Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [be] very [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selina and I are very well suited . |
| 2 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And I was very much blamed . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fortunately the police did not prosecute and she was very successfully treated with medication . |
| 7 | and they 're very well done . |
| 8 | Wimbledon from the premiership were running out to do battle and they were very nearly beaten at their own game … |
| 9 | That 's what Oxford thought and they were very nearly punished , as the Geordies hit back with 2 goals in 4 minutes . |
| 10 | Surely these are two major facets of the Royal Canoe Club 's 125 years of existence and they were very well expressed on this occasion . |
| 11 | The family connection between Harry and his daughter was sufficiently diffused not to matter and they were very well matched . |
| 12 | Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground . |
| 13 | I have gained much pleasure from this music , which was new to me , and it is very well played by Cantilena under Adrian Shepherd . |
| 14 | Childebert 's reign over the combined kingdoms of Sigibert and Guntram was short , and it is very poorly recorded . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |