Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pers pn] [was/were] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on the one occasion that I bought fretsaw blades from them for 3d a dozen , a penny cheaper than elsewhere , I found that they were very inferior , breaking almost immediately . |
| 2 | Karen found that it was very easy to talk to Drew . |
| 3 | West Midlands bureaux managers may feel proud at the number of workers who reported that they were very satisfied and could think of no way in which they would do things better . |
| 4 | I fell in love with snooker when I was about fourteen , but when I got to about sixteen or seventeen , I started travelling around and playing in junior competitions and realized that I was very good . |
| 5 | Mrs Corney agreed that it was very shocking . |
| 6 | He agreed that she was very good natured and nearly all Rotties he saw were calm and friendly . |
| 7 | I suddenly realised that he was very , very interested . |
| 8 | At approximately 1,500 feet I opened my eyes again and to my joy realised that I was very much lower down . |
| 9 | Denis [ Healey ] admitted that it was very unlikely we could close the whole of the balance of payments gap by 1978–79 , even if things went well . |
| 10 | Later reports from the fans themselves revealed that they were very aware of such groupings and were able to attribute a number of salient behavioural and social characteristics to them . |
| 11 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 12 | Those that did write back stated that they were very happy with their present designs . |
| 13 | When he came to see me , I said that I would write to the chairlady of the health authority , who replied that she was very sorry that this had happened but asked whether the gentleman could prove that the burn marks had been caused by the deposit from the hospital chimney . |
| 14 | Two minutes later the crew again indicated that they were very short on fuel and requested a short approach . |
| 15 | Richard Rodzinski talked about Poland , and his wife observed that we were very lucky to be treated like this in Moscow , and they both laughed too . |
| 16 | She felt it and discovered that it was very soft and stretchy . |
| 17 | cos I have n't , like she perceived that I was very kind of lost really . |
| 18 | On examination of the bones he decided that they were very old and the smell that exuded was particularly obnoxious . |
| 19 | They decided that it was very strange and exciting , and a very good reason to gallop around , and to snort and buck , and to carry on like madmen . |
| 20 | She had already left the show , but the rumours persisted that she was very fond of handsome Aussie stars Alan Dale and Ian Smith . |
| 21 | She repeated that she was very comfortable there and lived there by choice . |
| 22 | Killion saw that he was very angry . |
| 23 | it did n't like them at first , because she felt that they were very rough and uncouth . |
| 24 | There was so much going on , and in corporate finance you felt that you were very much at the sharper end . ’ |
| 25 | Erm , it 's certainly true that we reduced the total size of a particular team or unit dealing with international affairs , but only on the grounds that we actually felt that it was very important that all the teams should be working on international and European dimensions of their work , rather than seeing it as compartmentalised in one area . |
| 26 | I mean there is a , I do n't know if anybody saw there was a a programme on , it was actually B B C , erm , this week , it was about somebody who felt that she was very overweight and actually had her stomach stapled ! |
| 27 | Mike Gatting presented , and in the pre-match interviews he stressed that it was very , very hot , and I swear Gatt must have lost a stone just standing out in the middle talking about the pitch . |
| 28 | ‘ I understood that you were very young and — ’ |
| 29 | She only knew that he was very serious and that this was important to him for some reason . |
| 30 | but I thought that you were very good today , much better than before |