Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] very " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The answer to the latter question is that I very much doubt it .
2 " I 've been wanting to tell you , Nenna , that I very much doubt whether you 're strong enough to undertake all the work you do on Grace .
3 It was a piece of work that I very much enjoyed organising and following through to completion .
4 I assure my hon. Friend that I very much look forward to visiting his constituency and to meeting some of the industrialists whose interests he energetically represents .
5 I also place it on record that I very much welcomed the Minister 's attitude in Committee .
6 Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party .
7 What is perhaps most curious about the characterization of Margery after the trick has been played is that she very soon drops all reference to — and therefore seems to be portrayed as forgetting — the threat she believes the clerk to pose .
8 Thanks to all the readers who replied , and thanks for the nice things that you very often said .
9 We have learned , for example , that when you think of your University days , your department and your friends feature most frequently in your thoughts ; that you prefer the idea of reunions of your department or your contemporaries to University-wide events ; that you like the idea of the regional ‘ roadshows ’ ; and that you very much want to know where all your old friends are and what they 're up to now .
10 ‘ I would say that you very much belong here .
11 I hope that you very much enjoy your well earned rest and that Christmas is a happy time for you and your family .
12 Mr that you very much indeed for joining us on the programme this morning .
13 That you very much Mr I 've got Mr followed by Mr .
14 Does the right hon. Gentleman understand that we very much welcome his commitment to taking the path of democracy regardless of where it leads ?
15 Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp .
16 er we built our business by word of mouth introductions er which means that we very rarely advertise .
17 Those who dismissed the movies were also dishonest in the sense that they very rarely conceded that the whole tone of feature films had been moulded by politicians and largely middle-class pressure groups and religious organizations who had ceaselessly clamoured for censorship and for films to be morally edifying and uplifting .
18 This was just an excuse : the real reason they wanted to come was that they very much needed food at home .
19 I know that the Labour party is likely to conduct a vendetta against part-time workers , many of whom are women , although when women are asked what they think about part-time work , they reply that they very much appreciate it .
20 Battells have also pointed out that they very often receive separate orders from the same areas and it is suggested that to save on carriage etc .
21 If the tradition still exists today — and it appears that it very much does so — it implies that the United Kingdom does not have for many loyalists a natural character of statehood in the way the Southern state has for catholic nationalists .
22 This man was not to know that it very nearly was , by Auguste 's reckoning .
23 The Major had told us that he was plagued with poachers , particularly since the new road had been driven up the hill from the Aberfeldy side ; and that he very much doubted if there were any fish left in Loch a'Chait .
24 That he very rarely said he loved you rang a warning bell , as did the fact that you appeared to think he spent his time alone if he was n't with you .
25 The intrusive Boswell then took another liberty — ; that of pointing out to Johnson ‘ that he very often sat quite silent for a long time , even when in company with only a single friend ’ , at which Johnson reminded Boswell of an acquaintance who had once observed , ‘ Sir , you are like a ghost : you never speak till you are spoken to . ’
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