Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] very [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I know very little about the firm or the people in it , then , to reduce my uncertainty , I will invent my own snapshots of what to expect . |
| 2 | I remember very little of the four years spent in Windsor except the arrival of a small suit sent by one of the powerful aunts for my fourth birthday . |
| 3 | I remember very little of the coronation — only two faces . |
| 4 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 5 | He went on : ‘ Although I was already a member of the Church of England before joining the Friends ’ School in 1937 , I lean very much towards the Quaker faith . |
| 6 | I felt very much on the outside . |
| 7 | These bodies My Lords are after all precepting authorities and I think it crucial that those who 've been elected by their local communities should be in a clear majority and I sympathise very much with the er proposition in this regard , set out in the Noble Lord , Lord 's Amendment number twenty-one . |
| 8 | It 's very rare that I stop in , so I see very little of the wife and kids . " |
| 9 | However , there are serious drawbacks to this approach which relies very much on the analyst 's interpretational skills and subjective judgement . |
| 10 | I enjoy the more wishy-washy concepts — I wish perhaps I 'd had the chance to do a physics and philosophy option — and it seems to me that when we do things like quantum physics nobody bothers very much with the concepts that that presents — they just tend to give you all the theory . |
| 11 | She contributed very little to the conversation as they ate their meal . |
| 12 | He had never met Hindley Foster , someone who seemed very much on the periphery of their lives . |
| 13 | You feel very much at the centre of things , ’ he said . |
| 14 | For one thing , she knew very little of the Empress 's plans and had sensed Ypres 's disappointment in her replies . |
| 15 | At the other end Tyrone Howe who saw very little of the ball during the match went over for a try in the left corner , following a fine break from Andrew Gallagher . |
| 16 | Without scaremongering , we fear very much for the needs of bus passengers . |
| 17 | ‘ We believed very much in the significance of what we were doing , ’ said Secord , leaving for a moment the sticky operational details . |
| 18 | During those early years of the colony 's existence we received very few of the homeless children who had grown accustomed to street wandering . |
| 19 | Warfare provides one , although we know very little of the period . |
| 20 | Times were not easy and there would have been much evidence of hardship , although actually we know very little of the ordinary day-to-day life of the miner and his family . |
| 21 | Beyond them lies that very mysterious region , the centre of the Galaxy , about which we know very little at the moment . |
| 22 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |
| 23 | As Ian Oswald once remarked , we know very little about the function of everyday , waking consciousness , so perhaps it is over-optimistic to believe that we should achieve a complete understanding of sleeping consciousness merely because we have reliable physiological indices of when dreams are likely to occur . |
| 24 | We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years . |
| 25 | Although we know very little about the tenurial and ownership patterns of these sites , it is likely that some of the inhabitants actually owned land outside the settlement and grew their own crops . |
| 26 | ‘ Remember , we know very little about the man . |
| 27 | This will pose particular problems for the Horizons Agency , because we rely very much on the weekly allowance for the people with special training needs , because their output in in terms of o output related funding is relative to the So our income is cutting for the people with the , who need the highest training staff ratio , in in order to succeed . |
| 28 | If they must be resident in the United Kingdom one should seek to reduce their powers so that they stand very much in the background acting only if things are going drastically wrong with the trust or major investment changes or beneficial ownership changes are to be made . |
| 29 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 30 | They deal very much with the breakup of the family . |