Example sentences of "[be] very [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Pamela I mean , thou art very good in the main .
2 ‘ You 're very anxious to know , a n't you ? ’ returned Mrs Varden , with her eyes on the print .
3 Or if you 're frightened or if you 're very anxious , if you 're gon na do something important and you 've not done it before and you get a bit anxious , you can use the ylang-ylang which is the Oil of Tranquillity .
4 er They 've lost most of their goods , er they 've had to leave enormous amounts of , of , of their personal belongings in , in Kuwait , they 're , they 're not physically in bad shape , but mentally they 're , they 're very anxious and , and they know they 've lost a lot of belongings .
5 ‘ You 're very cool , very confident .
6 We 're very pleased .
7 The officer added : ‘ We 're very pleased he has been caught .
8 We 're very pleased to see Anne getting married , at last .
9 We 're very pleased .
10 And there seems to be a good spirit around and Yeah we 're we 're very pleased to be here , you know .
11 They 're very pleased with what we 've done for them ! ’
12 ‘ You 're very pleased about their engagement , I believe ?
13 But erm , one of my neighbours works for A C A S and I asked him er , his opinion of the G M B , and he said good negotiators , hard negotiators , but very good at getting better conditions for their members and I think he , and certainly I knew before , that the G M B is one of the most progressive trade unions in this country and we 're very pleased to have them in Portsmouth .
14 This year , we have been running the general SVQ at level I for around 36 students in S5 — and we 're very pleased with the way it 's gone .
15 Erm , once again , the problems are being addressed in to a certain extent regarding residential homes and we 're very pleased with that .
16 interesting as well as a er edible lunch er we 're very pleased now to start away the afternoon session and I 'm particularly pleased to be able to introduce Patricia Routledge , she 's an actress with so many parts in so many media that I 'm not going to make any further introduction , but merely to ask her to come up and speak to us .
17 There were troubles to start with , but you ask any of the schools in the south whether they want Direct Services back , and most of them will say , thank you we 'll keep , we 're very pleased with them .
18 Yes , I think we may be using the , because the opposing team always bring a lot of people and we never have any supporters , somehow , so erm , er we 're very pleased if people who sort of spread that about a bit .
19 She says we 're very pleased , we 're trained for this.We feel that it 's excellent that our expertise can be used in such a situation .
20 We 've succeeded on this one and we 're very pleased it 's taking place .
21 We 're very pleased and need to catch the pushers and users of crack .
22 They 're very pleased at that because I mean they obviously found it to be useful , erm we proved it to be useful and it 's nice to see them all taking on this responsibility now , now and doing it , because that 's all progress .
23 She said we 're very pleased she said to er receive the invitation .
24 I mean they 're very pleased with him because he 's the front man having appeared on the Anneka Rice thing and being kissed by Anneka Rice in the full view of millions I mean John can do no wrong by r by Johnathan I doubt it .
25 This project , we 're very pleased , is directed by Doctor Eric Briot , you may remember was the Chief Education Officer in London until he retired and came to lead this project , and a man of very great standing in education field , and what he 's looking at is the effect of the falling school populations , which is already hitting primary schools , on these large comprehensives that we 've created .
26 I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in .
27 Well , what the government has said today is that they 're giving us some money to help us to take it and boost it a bit further and we 're very pleased to see that .
28 We 're very pleased , we put in about 18 months really hard work on this , we 've er done our development funding , we 've put in our plan which is said to be one of the best plans in the country , we worked very hard , we 're very pleased .
29 We 're very pleased , we put in about 18 months really hard work on this , we 've er done our development funding , we 've put in our plan which is said to be one of the best plans in the country , we worked very hard , we 're very pleased .
30 To be honest , that would have been very easy to do , because in terms of production they 're very simple records . ’
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