Example sentences of "very [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he did n't tell us was that the boats were tied very loosely and had a disturbing tendency to drift apart as you were in the process of climbing from one to another . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Stooping down and keeping a very sharp lookout from under my hat , I coughed several times , splashed the water about , and then , moving very slowly and gathering dry sticks on the way ( as the local Indians might do ) , I went to the foot of the steep rock . |
| 4 | This system worked very slowly and made secrecy virtually impossible : it has been calculated that in all some 2,000 people may have had some influence , direct or indirect , on the functioning of this cumbersome machinery . |
| 5 | I usually follow fashion very slowly and creep in just as it starts to look dated , but then I think that 's the way I should do it . |
| 6 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 7 | George turned the ignition key very slowly and jumped when the engine started . |
| 8 | She was going very slowly and breathing heavily in her resolve that not a drop of whisky should be spilled . |
| 9 | The work progressed well until it was discovered that the original iron braces inserted into the stonework by Scott had rusted very badly and expanded several inches , forcing the stonework upwards . |
| 10 | You will probably find that you perform very badly and feel dreadful for the first few minutes . |
| 11 | Many elderly housebound people living alone feel the loss of their independence very keenly and fear becoming a burden to others . |
| 12 | He greeted her very warmly and blushed in the sweetest way when she gave him a sisterly kiss . |
| 13 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 14 | Whereas in actual fact if they come in very nicely and ask very nicely , they might have got more than they actually got here when they came in shouting and yelling . |
| 15 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 16 | The one I like best is Lizzie Webb 's ‘ The Body Programme ’ , which starts off very gently and incorporates exercises that any age group can attempt . |
| 17 | Sometimes I have to make a lot of noise with them and move my body with them like passion — and sometimes they just slide out very gently and do n't affect me so much , like a cooling system . |
| 18 | Thank you very much and thank you for a very well . |
| 19 | Thank you very much and thank you for coming down and talking to us today . |
| 20 | I played a couple of tracks to Hugh and he liked them very much and wanted to hear some more , so I took some more up to him . |
| 21 | I told her that I loved her very much and wanted to marry her . |
| 22 | Yes thank you very much and do n't put that |
| 23 | I loved him very much and did n't like him going away . |
| 24 | More non-enrollers than migrants said they intended to do a course in the future ( 63% compared with 40% ) and the non-enrollers were also much more likely to say they wanted to start the course very soon and had made enquiries about it . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , I hope to be back in action very soon and continue my study of discoveries in unknown areas . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm a fairly standard size 12 , but my stomach gets bloated very easily and tends to stick out , ’ she says . |
| 27 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 28 | Once established it grows very rapidly and forms a thick ‘ carpet ’ . |
| 29 | Although measurements in small watersheds were undertaken in the late nineteenth century , it was after the mid twentieth century that the movement developed very rapidly and absorbed the attention of some physical geographers . |
| 30 | But the business was growing very rapidly and expanding abroad . |