Example sentences of "[was/were] actually [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sad fact is that although the ostensible reason for the dolphin kills was that dolphins were stealing and eating the commercial fish species , examination of their stomach contents showed that only the false killer whales were actually feeding on yellowtail . |
| 2 | And so if people had less money in their pockets and they were losing their jobs , what factors can explain why more and more people were actually going on holiday abroad ? |
| 3 | ‘ I was actually thinking about suicide , ’ he confessed to Barbara . |
| 4 | Now I was concerned that nobody although they were looking at the water , they were looking at the borehole , they were looking at the electric , nobody was actually looking at production up there . |
| 5 | Emerging from the shower ten minutes later , skin glowing and towelling her damp hair , she was galled to discover that she was no longer tired and , worse , that her stomach was actually rumbling with hunger . |
| 6 | The conceptual line between the systems world and the real world was crossed at a later stage when the information model was used to explore what was actually happening in practice . |
| 7 | The next step was to compare the conceptual model with what was actually happening in practice , a process similar to that described in Chapter 9 , where the existing situation is considered in light of a proposed new system . |