Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] very " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bob quelled her with a look , but I noticed slightly later and indeed all evening that she stuck very closely to his side , which could have been interpreted as her own insecurity if I had n't remembered Mackie saying that meek little Ingrid never gave Bob much chance to stray with the likes of Angela Brickell and God help him if he did . |
| 32 | The pace of business growth is such that she finds very few spare moments for leisure-time activities . |
| 33 | Julius 's mouth suddenly set into a hard line that she remembered very well , and her nerves gave an involuntary quiver . |
| 34 | The things that I picked up on was erm when , when you started , I thought that overall I mean you were getting the message across and , and overall that , you know , erm there was a lot of the areas that you tackled very well , and you reverted back to your old self and you did a lot better . |
| 35 | You will probably find that you perform very badly and feel dreadful for the first few minutes . |
| 36 | I told the police just now that you have very dark eyes and golden-brown hair . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ Has anyone … ’ his voice seemed to emerge with difficulty and he cleared his throat , began again , ‘ Has anyone ever told you that you look very much like the women in the Pre-Raphaelite paintings ? ’ |
| 38 | I have seen that you care very much for us … . ’ |
| 39 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 40 | ‘ Well , if Satan is the opposite of God it seems to me that we know very much less about him , and yet , his works are rather more evident , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 41 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |
| 42 | A despondent Renault worker remarked , ‘ It seems to me that we came very close to something new . ’ |
| 43 | NOT SO LONG AGO it seemed that we had very nearly lost our fairy tale beasts . |
| 44 | The survey told us that we had very few 11-19 year old visitors — an age group now catered for increasingly by our educational activities . |
| 45 | I think that we look very favourably on schemes whereby an education process is involved erm where there are workshops and performance , but it becomes a total package in itself — it 's not just a performance for an ethnic minority , but it 's one that represents the fact that we live in a multi-cultural society itself . |
| 46 | I can not accept that I should adopt a live-and-let-live neutral attitude to hawks and pigeons even though I accept the fact that we share very similar body mechanisms and an identical world . |
| 47 | We have someone always there for those who have er , society those who are poor er , women er , many of the issues that we feel very strongly and here , here She had no sort of cultural historic resonance with the nation of Wales but I 'm sure her and the way she approaches her whole ministry would mean that she 'd have a lot of than those of us here in the URC in Wales . |
| 48 | In 1730 Miller makes a specific request for ‘ cuttings or a small part of your sort of Cistus 's , which is a tribe of plants that we have very few of ’ . |
| 49 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 50 | Therefore , I can assure my hon. Friend , who represents a rural constituency , that we have very much in mind the needs of rural post offices and we shall look with interest at any requests that they make to us for extending their liability to sell other services . |
| 51 | However , at the same time I must say that we have very high welfare and hygiene standards in this country . |
| 52 | However , the vagaries of how people actually spend their incomes and the growing evidence that health is relative rather than absolute poverty , means that we have very little idea of how income is related to health in practice . |
| 53 | ‘ Naturally I want to be sure that we have very precise data about radon 's limited and localised occurrence . |
| 54 | And one of the things that we learn very early in history is the Great Fire of London . |
| 55 | When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it . |
| 56 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 57 | Both aircraft head-to-head at Farnborough were built in 1944 at the Oklahoma City plant , but beyond that they went very separate ways until meeting up in the UK in September , both toting turboprops . |
| 58 | Betty wrought all those peeled potatoes into rosti , and grilled some sausages , remarking that they contained very little meat . |
| 59 | the trouble is I find that they go very boardy when you got |
| 60 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |