Example sentences of "he [be] very [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens ’ — Morse consulted his watch ostentatiously — ‘ he is very shortly due to take off from Kennedy Airport to fly back to Heathrow , and he has already made a substantial confession about his part in the strange circumstances surrounding the Wolvercote Tongue and Dr Theodore Kemp . |
| 2 | ‘ No , he 's very much alive , ’ said Bernice . |
| 3 | But he 's very very straight about everything . |
| 4 | He 's very very thin |
| 5 | However , she must also have been thinking of Annabelle ( bride 's name ) when she added , ‘ She was of course only too good for him : but as nobody minds what is too good for them , he was very steadily earnest in pursuit of the blessing . ’ |
| 6 | But Goibniu was smooth and courteous ; he was very nearly urbane . |
| 7 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 8 | He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing . |
| 9 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 10 | He was very very tolerant with me and he brought me back into it without a lot of undue pressure and erm because transport was n't my life but I 'd sort of dedicated myself to it . |
| 11 | ‘ He was very very strong . ’ |
| 12 | But certainly that man that I went to that time he was very very nice and |
| 13 | was the General Manager then , he was very very keen on sport and erm in nineteen thirty eight , er saw the opening of the erm sports ground at Barragh Close , Flindburgh Road . |
| 14 | Aye he was very very keen er keep the Sunday clean . |
| 15 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 16 | He said to us that you know that is dick was so hard and he told us everything of what he did to her , he push his dick inside of her and he said he was very very rough with her and she was crying and crying and crying . |
| 17 | And er he was he he he you know came and spoke and he was very very good , aye . |
| 18 | I have no doubt that he was very very intelligent , in the ordinary meaning of the word , for example I think he probably had a very high I Q , for what that 's worth . |
| 19 | There was many 's a tramp that would have taken the A nine then but this one in particular and he was very very fond of him and he would ask when he was around to that he would get over to see him . |
| 20 | And then he was very er well now I 'm sorry after he 'd put all the hard work with me , he was very very annoyed and disappointed that I had let him down so . |
| 21 | I heard him a few times , he was very very entertaining , very entertaining , nice bloke really . |
| 22 | It then went into the City to set up their own self-regulatory and we in fact went to see Mr Redwood and he was quite he was very quite blunt about it , he said well , they considered it when they were sid considering the investors compensation scheme , but the sum involved in pensions are so great , that they could not afford to underwrite a pension er a compensation fund for pensions , so therefore there 's a pension fund for for private investment , but not a pension fund er compensation fund for , for occupation . |
| 23 | He was placed in West Brompton cemetery amongst the tombs , but he was very much alive . |
| 24 | ‘ But he was very much alive when he vanished … ’ |
| 25 | Today he was very much alive … although not high kicking , he does n't do that so much these days . |
| 26 | One former colleague recalls working with him in the early 1970s : ‘ Then he was very much one of the new breed . |
| 27 | But , like it or not , he nearly had to in August 1170 , when he was very seriously ill . |