Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major made that very clear . |
| 2 | ‘ He made that very clear to everybody . |
| 3 | During my first attack I experienced some very inaccurate return fire which ceased just before I broke away . |
| 4 | At school I met another very fine person . |
| 5 | Devising and enacting appropriate remedies fitted more easily into the Labour Party 's outlook than into that of the Conservatives and they produced few very positive ideas for reform or change . |
| 6 | But when she announced in a maddeningly off-hand way that she had been deputed to look after him while Clarissa was away , she got another very swift question indeed . |
| 7 | The observers met some very good teachers who were working in very unsympathetic conditions within a school , and other teachers who were muddled in their thinking about aims , and yet others who did not know how to bring any educational or artistic guts to the drama lesson . |
| 8 | I met some very interesting people , including Fred Trueman . |
| 9 | The men asked some very technical questions and during conversation it turned out that one of them had worked on the construction of the Visitors ’ Centre and another had been employed on the construction of one of the Scottish nuclear power stations . ’ |
| 10 | The K4 heats produced some very close pairs , Finland and China , Austria and France and Portugal and Belgium . |
| 11 | ‘ How would you like it ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ if we made some very cautious experiments to see just how much you can move and push ? ’ |
| 12 | Bruce Cooper , tutor-organiser for Suffolk , made some very honest and perceptive remarks on his organising work : |
| 13 | ‘ There was a great team spirit right through the party , and I made some very lasting friendships . |
| 14 | Additionally he made some very useful contributions in loose play , and must now be a serious contender for the Lions . |
| 15 | I made a little hole , and when I reached orgasm the earth made some very heady smells — of flowers and rosemary . ’ |
| 16 | Leeds were naive in defence , provided no cover , and could have conceded a few more ( for the record though , Fairclough played very well and made some very timely interceptions ) . |
| 17 | He made some very basic country records . |
| 18 | Many years ago the club led a team into the Pyrenees to explore the possibility of wild water rivers in that area and they canoed some very exciting rivers in that region . |
| 19 | I got some very new insights , in fact I 'm going to look up to see whether Bloom 's reflections on the eunuchs in the erm church were written in the same colour as some passages in Molly Bloom 's soliloquy . |
| 20 | Well for instance a lot of people did n't even bother to erm make the kitchen floor into anything reasonable , but we did , we , we got some very good , very heavy |
| 21 | She found this very odd . |
| 22 | So desperate were we for hard news on our fellow hostages , and indeed for ourselves , that Brian and I found this very trying . |
| 23 | Almost colourless we found this very dry and a bit tart . |
| 24 | The teachers told me that they found this very helpful , and we certainly find it helpful to hear from you about what is going on in your particular professional world and how the University can make an impact there . |
| 25 | The Zande found this very perplexing and assumed , perfectly logically , that by suppressing sanctions against witches , the British were inevitably condoning and even promoting witchcraft activities ! |
| 26 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 27 | Liz found this very interesting , but did not comment on it to Esther . |
| 28 | Maidstone found this very funny . |
| 29 | A wonderful golden colour with a very clean taste , and not too dry we found this very drinkable . |
| 30 | She found this very difficult to keep to , as she had a sweet tooth and loved cakes . |