Example sentences of "actually [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not difficult to form a physical picture of what is actually happening at a re-entrant such as a crack , especially if we consider the matter upon a molecular scale . |
| 2 | Leonard was actually looking in a shop window when he first saw them , noticing Marianne — naturally — first ! |
| 3 | The purpose is to check that you are not just having a prolonged holiday but are actually living as a resident abroad . |
| 4 | He spent some time actually living as a boarder in houses in the areas that he was studying , and making detailed studies of particular families . |
| 5 | And I mean , they 're actually living on a pittance as it is ! |
| 6 | Holiday memories of dinner for two complete with bottle of wine for the princely sum of a fiver are , alas , no guide to the cost of actually living in a country — especially if the holiday in question took place five years ago or more . |
| 7 | Directly into a drain , so we never s that 's why we did n't see it , because the water was actually pouring down a drain , so of course we did n't see the water lolling up the waterlogged ground , otherwise we 'd have spotted it earlier . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The method employed may be a postal questionnaire sent out to hundreds , or even thousands , of possible respondents — in which case the ‘ going out ’ is being done rather at one step removed — but in this case the data are actually coming from a sample of people , even though no personal contact is made . |
| 10 | Are we talking here about the principle of major exceptions or are we actually talking about a site . |
| 11 | I 'm not actually talking to a teenager though I can be talking to anyone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's not clear whether he 's actually thinking about a fox or seeing a fox or so , yes . |
| 14 | This situation applies to everyone actually digging on a site , so as there may be anything between one and 100 people all constantly taking decisions in this way , there exists a large potential for error . |