Example sentences of "very [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Randolph had a very strange problem as you might have guessed before , he had a white nose ! |
| 2 | It was very odd casting and they could n't quite work it out . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm a very strong person and it will take more than that to get rid of me , ’ he said . |
| 4 | But Limpar said : ‘ They have a very strong squad but nobody can beat England at Wembley when it really matters . |
| 5 | BELVILLE : I have had the mortification for some weeks past to come home to a very different Pamela than I used to . |
| 6 | And it 's a very different matter if you can start tracing sexual spider 's webs that link fabulous-looking women with men who ought to be unrelated : secretaries of state on the one hand and ( say ) drug-dealers , gun-runners , con-men , terrorists or Russian spies on the other . |
| 7 | ‘ What he actually says is a very proper reminder that you can do more good with wealth in the nation , in the community and in the family , but wealth for its own sake is not a good thing . ’ |
| 8 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 9 | I 'm a very careful driver but I will admit I do n't like men getting away first at the lights |
| 10 | And I 'd keep a very careful record and it 'd be on display , the day of the fête , people would have to guess the number of matchsticks in it altogether . ’ |
| 11 | I should think there 's a very high probability that it will because as I said to you earlier , the , yes . |
| 12 | They presumab they presumably think we 're very high tech and we can do this |
| 13 | This seemed to us to have a very high priority but it ca n't continue to have a high priority if we 're pushing against a closed door . |
| 14 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 15 | It was a very clear day and we could see a long way . |
| 16 | Erm and and er of course , did make a very clear statement that it would be the leader . |
| 17 | I 'm promised by our very reliable agent that we 'll receive the excessively handsome sum of fifty guineas , in the form of a draft from Paris , for the two letters from Molière to his lady love . ’ |
| 18 | But they say the investigation is in a very early stage and there could be more raids and arrests to come . |
| 19 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 20 | ‘ Bank robbery is a very serious crime and he must have known considerable violence would be involved as he provided the sledge hammer , ’ said Judge Hart . |
| 21 | It is a very personal taste so they can be difficult to sell . |
| 22 | ‘ There were other items … of a very personal nature that he could n't be selling , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 23 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 24 | for the very simple reason that we will at most have one franchise in er nineteen ninety four , ninety five |
| 25 | And with Karen Parsons in the state she was that evening , there seemed a very real possibility that it would be . |
| 26 | Now , when you are entering into a contract , and I wonder if you could send this to the to the chairman er your letter er of erm contract because to have a contract which can be varied in its cost always upwards is a very dangerous contract and I would interested to see the contract that is supplied which does not control price . |
| 27 | You catch both balls and repeat until you have a very smooth action when you will be ready to insert the third ball . |
| 28 | This is a very basic pattern but it can alter a plain garment dramatically . |
| 29 | It was really very hard work and he used to come back absolutely smothered in coal dust , very dirty . |
| 30 | In the case of Venus thermal tides make a very large contribution and it can be shown that it is this component of the overall circulation that may drive the 4–5 day zonal circulation and thus speed up the axial spin ( section 4.2 ) . |