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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actually he began" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to clarify or emphasize the start of an action or event, often in contrast to a previous statement or assumption.
Example: "Many thought the project was delayed, but actually he began working on it weeks ago."
Alternatives: "in fact he started" or "truthfully he commenced".
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As you know, a great reader of Inferno, and actually he began his career as a commentator of Dante, was Galileo, the scientist.
"I think it's something to do with the Dumbarton Rock actually," he began, slowly.
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Didn't everybody like Manet? "Actually, I — " he began brutally, and then I thought I saw his wife, across the table, shoot him a "Don't start!" look, and he shrugged.
And at one book signing, he said, a reader asked him if he knew about the "Star Trek" episode in which Actually, when he began the book he was thinking more of Bob Dylan.
Didn't everybody like Manet? "Actually, I—" he began brutally, and then I thought I saw his wife, across the table, shoot him a "Don't start!" look, and he shrugged.
When I informed him that I was actually the author, he began casually messaging me, offering to "buy me things".
Tortured and torqued figures, wailing, screaming, headless, chinless, from world and his personal history, portrayed under attack for being gay (which was actually illegal when he began to emerge as a painter) or being political or just being different.
Actually, he had begun to show his age by that time (1963); it was obvious that he was being lighted very carefully and kept in three-quarter shots, and that his face was rounder and a little puffy.
So when he began actually reading at 2, I was delighted: what endless hours of joy awaited him!
When economists criticized Reagan's rhetorical upgrading of what actually was a recession, he began telling audiences: "I'm told I can't use the word depression.
Heck, his career actually predates Interpublic; when he began at McCann-Erickson in New York in 1948, Interpublic was 13 years from being incorporated.
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