Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] very [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made very little money , just enough to run my car . |
| 2 | I AGREED very much with Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd when he said on his visit to Somalia this month that the world has been ‘ collectively too slow ’ to respond to the wars and famine there . |
| 3 | Well cos I got very little Lego . |
| 4 | Not that I danced very much . |
| 5 | Our last recording was with the cellist António Meneses , which I admired very much because of the great beauty of line Meneses was able to bring to the epilogue . |
| 6 | Other radio ‘ names ’ who visited Windrush included the veteran E.V.Young , an exemplary performer , Frank Vyvyan , the English actor , and his wife Gladys who worked with Hilda Wilson in the CBC executive offices , Bill Buckingham , a versatile actor on many shows and his lovely actress wife Doris , Al Pearce , the perfect straight man , Cathy Graham , whom I admired very much for talent as well as personality , Bernard Braden , Barbara Kelly and John Drainie . |
| 7 | Both of these activities I enjoyed very much , but maths was a torture ! |
| 8 | One that I enjoyed very much recently was H. J. Massingham 's autobiography ‘ Remembrance ’ , which , if you have not read , I am sure you would like . |
| 9 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 10 | I found it difficult to get cuttings to root in earlier years , but I discovered that by starting them in water for 10 days , then potting up , I lost very few . |
| 11 | I felt very much on the outside . |
| 12 | Regarding another feature ( AMNESTY , June/July ) — another excellent issue , by the way , as usual — I felt very much for David Bull in view of the rockets he collected over the India fundraising appeal . |
| 13 | Erm , I felt very much that er without 's very skilful erm chairing of the last session that it would have been , it could have been , yes , very , I mean , a very inconclusive day . |
| 14 | For example , when I began researching into social aspects of book reading I knew very little at all about publishing or bookselling and my experience of libraries was mainly limited to being a user of them . |
| 15 | At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little . |
| 16 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 17 | I knew very little about school , but at least it would be a change , the start of a new life . |
| 18 | He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him . |
| 19 | At that time I knew very little about Montaigne : but Eliot had come to him through Shakespeare and the influences upon Shakespeare ( who must have read the Apologie de Raymond Sebond ) ; and , as he said in his essay on Pascal , Montaigne 's outlook is the only credible alternative to that of belief . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew very little about Irish League football when I came back from Nottingham Forest , except that Linfield and Glentoran were the top two clubs . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw very little of him , in the early years . |
| 22 | The only common factor was Mrs Marcia Williams ( now Lady Falkender ) , his private and political secretary , of whom I saw very little , but I saw enough of her to realise the immense influence she exercised over Harold Wilson . |
| 23 | Mr McCue had seen the ski jump being used and commented : ‘ I saw very few people actually ski from the very top of the ramp most of them start half way down . ’ |
| 24 | I must go to London , for I brought very little gear with me , so I will see him then . ’ |
| 25 | I took very little part in the conversation . |
| 26 | I heard a performance conducted by Schreier which I liked very much . |
| 27 | She was assisted by Miss Walker , whom I liked very much , and I was so sad when she left to get married . |
| 28 | Now the other gentleman I liked very much . |
| 29 | She was with me on one occasion when we went to Saltburn where they had some Italian gardens which I liked very much . |
| 30 | But there was one which I liked very much and which still makes me laugh , which was n't to do with my performance , but with my appearance . |