Example sentences of "[verb] very [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I suppose it is the first time , it 's the only film of its type , you , you know what I 'm getting at , it 's exactly the same thing we , we tried very hard to avoid in the access guide , actually being able to say what instead of just saying you know |
| 2 | I tried very hard to think about something , anything , that would help me keep my head clear . |
| 3 | It 's among the shyer species of Cory and is considered very difficult to spawn in aquaria . |
| 4 | The true state must have settled frontiers rather than vague notional territories that many modern historians ( Partner , Waley , Laufs ) see Innocent III as the founder of the Papal State as distinct from previous popes who were little more than nominal overlords of disparate and scattered lands which they found very difficult to control without imperial help . |
| 5 | This has very little to do with the quality and entertainment value of the films themselves . |
| 6 | Politics has very little to do with issues ; it is all to do with the personal vanities and ambitions of politicians . |
| 7 | It seems to me that there are a number of satellites ( labels like 4AD , Mute , Factory , Play it Again Sam , Product Inc , Blast First , plus various hip hop , house and electro producers whose work has very little to do with the human ) , satellites bound to Planet Pop by some kind of gravitational attraction , yet estranged by the nature of their practices ( the lost spirit of ‘ 67 and ‘ 79 ) . |
| 8 | It has very little to do with her life , and they would be bizarre parents or catechetists who really wanted the girls in their charge to emulate Rose of Lima in any very direct way . |
| 9 | The comprehensive and pervasive nature of planning makes it easy to forget that it has very little to do with private rights and restrictions . |
| 10 | Much of it has very little to do with what you are , and that is an emotion I have always felt and will always feel . |
| 11 | The weakening effect of the scratch has very little to do with the amount of material removed , a shallow scratch will do nearly as well as a deep one , it is the sharpness of the re-entrant that increases the stress . |
| 12 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |
| 13 | The only memory upgrade that you have performed is to add expanded memory and this has very little to do with the operating system you are using . |
| 14 | The root of delinquency , the alienation , the violent and despairing habits of today 's young , has very little to do with the fact that their parents failed to love them — most adults look round quite desperately for something , anything to coo over , however erratically — but that their parents failed to be worthy of their love . |
| 15 | ‘ What you 're tempting me to at this moment , my good girl , has very little to do with passion ! ’ declared Benedict roundly . |
| 16 | From Nirex 's new timetable it is clear that the lab has very little to do with rigorous scientific investigation and everything to do with pulling the wool over the eyes of [ local ] people . " |
| 17 | It has very little to do with style , innovation , or direction , says John Davidson . |
| 18 | One has very little to offer in an interview and one sits there feeling rather embarrassed . |
| 19 | This Op Wolf -style shoot'-em-up has very little going for it . |
| 20 | Erm , the Audit Commission has very much picked on the point that they see a key area of community care success , is in avoiding deadlocking , having adequate discharge arrangements , having agreements with health authorities , and meeting those agreements . |
| 21 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 22 | It was winter wonderland around St. Alban 's College when more than 80 keen enthusiasts arrived clad in warm woolies and boots for the Annual Hertfordshire Day Rally organised by Doreen Copas in February and guest teachers Vanessa Forbes and Chris Markham had risen very early to allow for possible hazards along their respective snowy cross-country journeys . |
| 23 | Their topics of conversation seemed very limited compared to what we talked about at home . |
| 24 | The billeting troubles seemed very minor compared to my happiness , but Wendy and I still had to find somewhere to live . |
| 25 | Her sister was fond of animals too , but had never had very much to do with them and had moved away from home just after her eighteenth birthday . |
| 26 | She had had very little to do with Bunny , but on their occasional meetings the girl had grown more civil of late . |
| 27 | The blood glucose level checked by the practice nurse or diabetic clinic is perhaps just in single figures but with close questioning the patient has had very little to eat for several hours . |
| 28 | A survey carried out by the Medical Officer of Health for Sheffield in 1912 showed very few MOsH to be in favour of day nurseries . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd like very much to meet with you , if that 's possible . ’ |
| 30 | The bone shows very fine splitting along the lines of orientation of the collagen fibres ( Fig. 1.4A ) and slight erosion of the pits and canals , but these are only visible under high magnification and can not be seen by the naked eye . |