Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mehrabad , as previously mentioned , was attacked at the very beginning of the war . |
| 2 | The cells are lost from the tips of the folds and the stem cells are located at the very base of the folds . |
| 3 | Located at the very heart of San Francisco on Union Square , this elegant and historic hotel is arguably San Francisco 's finest , and offers a wide range of facilities and excellent accommodation to the discerning traveller . |
| 4 | No , she had not wanted that , not Papa 's shrewd eyes on her ; she had shivered at the very thought . |
| 5 | Referring to the customer , he said : ‘ He was committed at the very moment that he put his money into the machine . |
| 6 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 7 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 8 | The Coroner was in his early forties , a gaunt , greying man , with thick spectacles perched at the very end of his nose . |
| 9 | It should be harnessed at the very moment . ’ |
| 10 | The rig change is done at the very end of the turn which will involve a few seconds of clew first sailing |
| 11 | Best done at the very start of an investigation . |
| 12 | Fabia gasped , appalled at the very idea . |
| 13 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |
| 14 | I was reading Mauriac the other day : the Mémoires intérieurs , written at the very end of his life . |
| 15 | Restrop was built at the very height of the great Elizabethan age , when the craft of building began to turn into an art . |
| 16 | What must be accepted at the very basis of any enquiry is that it is not , as Taylor puts it , " a command , as in conventional search strategy , but rather as a description of an area of doubt in which the question is open-ended , negotiable and dynamic . " |
| 17 | Admittedly , this last complaint , made at the very start of the chapter , is harsher than it sounds . |
| 18 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 19 | This was seen at the very moment of James V 's death . |
| 20 | This splendid though rather whimsical riverside house was built as a granary , conveniently positioned at the very head of the navigable part of the River Cam along which barges laden with corn could travel from King 's Lynn and the fenland farming areas . |
| 21 | Mr Michael King , regional secretary for the association , said it would provide accommodation where it was needed at the very bottom of the housing ladder . |
| 22 | The band performed at the very peak of their live power and the volatile Scottish crowds responded accordingly . |
| 23 | Thus eclecticism is avoided at the very stage in the process where it is most needed . |
| 24 | It 's from both of them , repeated verbatim despite the howls of protest raised at the very idea of it all . |
| 25 | Nevertheless it is worth considering whether some implicit model of accountability underlies all forms of evaluation whatever their stated purposes ( an issue that was raised at the very beginning of Chapter 1 ) . |
| 26 | The wee man is a shining example to all pros , played at the very top for all his career , and has a very sound tactical brain . |
| 27 | Striptease … is based on a contradiction : Woman is desexualised at the very moment when she is stripped naked . |
| 28 | A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign . |
| 29 | Saxe-Weimar had arrived at the very nick of time . |
| 30 | ‘ Besides , as Mona will tell you , I 've reformed at the very idea of being put in clink for treason or whatever they call it . |