Example sentences of "actually [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added salt in the wound is that one of the books in the list that follows is taken from the collection which was around Gladstone as he spoke , and that another is one actually given to a library by his trustees . |
| 2 | Sometimes I used actually to go to a church in my religion , not to one peopled by a clergyman , choir boys , bald old men , and ladies with feathers in their hats , but to an empty church . |
| 3 | I it it 's oh no , we do n't want war , we 're all against war , but nobody is prepared to bother actually to go to a meeting or , or pay a small subscription and , and then you w you could of had a very strong United Nations now the same as after the first world war , but it 's the people that did n't do it . |
| 4 | However , no new phyla have appeared since the Cambrian period , some 500 million years ago , hinting , as Gordon Rattray Taylor once pointed out , that perhaps evolution has actually come to a halt . |
| 5 | There were letters from the boy here in his closet , no more than a week old , cold-blooded enough in their analysis of the military situation since Grey 's loss , and ruthless enough in their acceptance of the necessity to deal in extremes in the last resort , but still arguing the advantage of restraint , even daring to suggest that Lord Grey 's capture made no substantial alteration in the case for negotiation , since he was the original party to the complaint which had never actually come to a judgment under law . |
| 6 | But unfortunately , when I did an interview with you , it is possible that you might actually refer to an article in the Yellow Pages . |
| 7 | How many reviewers or ( horrid word ) critics actually listen to a recording from this point of view ? |
| 8 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 9 | It actually amounts to an increase of ten p in each |
| 10 | Statistics show that only 1 in 1000 samples actually leads to a transplant . |
| 11 | These examples , and many others like them , make it necessary for us to ensure that whatever reward we are offering a child actually leads to an increase in his desirable behaviour and whatever punishers we are offering actually lead to weakening of an undesirable behaviour . |
| 12 | It is questionable , however , whether the provisions actually add to a victim 's opportunity for compensation and it has been argued that the procedure differs little from that required for any civil action except that the funds are preserved . |
| 13 | What no one told the audience was that although the band 's instruments were apparently all wired up for sound , Shakatak was actually miming to a tape it had recorded in a Shepperton studio the night before . |
| 14 | yeah — i talk to him the next time i see him ; - ) ( joke ! — well i stayed at the same hotel as the norw. players before our game against england and actually talked to a couple of players … the next time i will have a chat with leeds-fan rekdal ; - ) i will however forward your wishes of luck if/when i write to the supporters club . |
| 15 | When she glanced at him , the hard mouth had actually softened to a smile but he was smiling to himself , thinking his own private thoughts , and Maggie bit into her soft lip , doing some rapid thinking of her own . |
| 16 | And then there are the things you get when you actually go to a destination . |
| 17 | During her time at Brentwoods , although she had never actually gone to a cinema with another man , she had often entertained or been entertained by members of the opposite sex , usually at lunchtime , occasions which she had afterwards described in detail to Brian , much to his amusement . |
| 18 | Here is a case where digitisation , which has so much to offer the historian , could actually lead to a deterioration in the nature of the source material available . |
| 19 | No , if you actually , you know , if you have a little protectionism , it does actually lead to an increase in trade , but I do n't know how that works . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
| 25 | I 'm not actually talking to a teenager though I can be talking to anyone . |
| 26 | There are around three million players in Britain , but only 10 per cent of these are actually affiliated to a club and around 10 per cent of the club members are actually rated . |
| 27 | Erm th the general idea is that I 'm actually responding to a request from last years ' student group so that the previous lecturer did pass on to me that the student group had been unhappy that there were too many texts referred to as they could n't necessarily get them from the library and they could n't afford to buy more than one text . |
| 28 | The Chelt 's course has been diverted in this area and consequently , it no longer actually flows to a mill which , like the majority of the mills on the lower section of the Chelt , is of brick and slate construction . |
| 29 | The Company actually works to a dose restriction level of 20 mSv , which is well below the legal limit of 50 mSv . |