Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] very [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear the Churches do n't think very well of us . ’ |
| 2 | We did not care very much for politics . |
| 3 | Governments in Britain in the eighteenth century did not do very much ; some of the neglect of the colonies simply paralleled what was happening in the British Isles . |
| 4 | Because it was theirs , he knew how to shut the door , although it did not fit very well , without any irritating noise . |
| 5 | When Bernard came out of hospital he did not walk very well for a good long time . |
| 6 | The Princess , I realized , did not think very highly of the King . |
| 7 | She lost her home , was apart from her own family and my father , and did not fare very well at all when the time came to divide Aunt Bessie 's property . |
| 8 | This technique not only combated the problem of contrast , which autochrome plates did not handle very well , but it also created what he described as a wonderful three dimensional effect when projected . |
| 9 | This technique not only combated the problem of contrast , which autochrome plates did not handle very well , but it also created what he described as a wonderful three dimensional effect when projected . |
| 10 | Personally , I prefer the notion that this structure , whatever it was , did not open very far at this time and soon closed again . |
| 11 | But The Henderson Kids role did not last very long and Dannii still remained the more famous in the Minogue celebrity stakes . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid that desirable state did not last very long . |
| 13 | This ‘ new ’ Parliament did not last very long . |
| 14 | In the end they failed , but during their period of dominance they entered the sugar trade very successfully and persuaded the English in the West Indies to grow sugar to take the place of tobacco ; at first they thought they could absorb the English islands into the Amsterdam trading system , but while it quite soon turned out that this was not the case and direct Dutch influence did not last very long , the commitment to sugar dominated the islands for at least two hundred years and remained important long afterwards . |
| 15 | Pound had been released from confinement in April 1958 , largely as a result of Eliot 's collaboration with Robert Frost and Archibald MacLeish in petitioning the American government , but his exhilaration at his new freedom did not last very long . |
| 16 | But unfortunately he did not last very long , and his views were soon considered out of date by his successors . |
| 17 | Then came the arrest , and the trial , which did not last very long . |
| 18 | Sadly , Marks did not last very long and he was the first of the Commanding Officers of the four founder squadrons to he lost in battle ; this was flat only great loss to the squadron , hut certainly to the Pathfinders . |
| 19 | Roffman and Purdy list a number of new film genres that developed during these years but the vast majority of individual films mentioned did not move very far from what was becoming a stock depiction of the city with its gangsters , ‘ modern ’ women , and venal politicians and lawyers . |
| 20 | Generally speaking , people did not move very far . |
| 21 | For the most part , however , the labouring classes did not move very far . |
| 22 | Nagy and his coworkers have shown that the bitumen did not travel very far from the heat source before solidifying , so it did not move the uraninite away from the reactor site . |
| 23 | As in earlier times , people moved frequently within a wider neighbourhood than the parish , but usually they did not travel very far . |
| 24 | A survey of welfare spending by all private firms conducted by the Ministry of Labour in 1975 estimated that such payments yielded benefits equivalent to 10–15 per cent of annual earnings , but did not distinguish very clearly how this differs according to size of firm . |
| 25 | As for London , a three-fold increase in tonnage cleared did not lead very quickly to a solution to the severe congestion of the Pool , on which was concentrated a cargo handling facility employing 120,000 men . |
| 26 | We have not , for example , looked at government training schemes because until very recently they did not feature very prominently in government policies . |
| 27 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 28 | Charles , in Markham Square , did not seem very well briefed on the proposed development work I am doing . |
| 29 | Just occasionally Nails managed it , and saw that finding the rhythm and rising and falling to it was the nub of the whole uncomfortable business , but it did not happen very often . |
| 30 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |