Example sentences of "[not/n't] actually [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorothy Hardisty did not actually take over from Sir Charles Stead as executive director until the outbreak of war , but by then she had already made her presence felt as an able and energetic deputy . |
| 2 | thinking about it , you 're saying the appraisal thing do n't actually link in with the tree the team . |
| 3 | So we did n't actually start off with this |
| 4 | Erm , just on that H I V thing there , is that , is n't it a bit confusing is n't it , in that we do n't actually pay out on H I V full stop , on Aids full stop , it is , it 's really the other , the other things . |
| 5 | I mean , if somebody ca n't actually go back to the person they 've harmed in a in a one to one situation , there 's no reason why they should n't be doing some other form of community service . |
| 6 | They did n't actually go in for sabotage or anything , did they ? ’ |
| 7 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 8 | If everyone who is anyone does n't actually touch down on the planet fairly often , at least their activities come to be known through Uulaa 's favourite indoor sport ( after making money ) — trading information , along with rumour and scandal . |
| 9 | Now , I must make this quite clear to you , you ca n't actually mess around with time . |