Example sentences of "was [adv] very [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's such a Cinderella story : she was so very young when she was first plucked from obscurity and hurled into the limelight and yet her transformation has been so quick . |
| 2 | The young dog , new to the job , ran about excitedly causing more confusion ; the old one , who was an expert , was so very old that he continually rolled over and fell asleep . |
| 3 | He was so very stubborn and single-minded when he went after something he wanted . |
| 4 | Back the maid went , only to reappear shaking her head sorrowfully and saying this headache was so very bad as to quite incapacitate the invalid and render her unfit even for Wilson . |
| 5 | He was sure , too , that she had believed him and he knew that the reason for this was that the story he had concocted was so very unlikely that no liar could possibly have put his faith in it . |
| 6 | Nicholson was obviously very grateful and benefited from the continuing rewards as the film made its way to Europe , where Dennis was voted the best new director of the year at Cannes . |
| 7 | But she was obviously very upset and I felt I could n't leave her . |
| 8 | ‘ He was obviously very drunk and was making a nuisance of himself , ’ said Mr Kelly . |
| 9 | She was obviously very unhappy and managed to conceal it most of the time . ’ |
| 10 | Clutterbuck was obviously very cultivated and very ahead of his time , for this was an early move towards romantic landscaping . |
| 11 | She was obviously very hungry because she always gulped her food down like there was no tomorrow . |
| 12 | This style of painting was obviously very popular but thankfully the English developed landscape painting away from the picturesque reaching their apogee with Turner and Constable . |
| 13 | As I turned over in bed everything was suddenly very wet and I felt a ripple of shock as I realised what had happened . |
| 14 | It was soon very apparent that English football was slightly different to the Belgian variety ; pushing and shoving , together with hard tackling , were all part of the English game . |
| 15 | It was physically very demanding and I sweated Clifford right out of my system . |
| 16 | This , indeed , is what happened in due course , but the old village was far from disintegrated by such new building unless it was already very small and decaying . |
| 17 | Merrison noted that Gunn 's original report backing the accelerator had warned that ‘ the competition in this field was already very keen and [ he ] pointed out that if full value was to be secured from the project it should be started immediately ’ . |
| 18 | He was just very pro-African and Africa 's particular way of life . |
| 19 | And it was just very stupid because you can add nothing to a thing which is perfect like that . |
| 20 | Airframe condition was generally very good and mechanical work comprised mainly of fabrication of a few missing panels , removal of surface corrosion and re-assembly , taking in total around 200 manhours . |
| 21 | The average spending on new equipment was generally very modest but the majority of firms reported major benefits in terms of increased efficiency , quality , output , and in the range of products or services they could offer . |
| 22 | ‘ He was always very supportive and helpful . |
| 23 | ‘ He was always very helpful and polite . |
| 24 | Mrs Lynde already knew about Anne 's troubles at school , and she was always very pleased when people asked her to help . |
| 25 | He was always very protective and gentlemanly towards Tom 's mother , but as long as Tom could remember they had slept in separate bedrooms . |
| 26 | She never rushed anywhere ; she was always very graceful and calm . |
| 27 | Ken Pitt : ‘ I think the great problem was David was always very insecure and because he was n't achieving the renown he wanted , like most artists he began to worry , bearing in mind that David was now living at Haddon Hall with a few of his friends , all of whom were unaware of what was going on in the office and how we were planning David 's career , what progress we were really making . |
| 28 | I was always very nervous when trying to help a very dear elderly aunt , because I never did things quite the ‘ right ’ way ! |
| 29 | Very often the film , which was always very old and fragile , broke ; and usually at the most exciting part . |
| 30 | Yet , when he did notice somebody was down , he was always very concerned and would try to cope with it , as with everything , head on . |