Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] very [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband and I were very angry to receive from M.S.W. to contribute to Africa and Asia to assist their water flow , when just down the road from our house the same company had caused the flood meadows to dry up . |
| 2 | ‘ I was very sorry to hear about your husband , Mrs Ward , ’ Langton said , closing the door of his office and ushering them towards two chairs . |
| 3 | I was very sorry to hear of your father 's death , and would like to offer my sincere sympathy . |
| 4 | ‘ I was very surprised to hear about the child , ’ she told Marilla . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh no ! ’ she said in fright , ‘ no — I mean , I must n't think of it , I should go back , I was very wrong to walk on your land — ’ |
| 6 | Gillian Kent from Microsoft replies : As the Product Manager for Microsoft Works , I was very concerned to read about the difficulties you 've experienced , I am able to confirm that Microsoft Works 3 will work with an 8086 ( or higher ) processor with 640Kb of memory . |
| 7 | Yes well I , I was very fair to start with . |
| 8 | — I was very glad to see by the Newspapers that Mr. Gould had arrived safely at Hobart Town . |
| 9 | She was very woprried to begin with because she did n't knowe the language and no one was sure how ill Adisa was . |
| 10 | She was very woprried to begin with because she did n't knowe the language and no one was sure how ill Adisa was . |
| 11 | And the very erm she was very anxious to come with me when I went out into the park . |
| 12 | She was very difficult to reason with . |
| 13 | She was very welcome to stay on Saturday night , Bridget said , although she herself was going to the Oxford Playhouse . |
| 14 | We were very glad to arrange for five photographers to make a survey of the village ; its people and occupations — unusual sights and environment |
| 15 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 16 | No , in my school it was very easy to go into science . |
| 17 | Karen found that it was very easy to talk to Drew . |
| 18 | It was very nice to talk to you . ’ |
| 19 | It was very nice to hear from you and have your latest news . |
| 20 | Thanks for the great May issue — it was very surreal to read about racial ( in ) tolerance and ( in ) justice in Europe while Los Angeles was burning . |
| 21 | But in terms of the preparation for that , in bidding for grant aid , and it was very much tied into a successful bid for grant aid , that was forthcoming but only on the grounds that the scheme was committed by the end of December . |
| 22 | It was very much recommended by the Wine Society an Italian wine and I hope that |
| 23 | ‘ It was very disturbing to hear of patients being referred to as ‘ nigger ’ . |
| 24 | He says it was very exciting to work with her because he never knew what she was going to do from one take to another . |
| 25 | It was true that it was very hard to work in the public baths . |
| 26 | Indeed , until cartography had reached a certain level of development it was very difficult to think of frontiers at all in these linear terms . |
| 27 | It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time . |
| 28 | Before the days of common subsurface investigation it was very difficult to distinguish between the two . |
| 29 | It was very difficult to keep in working order , and when the emperor Charles V saw it in Pavia in 1529 it needed repair . |
| 30 | He was very nervous to start with , which was funny because he was enormously self-assured professionally . |