Example sentences of "[verb] very [adj] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could remember them discussing it over the ironing and himself on the floor playing with his soldiers behind the sofa and keeping very quiet about it because it was way past his bedtime . |
| 2 | In broad daylight what 's more — and looking very charming in it too . |
| 3 | All now depended on the landing in Scotland , originally intended only as a diversion , though few who remembered James 's disaster-prone record can have felt very optimistic about it . |
| 4 | Whereas if you think well you know this is , I 'm doing this but I do n't know whether this is me and I do n't feel very comfortable with it and all that |
| 5 | Do n't feel very organized for it , do you ? |
| 6 | He certainly seemed very intent on it all . |
| 7 | He seemed very cheerful about it and chanted his ridiculous Ho ! |
| 8 | No one seemed very interested in it . |
| 9 | For some reason , he did n't look very pleased about it . |
| 10 | It 's just that I seem to have got very bored with it . |
| 11 | Yet despite its breakneck evolution , Medeva has been put together in pursuit of a definite strategic plan , and it looks as though the pharmaceutical world will become very familiar with it in years to come . |
| 12 | Those who do keep very quiet about it , although , as we have seen , the ‘ bootstraps ’ hypothesis concerning the origin of life is never totally dismissed by any but the most hidebound of life scientists . |
| 13 | They did n't sound very convinced about it . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not a thief , ’ said Peter , but he did not sound very sure about it . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't sound very enthusiastic about it , ’ Kolchinsky said . |
| 16 | ‘ Celia , you seem very worried about it . |
| 17 | You look forward to your meals very much , and I think you must have a cook with imagination because I know sometimes you have the same thing constantly and you get very bored by it . |
| 18 | Not in a farming community like North Yorkshire , people get very tense about it . |
| 19 | People get very confused by it . |
| 20 | Now , with the best will in the world , I stand in front of that sort of painting and I get very little from it . |
| 21 | David has become very philsophical about it and I have to learn from that . |
| 22 | Erm er , my name 's , an ordinary shareholder for long-standing erm , it would be very interesting , I do n't know whether this is possible now or maybe following on from what the speaker has said , if we had some idea of the American system which is er , I only know very little about it er I , just how that works because we have presidents and vice presidents and , er I think it work rather differently . |
| 23 | and you were getting very close to it , |
| 24 | My wife 's getting very upset about it , the whole affair and everything like that |
| 25 | The girls are getting very hot on it too . |
| 26 | No , part of the family 's , a big part of the family cos they to only getting the man getting very cross about it . |
| 27 | His body was found very close to it , but he had obviously been blinded by the blizzard . |
| 28 | Erm , we had the Rio conference in nineteen ninety-three , erm , we 'll still doing very little about it . |
| 29 | Despite the British media 's gleeful acceptance of its role as Prophet of Destruction ( there are two television crews and several war correspondents here ) , the average Cagliari businessman appears very relaxed about it all . |
| 30 | It 's a minefield ; certainly Government agencies feel very uncomfortable about it but to us it 's clear that TUPE will apply . |