Example sentences of "was very [adj] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very packed in there but I could n't see a lot of anything . |
| 2 | Similarly the status of the Tridacnid clams in terms of conservation was very worrying until recently when captive breeding and replenishment programmes began to achieve success . |
| 3 | It was very hot in here , and there were clouds of steam everywhere . |
| 4 | To friends , though , Law appeared very differently , and the people who became his friends provide testament to the fact ; he was very close with both Max Aitken and David Lloyd George , neither of whom was very likely to enjoy the company of a gloomy boor . |
| 5 | Now this was a family I was very close to eventually when they became quite near neighbours in later years by moving to Clove Lodge , just up the pasture from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 6 | I must admit that I did not enjoy Osborne House that much but I was very tired by then . |
| 7 | It was very tempting to just stay put but the longer we put it off the worse it would be . |
| 8 | It was Glasgow-born American Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown and Captain John Alcock who had first flown an aircraft across the Atlantic one month earlier in June , and their terrible journey in a giant biplane bomber powered by Rolls-Royce engines was very different from today 's high-cruising world of in-flight movies . |
| 9 | The glaive was very popular in both France and Germany , and the word ‘ glaive ’ was frequently used to mean any knife or blade attached to a shaft . |
| 10 | He was very kind to both of us , and played with us in the days when older brothers did not expect to play with ‘ little kids ’ . |
| 11 | The figure I gave you about the amount of money I 've spent gives you a notion about the size of the advance , which was very generous from both Gollancz and the Americans [ Putnam ] . |