Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [art] very [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I found it a very compassionate account of the unrewarding role filled by many in today 's ever-divorcing society .
2 They behaved towards me as they would to anyone else and I found it a very valuable exposure .
3 I owe you a very great personal debt . ’
4 I find it a very useful thing , and I am as bad as the next person at chatting merrily away with little thought of time or the expense of it .
5 She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was .
6 I gave her a very light anaesthetic — there should be some response from her reflexes by now . ’
7 I gave him a very expurgated version of the first visit , the week before , and made Conchis and Bourani as dull as possible .
8 To those who asked him what he thought of Hitler now , he replied , ‘ I think him a very fine fellow . ’
9 I wish you a very good evening , , replied Quintin .
10 That is one of the roles of your Association and it is what your membership fees go towards and it is there to be used and they 've done their best so I hope it will come in very useful for you for this year and I wish you a very good year .
11 And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ
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