adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
really/actually exist
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Do you think ghosts really exist?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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do
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Which one actually did the job once rested on speculation.
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Often, it happens because good ideas bubble up from employees who actually do the work and deal with the customers.
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I'd paint like a zoologist, catching the animals doing things they actually do.
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He forces the eye into a double take: did that man actually do that just now?
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You do an estimate, and then it might cost a little bit more when you actually do the job.
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What he actually does , no one can really define.
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We actually did some batches with bad dirt.
exist
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This has nothing to do with reference to any particular dog, or even whether dogs actually exist at all.
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Does such a thing actually exist ?
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Spinnys examine the job opportunities that actually exist and the benefits they have to offer.
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In the first place, Handy attributes more permanence to the professional core than actually exists .
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The car with those number plates actually exists .
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The approach to development is dictated by paperwork requirements as opposed to the needs and opportunities which actually exist .
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The hierarchy which actually exists bears little resemblance to the way in which the thing actually works.
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In Brouwerian logic, one can not deduce from the falsity of the non-existence of some object that the object actually exists !
get
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Secondly, fewer players will actually get involved in the rucks and mauls.
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Washington, is the kind of place that can actually get you excited about pottery.
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Because she has already got £70 of her own money, she will actually get £42.55 income support.
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At a couple of points that year, the project actually got axed, and Raskin had to beg more indulgence.
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He actually got the adrenalin going, forced the pendulum which had almost stopped to swing again.
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In fact, a Longevity magazine survey finds some things actually get better with age.
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As a result, the people whose financial position makes it easiest to pay bills actually get the lowest-cost credit.
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Then I actually got a job using the law.
go
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There was a rather pleasant man, called Chaudhry, who showed worrying signs of having actually gone to Oxford.
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Then they roused themselves, surprised that some one was actually going to use the microphone.
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For most Atlantans, actually going to the Olympic Games is out of the question.
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If memory serves, we actually went into the hall and flipped a coin.
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Has anyone ever actually gone over there and had a look at them?
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How does the value actually go up or down?
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Are we actually going to learn anything from this recent disastrous period?
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Two more sections, Trondur said, had broken free in the night and actually gone adrift.
happen
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This, surely, was what had actually happened to Adam Verne-Smith.
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Like most mythic events, the Six-Day War actually happened , but not quite the way people remember it.
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If you are curious about the bombardier beetle, by the way, what actually happens is as follows.
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It was an anxiety so consuming that it overshadowed what actually happened once the war came.
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They couldn't believe it was all real - that the nightmare was actually happening to them.
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What is actually happening is that the United States is being isolated, which is not the same thing.
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What people are reporting is not what is actually happening .
make
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The prisoners were actually making complete items of furniture, doors, window frames, pottery and jewellery.
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For without such a team, it will be hard-if not impossible-to actually make any money.
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You must include all payments actually made in those eight calendar weeks.
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Most class analysts do not explain in detail how policy decisions are actually made .
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In 1959 Navarro Rubio had not only not immediately fallen under suspicion of disloyalty, but had actually made Franco back down.
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For now though, all that matters is they got it done, a deal that for both sides actually makes sense.
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Pedagogy in this case actually makes the learning task more difficult.
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But the company that had actually made and sold the flag was a one-man operation with no resources.
mean
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The operation-the abortion-would actually mean killing my child, my new son or daughter.
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But the comprehension of what that actually meant was slim.
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What it would actually mean is lives that would be-as Hobbes put it-nasty, brutish and short.
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Less clear is what the change actually means .
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If anything, the more people talk, the less it actually means .
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This time he may actually mean it.
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What is actually meant by intention is more problematic, and will be approached in stages.
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The managers did come to see that acquiring managerial competence actually meant sacrificing some of their technical competence.
see
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To actually see crabs scuttling across the floor and live sponges and even real live fish was astonishing.
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They looked at the sketch and asked her if she had actually seen the man reach for her purse.
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Sometimes I thought they could actually see these people, as they talked.
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He had no idea what he would do when he actually saw Tony, but he knew he had to confront him.
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You can't actually see the house quite.
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You could actually see what was going on.
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We can follow gastrulation in the early development of the sea-urchin and actually see the gut forming.
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None actually saw the entry of the bolide, but all saw the flash of the explosion.
use
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However, problems arise when the author describes how to actually use the gear.
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Gore actually used a card issued by the Clinton-Gore campaign, she said.
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You could actually use purple, alizarin crimson, you see incredibly pallid complexions with red bits.
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The extent to which cells actually use such mechanisms is still being investigated.
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Hearers actually use this unclarity as a clue to the speaker's intentions.
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Having actually used the booklet reinforces this positive attitude.
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It is a genuine two-plus-two, with a set of rear seats you can actually use .
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This saves a bit of space and avoids giving a whole profile where only one characteristic is actually used .
want
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One thing you might have noticed, though, is that there is only Heather who actually wants to sit next to Gowie.
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Jeff Groscost actually wanted the Legislature to determine whether a species was truly endangered before the state enforced federal protections.
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The truth is that neither applicant actually wants to issue Switch cards, though Barclays says it is prepared to consider it.
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We are willing to eat garbage for lunch because the larder is always empty of foods we actually want .
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But what users actually want are reliable electricity services.
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Also, it dawned on me, I actually wanted to drive.
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It was a delicious fantasy and whatever Ocker actually wanted him for would not spoil it.
work
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None of these more ambitious weapons actually work very well and they are sensibly avoided by the military.
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Ironically, corporate downsizing may actually work to your advantage.
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How do the units actually work ?
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And that romantic idea had to sustain me through the realities of actually working on the 128K Mac....
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Of course it doesn't actually work .
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If you actually worked for Jobs, he took time out from preaching the Mac gospel to meddle in your life.
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You never know, it may actually work better than you think.
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Many actually work in community service projects, which most journalists only write about.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Actually , that was the best part of the whole trip.
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Did he actually hit you or just threaten you?
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He may look 30, but he's actually 45.
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I don't actually remember it all that well.
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It turns out that one of the children I thought was a girl was actually a boy.
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Unemployment has actually fallen for the past two months.
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Well, actually , you still owe me $200.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But don't forget that you only pay interest on the amount you actually borrow.
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Consequently these areas are the first to exhibit extra fat and the last to actually reduce.
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Of these, only four were actually put on trial by the army, and three were acquitted by military judges.
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The little-known sea wasp, in spite of its name, is actually a jellyfish.
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The Washington summit actually eliminated major causes of tension, and promised to inaugurate a new world structure.
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What actually happened eight thousand to ten thousand years ago to end the hunter-gatherer chapter in human history?
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Whether they are actually his desires, or those of the devil, must remain speculation.