Example sentences of "[verb] and it [be] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 2 | As a matter of fact , the hunt is a very ineffectual way of controlling foxes , er they record the number they kill and it 's very , very few , a tiny percentage of the number of foxes there are in the countryside clever foxes er , as indeed I think Mrs mentioned , live in towns nowadays er , but there are still quite a lot in the countryside fortunately and they will survive er , though zoologists tell us er that er by instinct er they see that their numbers are controlled . |
| 3 | Rehearsals are over , the audience arrives and it 's very nearly the moment of truth for David and Fiona from Wiltshire about to play Blockbusters . |
| 4 | Rehearsals are over , the audience arrives and it 's very nearly the moment of truth for David and Fiona from Wiltshire about to play Blockbusters . |
| 5 | It is news management by ministers which is suspected and it is very difficult to prove . ’ |
| 6 | obviously very well received and it 's very nice to have met |
| 7 | It is expensive to buy food that children do not eat and it is very easy for the mother to fall into the trap of offering the child only what she thinks the child still likes . |
| 8 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 9 | There was not a lot of the ship left to see and it was very cold , below zero in fact . |
| 10 | Food was still rationed and it was very much a question of making the best use of available resources and we had absolutely unlimited demand — a very false situation as it turned out when you think about what happened to British industry afterwards . |
| 11 | That is what Magnus says about girls he does n't like and it 's very funny . |
| 12 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 13 | But I agree with Stuart , I think what we 've got be careful is that if we 're gon na introduce something , it is actually erm capable of being enforced and it 's very difficult to see us an enforcing agent . |
| 14 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 15 | By then it had started to rain and it was very cold along the coast . |
| 16 | And one of the features of the current policy is that affordable supply is partly a matter to be negotiated and it 's very important that it 's negotiated out of the general er supply made by private sector builders . |
| 17 | I do n't drink and it 's very difficult to shut out the stresses of the day . |
| 18 | ‘ My aunt in America sent us a photo of herself in a black dress after Grandad died and it was very plain . |
| 19 | So I did and it 's very strange I remember toddling off with this little chap and er and Miss said , Who is this then ? or words to that effect . |
| 20 | Well , it was something that should n't have happened and it 's very regrettable , without a doubt , very regrettable . |
| 21 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 22 | ‘ There is only around five tonnes of newsprint left and it 's very difficult getting supplies into Sarajevo . |