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The phrase 'was actually sleeping' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a situation in which someone was assumed to be doing one thing, but was actually doing something else. For example, "The teacher assumed the boy was misbehaving, but he was actually sleeping."
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I was actually sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor for the first two weeks.
"I didn't want anyone to think I was actually sleeping there, so I just worked the whole time.
Mickos' company was actually sleeping with OpenStack's main enemy, AWS.
"I was actually sleeping in, even past 8 30 a.m.," he said when reached by phone in Atlanta.
"I was actually sleeping on the train and all of a sudden..
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The idea is to trick the body into believing it has passed a night like any other — that your unsatisfying little nap was actually sleep and now you are rested and deserving of an omelette.
My cat is actually sleeping next to me right now.
His beloved protégé has found a new benefactor (one he is actually sleeping with, to boot).
So what if I were to say that you are actually sleeping far better than you think?
What these boomers may not realize is that their memory and sleep impairments are probably connected, and that if they worked at increasing their sleep efficiency — the proportion of each night that they're actually sleeping — they'd also improve their ability to store and retrieve memories.
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