Example sentences of "be very [adj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officer added : ‘ We 're very pleased he has been caught . |
| 2 | She said we 're very pleased she said to er receive the invitation . |
| 3 | tangle it , just trying to tangle it up , cos the idea being if he gets round a weed , often enough he go that means , basically it gives him a lever , I mean they 're very clever you know , these fish , they 're not , they do n't just sort of sit there and wait . |
| 4 | To tell you what to do but it 's also knowing how to do it , because sometimes especially if we knew in the truth , we do n't always know what to do and if we 're very young you see , we 're , it 's , it 's one |
| 5 | We 're very expensive they tell us . |
| 6 | I mean erm you know erm when I go to the London Group erm we all know that erm actually er there 's a kind of , there 's an inner feeling you know well we 've got the right computers , we , we 're the you know , we , we believe computing and we , we 're very sorry you know we 're erm we may not actively despise them , but we , we 're sorry that they have to bother with such an awful operating system and everything else . |
| 7 | but of course , er three or four days later , you 're very sorry you did n't pose that question the minute they er put their foot on er |
| 8 | So er and they 're very bullish I have to say , very bullish about the way things are going . |
| 9 | So when you 're very ill you get dextrose and saline . |
| 10 | And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know . |
| 11 | I think the young people today , they 're very kind you know . |
| 12 | If you 're very sick you know it says on there . |
| 13 | He said well you 're very lucky he said by my estimation that 's worth four thousand pounds |
| 14 | they 're very strict I mean |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got a feeling Mr. Preston , that I 'm going to be very grateful we ran into each other tonight . ’ |
| 16 | So we need people with different personalities and different types to be within that within any group for a group to be very successful you need some sort of share of the different types of group if you had a predominance of shapers you 'd get nowhere . |
| 17 | This 'll be very hot I expect |
| 18 | and a garage built on but mm mm That JFK 's supposed to be very good you know , the film . |
| 19 | So erm we 're going to be very busy I think . |
| 20 | You ‘ Il be very glad you did this if you turn up one day to find the river high and murky because if , for example , you know that one swim has a lovely clean gravel bottom and another has half a Morris 1000 and a blackberry bush in it then this may help you decide where to fish and where to stick your mate ! |
| 21 | I think we have to be very careful we do n't take reactions which actually negate some of the work and the common sense that has been undertaken at the moment . |
| 22 | ‘ Which means be very careful you do n't get fatally stung , my darling Lioness . ’ |
| 23 | Where the net should be very slack it becomes much tighter . |
| 24 | He comes home late night , one Saturday night , having been working long hours , not having enough sleep , she nags him and Madam he loses his temper with her and Madam , I am sure that you and I in our relationships same sort of stress in a different situation where , where we 've been nagged by our partners and lost our temper and pushed them about , or whatever , and we 'd be very surprised I think to find ourselves in , in my client 's situation had that happened , because what , what happened here Madam was that erm the girlfriend suffered some minor injuries , nothing to worry about really . |
| 25 | And I would be very happy you know |
| 26 | do n't think you 'd be very happy you know |
| 27 | Now Mill seems to be very unsure what to do about this because he does n't want to say that the poor should be disenfranchised , because after all everyone is entitled to their say in government , but he does seem to be worried that if the poor are given an equal say or the uned uneducated poor are given an equal say , then they will make a very bad decision , a decision which is against their own interests and this is one reason why he favours plural voting because he recognizes that the numerical majority might make a erm wrong decision , so we should make sure that the numerical majority do n't have sway in a democratic process by giving another client more weight in it so he seems to between wanting to disenfranchise them altogether which he seems to consider and just emasculating their vote by giving other people more votes . |
| 28 | I 'm very pleased we got him , ’ Clough said . |
| 29 | So I 'm very pleased you know I suggested it to Wendy and Wendy agreed that |
| 30 | Oh I 'm very pleased I think you 're going to like fractions are n't you . |