Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( We inevitably got the ‘ you fancy each other ’ spiel but I ignore people like that — I would like to hit them very hard ! ) |
| 2 | ‘ On the contrary , she understands me very well and I 'm still free to play chess . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am a fairly lonely person — I do have friends but I do n't get to see them very often because of my unsociable shift work . |
| 4 | They hoped to see me very soon . |
| 5 | Keith was with him through all of it and I think it made them very close , ’ adds Rigby . |
| 6 | Some children had last-minute treats of ice cream and sweets which made them very sick . |
| 7 | In an era when the average gross weekly wage was about £10 this made them very expensive props indeed . |
| 8 | The houses , scattered in the countryside , looked enormous , like fortresses , with large barns and farmyards attached to them , and all the buildings were an ochre colour which made them very beautiful in the evening sunshine . |
| 9 | I gave them a cup of Ruski čaj [ Russian tea ] , and that made them very , very happy , ’ |
| 10 | That 's been very pleasing and offers me very attractive playing options . |
| 11 | I go to college now I 'm doing my G C S Es and I 'm enjoying them very much and I 'm glad I went onto that course first . |
| 12 | For example the task could be to produce a news item which would amuse the audience , or which would surprise the audience , or which would make them very happy . |
| 13 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 14 | ‘ The code for America is 0101 and it will make me very rich . ’ |
| 15 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 16 | ‘ The sooner this business is done , Master Clerk , the sooner you are gone and that will make me very happy ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What the sack did was make me very determined that next time round that I 'd do a better job . |
| 18 | I promised , so if we give my parents some money towards the expenses it will make me very happy . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It would make me very jealous and insecure . ’ |
| 20 | For example , it would make me very happy if I could see you every night across my dinner table ; if when I woke in the morning , I would hear you wish me ‘ Bonjour , chéri ! ’ in that so charming accent of yours . |
| 21 | Still thinking that my drink was spiked in Kansas does n't make me very trusting . |
| 22 | My little Shelley , you are the only woman I have ever met who can make me very happy . |
| 23 | By ‘ sign ’ , I should say , I mean nothing very technical . |
| 24 | Your pears should be under-ripe because you are going to poach them very gently , and it is very important that they do n't go mushy on you . |
| 25 | You know like , if I 'm really thirsty , I could just gulp down a glass of water or a glass of orange , just like that , but with fizzy drinks , I do n't know , I ca n't swallow them very easily , just sort of er , |
| 26 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 27 | The way Tony DeFries went at it made me very suspicious . |
| 28 | Seeing how nature treats an inept hedgehog made me very glad that we have won the long counter-insurgency war with nature in the western world : but too weak-minded a reverence for nature is going to allow us to treat fellow humans as if they were hedgehogs in the shrubbery . |
| 29 | ‘ It made me very uncomfortable . |
| 30 | I 'd seen him earlier that night , here at the house , behaving in a way that made me very anxious to find out what he was doing here on Moila . ’ |