Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was very [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard for me to leave Spain , where I was very well known and settle in Palm Springs , California , ’ says Jose Higueras , a former Davis Cup player for Spain from 1974 to 1980 . |
| 2 | Francis Bacon : I know that I was very much influenced by Picasso , especially when I was young , but now you 're so flooded with illustrations of everything , that you hardly know in the end what you 're principally influenced by . |
| 3 | However , from the teacher 's comments it was clear that it was very much intended . |
| 4 | The Portuguese Da Silva had a permanent affliction in that he was very slightly hunchbacked . |
| 5 | It also began to occur to her that he was very well dressed for a pickpocket — but no doubt the streets of central London provided rich pickings . |
| 6 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 7 | He looked to the United Nations to devise a system of trusteeship which ( so it was very carefully phrased ) " would make effective the right of colonial peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live as soon as in the opinion of the UN they are qualified for independence " . |
| 8 | This was exciting and I was very soon trying crystals of all sorts of substances taken from the shelves of my own and my colleagues ' laboratories . |
| 9 | And I was very much blamed . ’ |
| 10 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 11 | Fortunately the police did not prosecute and she was very successfully treated with medication . |
| 12 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 13 | Well , i it was n't too bad at all , they the tailor 's shop actually , it was er a tailor and his wife , who had built up a business over the years , in Stapleford , and it was very well patronized by Stapleford people . |
| 14 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 15 | So we 're talking about the seventeen hundred , eighteen hundred , and it was very often known as a national song , and we had a national song , probably before any other country . |
| 16 | At least both of those incidents had humour — life can get pretty tedious when it 's missing and it was very definitely absent the night Richard Gere was a guest . |
| 17 | Cos it was very high pitched and er Rob said aye I can hear it as well ! |
| 18 | It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world . |
| 19 | The moves for an extended system of university education reach back to the 18405 when it was aimed at providing more qualified candidates for Anglican ordination , but it was very soon transformed into a more lay-oriented mission . |
| 20 | A meeting was convened on 1st July 1600 to discuss the state of affairs but it was very poorly attended ; still the Germans were granted £200 to lay in peat , coal and other fuels for the next winter … and there was concern for the plight of the workmen should the mining halt . |
| 21 | ‘ I recently went to Ireland , and my visit was the headline news story in every Irish newspaper , but during that time there was not a single column inch devoted to it in the English press , whereas it was very prominently reported in the European press . |
| 22 | That the building exists at all is a wonder , as it was very badly damaged in World War II . |
| 23 | A second tomb , situated directly opposite that destined for Franco , in front of the high altar , was not kept secret , for it was very soon to receive its occupant . |