Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] very [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 2 | My only rather weighty problem is the fact that I speak very little French though I am learning , both at French lessons and at my Medau classes . |
| 3 | ‘ I see that I know very little . |
| 4 | ‘ You introduced me to Paris and it will be my turn to introduce you to England — not that I know very much about London . |
| 5 | I have a small , immediate family and up until my cancer I would say that I had very few friends . |
| 6 | I also reminded her of her predictions concerning Lord Lovat and herself , and that I hoped very much to see the end of the campaign in Normandy and looked forward to meeting her again in the Highlands . |
| 7 | One that I enjoyed very much recently was H. J. Massingham 's autobiography ‘ Remembrance ’ , which , if you have not read , I am sure you would like . |
| 8 | Not that I danced very much . |
| 9 | So much so that I want very much to make love to you again . |
| 10 | This may be the book of a man whom ‘ mountaineering makes … happy , but there 's no doubt at all that I have very little talent for it . ’ |
| 11 | It was apparent to Cassie that the discovery that she wore very little beneath her outer clothing had had a powerfully erotic effect upon him , and now he pushed aside the bodice and gazed at her breast , at the same time remarking appreciatively : ‘ You 're an astonishing girl , Cassie . |
| 12 | Sometimes Lydia felt that she had very little to lose , and in her poverty lay her safety . |
| 13 | The pace of business growth is such that she finds very few spare moments for leisure-time activities . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , if Satan is the opposite of God it seems to me that we know very much less about him , and yet , his works are rather more evident , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 15 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 16 | The survey told us that we had very few 11-19 year old visitors — an age group now catered for increasingly by our educational activities . |
| 17 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 18 | However , the vagaries of how people actually spend their incomes and the growing evidence that health is relative rather than absolute poverty , means that we have very little idea of how income is related to health in practice . |
| 19 | Therefore , I can assure my hon. Friend , who represents a rural constituency , that we have very much in mind the needs of rural post offices and we shall look with interest at any requests that they make to us for extending their liability to sell other services . |
| 20 | In 1730 Miller makes a specific request for ‘ cuttings or a small part of your sort of Cistus 's , which is a tribe of plants that we have very few of ’ . |
| 21 | When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it . |
| 22 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 23 | Betty wrought all those peeled potatoes into rosti , and grilled some sausages , remarking that they contained very little meat . |
| 24 | In fairness to the LTA , in the particular circumstances of the time , I do not believe that they had very much option . |
| 25 | On the other hand , some may never have placed such emphasis on independence in their lives , or never felt that they had very much independence in the first place . |
| 26 | I realised that men in politics had dominated world attitudes for long enough and although they claimed to be experts on everything , my experience showed that they understood very little . |
| 27 | her parents , but they , they do n't have their friends , in fact I 'm not sure that they did very much at all , I think that Myrie meant it when she said that what they wanted was the most peaceful sort of Christmas that you could possibly imagine , with no big teas , big meals or anything |
| 28 | Nobody likes to admit that they entertain very little , or that they rarely enjoy it when they do . |
| 29 | If they must be resident in the United Kingdom one should seek to reduce their powers so that they stand very much in the background acting only if things are going drastically wrong with the trust or major investment changes or beneficial ownership changes are to be made . |
| 30 | One of the reasons why farmers consume so much water is that they pay very little for it — between 1 and 2 per cent of the price paid in cities . |