Example sentences of "[vb past] this very [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 2 | It is perhaps significant that the first reported comment by a United States court on the Convention concerned this very area . |
| 3 | I made this very mistake of criticising the course during one of my medical placements , when I spent eight weeks on a busy medical unit . |
| 4 | In their famous study of kinship in Bethnal Green , Young and Willmott made this very point when they said , in their introduction , |
| 5 | He had , after all , used this very route during his advance on the 17th . |
| 6 | In Schofield 's pioneering study of the sexual behaviour of young people he was primarily interested in those between 15 and 19 years of age and he faced this very problem . |
| 7 | We know from another text that Iavolenus raised this very question ; and he seems , broadly , to have been in favour of interpreting such modalities in legacies as terms rather than conditions . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ I was in Vegas last year and one night I researched this very point … . ’ |
| 9 | The Office of Health Economics highlighted this very issue in Mental Handicap : Ways Forward , published in 1978 : |
| 10 | And then , on top of such bad news , came another message , a letter from Phoebe saying she could not after all repay Wilson 's kindness by standing in for her because she had this very day been ordered back to England and arrangements she had no part in had been made . |
| 11 | At one championship in Barbados they had this very problem , as the buoys needed three hundred feet of line to reach the sea-bed ! |
| 12 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 13 | And then when we elected erm two people Honorary Freemen of the town , erm I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and their mace-bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the assembly hall which was packed house of about four hundred people . |