Example sentences of "actually [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During one incident a thief actually climbed through a window to pinch a cashbox and , another time , a drunk was found asleep in the office . |
| 2 | I actually arrived in a neighbour 's Mini car . |
| 3 | We saw herds of stags and although we never actually walked for a day when we did n't see anyone else , there was a week of walking when we only saw one other person for every day . |
| 4 | He had an idea that he would find himself another flat , and he actually called at a number of agencies in the Bayswater area and asked for their lists . |
| 5 | If a guy I mean I 've worked for farmers I I actually worked for a farmer once from seven o'clock in the morning till nine o'clock at night for five quid . |
| 6 | I took singing lessons , too , and I actually sang in a couple of films , but if you saw the films you 'd see why I 'm not in musicals . |
| 7 | And then when she came back and I was returned she actually went into a factory then . |
| 8 | I think he actually went for a walk with Brian . |
| 9 | Well yesterday we actually went to a school and you show them how to use with a condom demonstrator and allow them to touch the condoms , and in youth clubs you allow them to do practically anything with them , as long as they 're returned , they can blow them up , or they can |
| 10 | Well , the last time he was in , he actually went to a group of people who were determined to make their decision , were determined what their decision was . |
| 11 | Twenty years later , Antonia White 's The Sugar House actually went before a judge , when an actress called June Sylvaine took umbrage at the book 's portrayal of a bitchy , overweight trouper of that name . |
| 12 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 13 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
| 14 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 15 | When I stayed overnight at my nan 's , which I often did , I actually slept in a room next to where the old monastery used to be . |
| 16 | Can I reiterate what he he actually said in a meeting with Calum er Carole Degucht er last year er he said I do y the honourable , my honourable friend said I do not see that uniformity means adopting a system of proportional representation and I 've yet to see a good case as to the merits of different states adopting the same procedure . |