Example sentences of "[pers pn] be very " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train . |
| 2 | I happen to believe that many of them are very well documented , even proved . |
| 3 | More seriously , he noted : ‘ From observations with one or two people I find that some of them are very scared of the 109s and morale could be better . |
| 4 | Some of them are very good . |
| 5 | Most of them are very reputable , but do be cautious about promises which sound too good to be true . |
| 6 | Making the assumption that such men have working-class occupations , Sullivan argues that the housing options for them are very limited after divorce , more limited than for women who , if they have been left as single parents relying upon state benefits for their income , probably will qualify for local authority housing . |
| 7 | So many of them are very insecure because of the nature of the business of the city . |
| 8 | A lot of them treat you more as a sort of friend and an equal rather than looking down … there 's a few teachers who treat you like a child rather than like themselves , but most of them are very friendly … well , I think it 's mainly because they 're younger teachers … and there 's not such a great age gap , you know . |
| 9 | Most of them are very much smaller . |
| 10 | Some of them are very good indeed but it is unlikely that they will have been given the opportunity to develop skills in such highly specialised areas as industrial photography , beauty photography or still life . |
| 11 | And therefore for for various reasons their interest in driving , in most cases , not all , cos I mean some of them are very good , but in most cases their interest in driving i is is limited to what they 're gon na do in their time off . |
| 12 | Some of them are very pretty and cosy , and the majority have TV and a stereo system , ’ she explained . |
| 13 | Some of them are very good-looking . ’ |
| 14 | It would be impossible to tell the results apart but the methods used to achieve them are very different . |
| 15 | ‘ Some of them are very good and quite useful , but it ‘ s a selfish existence . ’ |
| 16 | Again , fleeces provide the most versatile mid-layer , though few of them are very effective at keeping out the wind . |
| 17 | Most of them are very courteous and we have n't minded them having a quick look round , but some are less welcome . |
| 18 | And the people who can play them are very clever indeed . |
| 19 | I believe some of the things we have to share with the Europeans and learn from them are very urgent in Britain at the moment . |
| 20 | ‘ Some of them are very good . |
| 21 | In what follows the main ideas of these models are discussed in general terms and the implications of allowing expectations to be rational within them are very briefly mentioned . |
| 22 | Some of them are very frightened people . ’ |
| 23 | Experience of starting groups in other parishes has shown that men are very shy about offering their services but some of our handicapped friends are men , and some of them are very physically handicapped , so we need some strong people in each group . |
| 24 | Some of them are absolute rubbish some of them are very very very good . |
| 25 | Some of them are very , very frail and they really get something out of the music , ’ said Mr Harper who likes nothing better than a foot-tapping , clapping and smiling congregation . |
| 26 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 27 | ‘ Sean and I are very much alike , ’ he said . |
| 28 | In the autumn of 1969 the book on the Americans was published in London and New York under the title Very Lovely People ( from a remark of President Johnson to some White House visitors — ‘ Mrs Johnson and I are very happy to have you here , and we think you are all very lovely people ’ ) . |
| 29 | When I woke up I was almost as amazed by the fair hair as I was by the sex , because both his ‘ father ’ and I are very dark . |
| 30 | My husband and I are very worried about AIDS and we are wondering if the children are at risk , let alone our daughter , who says she and our son-in-law led a normal married life until he dropped this bombshell . |