Example sentences of "[vb past] very [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fothergill wrote to Marshall , advocating William Young 's method of packing : plants safely wrapped up in moss and packed very tightly in a box . |
| 2 | It worked very well for a while . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought it worked very well as a drama , ’ she said . |
| 4 | She felt very much like an ordinary squaddy whose life revolved around the phrase ‘ hurry up and wait ’ ! |
| 5 | It still looked very much like a castle , the interior with great arched ceilings , and Maggie was determined to enjoy everything and ignore the dark , brooding air of the man who kept her closely at his side . |
| 6 | It looked very much like a Francis Bacon , and an original at that . |
| 7 | ‘ Hello , ’ Ken called back , feigning the appearance of what looked very much like a smile . |
| 8 | The air was so full of flying stones , pieces of metal , swirling dust , that it was impossible to make out the markings on the car which had ended up skewed across the track , but it looked very much like a Dalgety . |
| 9 | Apart from its bill , at a distance it looked very much like an out of place penguin . |
| 10 | She lay very still for a moment , trying to think . |
| 11 | Two years later he built Hinderton , which faintly resembles a French château mixed very weakly with a Scottish manse . |
| 12 | The September demonstrations appeared very much like a single-issue movement , but I would argue that other concerns were raised , including the lack of political reform in China . |
| 13 | Credit to them , they came back , got a great goal , Les Phillips had a great game , made the first one I think , no the second one he made did n't he ? erm But he played tremendous , Les ; he got the passing going and I thought they did very well as a team , we kept our composure . |
| 14 | Credit to them , they came back , got a great goal , Les Phillips had a great game ; made the first one I think , no the second one he made did n't he ? erm But he played tremendous , Les , got the passing going , and I thought we did very well as a team , we kept our composure . |
| 15 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 16 | The great majority of the children recovered very quickly after a quarrel and showed no evidence of resentment . |
| 17 | He stood very still for a moment and then lifted his hand and gently traced a line across her swollen cheek . |
| 18 | Héloise de Rochefort stood very still for a moment , then she covered her face with her hands and began to cry in great , gusty , choking sobs . |
| 19 | He stood very still for a few seconds , a faint frown lining his forehead , then the wide mouth twisted in the wry teasing smile which flipped her heart over . |
| 20 | Isabel remained very still for a minute , thinking about how much worse she must look with red-rimmed eyes and tears mingling with the dirt on her face . |
| 21 | None of this sat very well with a party which was trying to settle on the left . |
| 22 | She sat very still for a moment , the room revolving around her like a carousel as the pain in her head hammered to a crescendo then receded again to a just bearable throb . |