Example sentences of "actually see [pron] " in BNC.

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1 One possibility is that they do actually see themselves as superior — as opposed to seeing us as inferior or helpless .
2 The woods and walks surrounding the old Sussex manor house are peopled by children who died young ; the visitor , who is the narrator , is aware of them , but can not actually see them ; his hostess , who is vividly aware of the children 's presence , is blind .
3 TIP : If your fish have hiding places you will actually see them better !
4 And then erm one afternoon we went in a dug out canoe erm to look for crocodiles and we did actually see them on the banks of the river as we were going down in our canoe , so that was quite exciting .
5 And you could actually see them at it , the grease monkeys , with hammers and spanners , about their long chore of patient wreckage .
6 We can actually see them going on , from year to year .
7 to actually see them on your neck .
8 In two days ' time , she thought , she would actually see him .
9 ‘ But I did n't actually see him myself on that particular evening .
10 Any feelings of shyness Fabia might have endured the following morning at the thought of seeing Ven again were shortlived when she did actually see him .
11 Yeah I know , I think it 's the glasses he can actually see me now or something
12 Nigel could n't actually see what the doctor was writing on the other side of his desk , but he could guess .
13 As I fiddled frantically with buttons that would n't depress and a monopod that would n't telescope downwards so I could actually see what professional fingers find in the dark , I became aware of the incredulous stare of a Japanese with an even bigger lens than mine .
14 This is because , although we go through the movements of looking , we do not actually see what is there .
15 The commanders can not actually see what Lord Raglan intends to refer to .
16 I think as far as market is concerned we have sort of taken certain steps as far as the marketing is I mean the computerisation of ticket system gives us a much greater insight on marketing now cos you can actually see what people come to see and we can by the ticket that 's actually sold and we can actually target people direct .
17 Then she could actually see what was going on in the family , which was that her mother was servicing her father , who just looked out of the window most of the time , psychically speaking , while the siblings got on with their rivalry .
18 Yeah yeah now I can actually see what you look like .
19 And erm these , they had these different routines , they had one when they were swimming and this one was in the shower , could n't actually see what he was doing , and they had
20 No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that .
21 Make sure that , sure they 're good quality photographs , normally black and white , sharp , appropriate and so forth , and make sure that you 've got sufficient details associated with it , often a good way of doing it is by having a , something typed on a slip of paper which is just very slightly stuck to the , to the back so the editor can actually see what the thing is and can take it off if he needs to when the picture is actually being reproduced .
22 How many girls or young women , with or without eating disorders , do actually see their periods in this light ?
23 Well , ’ Lucinda shrugged , ‘ they say you 're never alone in the blackout , even though you ca n't actually see anyone . ’
24 I did n't actually see anyone touch their forelock , but from the moment when Mrs Field accompanied the entry of the turkey with blasts of a hunting horn , to shots of Hannah primly seated , timidly moving one foot to the music , I knew this was a world far removed , not only in distance but in time , from the pace of urban life in which I move . ’
25 ‘ Everyone 's so paranoid in the theatre these days it 's impossible to actually see anyone there .
26 Some people see very clearly and are able to describe actual images ; others do not actually see anything at all but know what is going on and are able to relate to it .
27 So everybody have document and hit shift F ten and they 're on page nine now if we go , hold down the alt key and type B and you 'll just see er a shimmer go down the screen an then you do n't actually see anything , but if you alt U , everything appears underlined alt K converts everything into small capitals alt S , strikes through everything and alt I italicizes all the words .
28 When you come right down to it , I did n't actually see anything unpleasant .
29 I look looked through it , could n't actually see anything obviously wrong with it .
30 She could hardly believe it : she could actually see herself , safe on a calm , sunny stretch of water , an exhausted but undefeated survivor !
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