Example sentences of "was actually [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much debate as to whether he was actually threatened with prison , as the document in the Vatican file reported . |
| 2 | In many ways the Crown Prince 's relationship to his stern father bears a passing resemblance to that of the Prince of Wales and King George V. Like his cousin , he was intensely bored by pomp and ceremony ; after an official visit to Konigsberg , he dispatched a typical wire to the Kaiser , reporting ‘ seventy-five speeches , four and a half hours ’ duration and the usual horrible banquet ’ On another occasion , he was actually placed under house arrest by the Kaiser for skipping a state function . |
| 3 | I was actually mugged on holiday er then years ago and I was held up with a gun and it was the most horrendous feeling |
| 4 | ‘ I was actually thinking about suicide , ’ he confessed to Barbara . |
| 5 | One Member of Parliament there was actually sent to prison for non-payment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By contrast , Lord 's was actually blessed with sunshine . |
| 9 | The concession covered any of the estate in Westmoreland , Cumberland , and Lancaster ( Lancashire ) , but there appears no evidence that any work was actually put in hand . |
| 10 | Buddeke , probably a German immigrant , was actually hired to tail Wilhelm Liebknecht , but on their American tours Liebknecht 's and Eleanor 's paths intersected . |
| 11 | I would like to point out that the event was actually organised in conjunction with Craigavon Borough Council 's Community Relations office by Network Craigavon , an umbrella organisation made up of a number of peace and reconciliation groups in the greater Craigavon area , and not by the group identified by you which is one member of the Network and has in the past , like other constituent groups in the Network , organised events . |
| 12 | It was actually lined in oak right up to the to the light room . |
| 13 | No , it 's Serumchromoglycate with it What it What 's it Now we know We know all about that cos we a lot of it in aspirin and problems with noses and things like that , but er I was n't aware that it was actually used by mouth for this . |
| 14 | THE BEST sit-com ever made actually began a year earlier , written by estranged Hancock creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson , but in '64 an episode was actually postponed on Election Day at the request of opposition leader Harold Wilson , who feared Labour voters might stay at home ( See ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This might plausibly be dismissed as ‘ Victorian stupidity ’ were it not for the tact that in Britain in 1988 a similar view was actually inscribed in law . |