Example sentences of "[prep] a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a very haggard start to the season , they have come good since the start of the year , playing some of the most attractive football in the land . |
| 2 | After a very uncomfortable night being on the hard floor of the corridor with all the accompanying smells , the sight of the drab factory buildings and the tall grey tenements passing slowly past the carriage window was a most welcome sight . |
| 3 | And this pays in the results you get only after a very long time . |
| 4 | If such businesses are independent and directly answerable to the stock market , any bad investment decisions would only become apparent after a very long time . |
| 5 | But decline does not mean " cessation " , immediately or even after a very long time ; although erection will occur gradually less often , ejaculation will take longer to achieve with the passing years and the frequency of sexual intercourse tends slowly to decrease , there need not be any enormous difference sexually between a man of 20 and one of 70 . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ she said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 7 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 8 | It 's very satisfying after a very long investigation . |
| 9 | Self-styled funniest programme on telly HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU dusts itself off after a very poor return to the screen last week with well-known wit Charles Kennedy of the Liberal Democrats . |
| 10 | Included are regular guided walks , one of which leaves early after a very serious breakfast ! |
| 11 | And the cruise she was on at that time — well , that was to convalesce after a very serious operation , although , ’ he added wryly , ‘ she would probably kill me for mentioning it . |
| 12 | After a very pleasant lunch therefore , I taxied to the very end of the runway , turned into wind and took off . |
| 13 | Her whole point in life is that people criticize her because she does erm she can only actually look after a very small percentage of the people in Calcutta who need help and they all sort of say , Well she does that bit but what about the rest of them ? |
| 14 | After a very successful tour of West Indies , he took his second team off to Australia , but on the eve of the first Test he received a cable telling him that his widowed mother had died . |
| 15 | After a very competent dish of riz de veau ( pan friend veal sweetbreads ) accompanied by an excellent bottle of Pouilly Fuisse crisp , bags of ripe gooseberries — we skipped dessert and settled for another good coffee . |
| 16 | The Report was published after a very interesting and well-argued case was made by the Adamsdown Community Trust for precisely the sort of intervention which the Report proscribed . |
| 17 | After a very comfortable flight ( first class of course — the only way to fly my dear ) we arrived bright and cheerful at Riyadh Airport . |
| 18 | I followed the Sergeant out to the office ; we both sat at a small table , and after a very enjoyable supper of cheese rolls we played the chanters until 1 a.m. , pausing from time to time to drink a mug of tea . |
| 19 | Afterwards , there was still time for a spot of shopping and sight-seeing before embarking for home after a very enjoyable day . |
| 20 | One day after a very difficult time with him , I exploded and said to him : ‘ I ca n't say that the Christian faith has made much difference to your life ! ’ |
| 21 | I was very kindly invited back to the marquee for tea , but as it was by then after 4.30pm , I decided to go straight to the car , take off my dripping mackintosh , and drive back to London , after a very happy day which raised £25,000 for the Prince 's Trust . |
| 22 | Sadly widowed in 1983 after a very happy marriage , Jo has returned to her native Cotswolds and enjoys time spent with her nieces and nephews and their children . |
| 23 | So , after a very busy two more terms at the Royal College in which I gave my first recital , and also had a chance of playing the Beethoven Concerto No. 4 in G major at one of the Patron 's Fund Concerts with Adrian Boult as conductor , I left the College and came up to Oxford in October 1924 . |
| 24 | He married a model-turned-actress , then , instead of living happily ever after , divorced after a very public affair with his backing singer . |
| 25 | He returned after a very jolly trip , with a ten-pound carrot and a giant pumpkin , which he sent to Prince Charles . |
| 26 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 27 | My own experience is that the lowest ebb after a very hard run is not the morning after but the morning after that . |
| 28 | He died after a very short and sudden illness in June 1986 . |
| 29 | There was an inevitable lack of interest when rabbit stocks fell after myxomatosis , and after a very short time there was a corresponding fall in the number of ferrets retained for sporting purposes . |
| 30 | After a very short time , he stopped , and laid the bowl down . |