care where she is , ’ said Camille , beginning to lose her fragile temper , ‘ but Mum does , or at least she says she does — she cares about everyone , do n't you , Mum ? |
| 10 | ‘ Look , ’ said he , ‘ I do n't know what your problem is and in all candour , I do n't actually care . |
| 11 | Then he grins : ‘ No , I do n't actually do that . |
| 12 | Well I 've got that written down as the beginning of what goes in but e , I do n't actually do those the departments do them . |
| 13 | and yet I 've been , in theory I do n't actually manage them . |
| 14 | I take up points of view I do n't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt . |
| 15 | I do n't actually believe that that depression is normal , I believe that we can overcome depression , and I think there is some creative things that we can do out of a depression people can become stronger , they can tap into their resources inside with support and help , so I can believe it 's a positive experience . |
| 16 | I mean I am constantly being confronted with students who do things that I do n't actually understand , and they 're my own students , and actually that 's quite nice , I like that . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't actually recall anyone putting you in charge … ’ |
| 18 | too closely I do n't actually recall seeing in the er in the actual wo consultation documents erm funding is not one of the issues being addressed by the merger with . |
| 19 | I do n't actually say that I view his piano playing as if he 's a miniature mixture of Oscar Peterson , Oscar Borge , Chico Marx , Russ Conway and Les Dawson , because I 've only just thought of that . |
| 20 | I do n't actually dwell on the dangers and worry about them , although I am very conscious of them . |
| 21 | My hair is really short so I do n't actually have to style it but it did feel better and I would use this conditioner again . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't actually have to live there while I 'm writing it . ’ |
| 23 | Well staggeringly enough I do n't actually have one this week because the only things I have to report are covered at in under energy conservation bill . |
| 24 | Well I do n't actually have his er telephone number . |
| 25 | So that when we have the thing that he calls an annual review and I call a pain in the neck , I do n't actually have to put in very much work to come up with the fact that no , I 'm not going to give him a salary increase , erm , because I have his , his performance , you know , already researched throughout the year . |
| 26 | So sex and the capacity to evolve rapidly is a property of the species , not of an individual erm and consequently once can visualize erm species selection being responsible for it 's evolution , so I do n't actually have much taste for species selection . |
| 27 | Being as the car 's going on Monday I do n't actually need the gemini er alarm . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't actually live here at all , ’ I answered honestly . |
| 29 | But I do n't actually work here . ’ |
| 30 | It 's increasingly difficult for the voluntary sector to make provision of this kind , to offer those opportunities without proper partnership with the state , so I do n't actually accept if you 're posing an alternative and saying that it 's either or , I do n't think that 's correct . |