Example sentences of "very [adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although her mum was upset and her dad was cross they did n't chuck her out but have been very supportive and she still lives at home with her two-year-old son . |
| 2 | Even though I come from Cuba and have naturally dark skin , it 's very dry so I always carry my Must de Cartier body lotion with me . |
| 3 | Some of them are very , very frail and they really get something out of the music , ’ said Mr Harper who likes nothing better than a foot-tapping , clapping and smiling congregation . |
| 4 | The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity . |
| 5 | I was very strong and he never tired me : sometimes I carried him on our afternoon walks instead of taking the pram , just for the pleasure of feeling my arms ache under his weight . |
| 6 | Although dislocations do exist in non-metallic crystals they are not usually very mobile and they seldom breed , thus dislocation movement does not play any important part in the way non-metals behave . |
| 7 | In many cases they get very depressed or they even die , because their image of themselves is very much bound up with work and . |
| 8 | The young dog , new to the job , ran about excitedly causing more confusion ; the old one , who was an expert , was so very old that he continually rolled over and fell asleep . |
| 9 | It 's very very funny because I actually laughed about it when I listened to it on tape first of all and I felt well maybe |
| 10 | Where space is particularly limited sliding mirrored doors prove very popular as they automatically create an illusion of spaciousness in even the smallest of rooms . |
| 11 | Roman 's gaze was very direct when he finally spoke again . |
| 12 | Bob Martin , from the Darlington Milk Buyers , said customers had been very generous and they still had more to collect . |
| 13 | And that it 's very disorganised and you never know where you are regarding rooms . |
| 14 | It was strained through sieves into stone water jars , and if the truth were told , it was probably not very alcoholic and it certainly had a short life . |
| 15 | As I mentioned before , vitamins are chemically very unstable and they certainly do not take well to this sort of treatment . |
| 16 | It is very easy when someone finally opens their filter sufficiently to say ‘ I feel angry about such and such ’ or ‘ I feel fearful ’ to turn around and tell them why a Christian should not feel that way . |
| 17 | I know it was n't very witty but it certainly galvanised my Dad . |
| 18 | And also I hear Mrs is n't well so I can need to pray for Mrs and I think also today we should pray for Mrs who I know , at this very time as Remembrance Sunday is coming up , she will be very sad so we particularly ask for prayers for her . |
| 19 | and my brother Glen , he 's ver he 's , he 's forgetful , he 's very forgetful and he always wants a clean up the sitting room . |
| 20 | ‘ I imagine , daddy , ’ Matilda said quietly , ‘ that you were n't looking very hard and you simply took mummy 's bottle of hair stuff off the shelf instead of your own . ’ |
| 21 | Speaking as a single parent who was left with children of twelve and eight , it is very hard and I often think it would be a good thing if social workers were better able to explain to young girls who are left with babies , just what it 's going to be like . |
| 22 | We 're not picking on you we 're just trying to get a conversation going here like , but it 's very hard when you just sit there and say nothing . |
| 23 | ‘ We have perhaps exceeded most people 's expectations by the way we have played this season , yet we are very conscious that we still have one more game to go , ’ he reasoned . |
| 24 | Unitarians were very conscious that they too had suffered discrimination ; they were a group who , because of their heterodoxy , were ‘ everywhere spoken against ’ . |
| 25 | Bob Henry , you must be aware of some of the criticisms which were levelled at the companies which were put out by arts associations , where they say really it 's very self-indulgent and nobody much goes to see this particular type of dance group . |
| 26 | But Great Malvern was worth visiting , if only for the best one-liner of the conference , from Joan Beck , chief inspector of Doncaster SSD : ‘ Equal opportunities is all very well until someone else gets the job you wanted . ’ |
| 27 | Then there 's the enclosures which are very noisy and you just have to hope you 've won . |
| 28 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 29 | It was very late when they finally had the meal that Felipe had ordered , and they were still in each other 's arms , talking and planning , when dawn began to break . |
| 30 | The first reference merely says that ‘ It 's all about man before birth , during life and at death — very deep and it never does what you expect it to ! ’ |