Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] n't actually [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |
| 2 | I 'm always worried when we get to item twenty-eight at this time of the year , and somebody rushes through and does n't actually say anything about this . |
| 3 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 4 | she , she used to go on about it and all this and I , I sort of fell out with her at one time , but did n't actually speak to her about it |
| 5 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 6 | I demonstrated the knitting of the ‘ sandwich ’ neckline but did n't actually sew it to the garment in class . |
| 7 | Sometimes a mass of viscous lava gets intruded near the surface , but does n't actually manage to break through ; instead it forces up the surface of the ground on top , forming a considerable hill where there was no hill before . |
| 8 | I think they thought , who is this bloke that keeps turning up for practices but does n't actually do anything and has never heard of the Who ! ’ |
| 9 | There seems little reason why Windows NT should fare much better : there is no unarguable reason why the average MS-DOS user that has Windows 3.0 but does n't actually use it much , should decide to upgrade to Windows NT any time soon . |