Example sentences of "[verb] very [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I moved very slowly out of unconsciousness — not into consciousness , but into delirium .
2 The hare came very slowly out of the shadows of the tunnel .
3 I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment .
4 ‘ However the discussion happily turned very soon on to the question of procedure , ’ Amery recorded , ‘ and the desirability , in which we all concurred , of the statement being so framed as to avoid our being pushed into a general election this autumn . ’
5 To be fair , there is no doubt that with luck , commonsense and sensible advice many people have done very well out of privatisation shares .
6 In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies .
7 They 've done very well out of that parcel of land that was given .
8 I think if the road was drawn very closely in to the greenbelt edge then that could have an effect on development pressures and it could lead to pressures for erm some er amendment the greenbelt boundary in in the future erm of plan making processes .
9 She began to walk very slowly back towards the house .
10 What does n't react very well out of that lot ?
11 Therefore the total water volume of your aquarium ( 100 litres ) should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and the water should flow very gently back into the aquarium , avoiding strong currents and surface turbulence .
12 A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain .
13 One married couple in particular expected to do very well out of it .
14 He wanted to write something which would be profoundly true and he would have liked to have corrected the image of Modigliani which developed very early on in a number of dubious publications .
15 As soluble nitrate travels very slowly down from the surface into aquifers , present changes in water quality stem from changes in land use many years ago .
16 Possibly started very early on by Pope Symmachus , it had been added to by Pope Eugenius III in the twelfth century .
17 It was driven very carefully back to Llandudno Junction shed where it was stored out of steam for a couple of days until the powers decided what to do .
18 He reached for a half loaf of bread with both hands and said , by the six hairs of his grandmother 's beard , they were doing very well out of all this .
19 Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it .
20 Erm but without that as long as it 's the masses who are committing this it 's , it 's okay because you , you need that in order to create the When it 's gone too far , when it 's counter-productive in a , not for the individual middl poor peasant because he 's doing very well out of it , but in terms of the movement as a whole , you begin to stop it .
21 Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ?
22 ‘ I feel very early on in my forming as an actor .
23 Release immediately if the towplane goes out of sight , or you become very badly out of position .
24 And major differences emerged very early on between the English and European movements .
25 This means that very few particles can escape from a black hole as large as the one hypothesized to exist in Cygnus X-I , but that particles can leak very rapidly out of smaller black holes .
26 It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one .
27 We were within 5,000 votes and I think when people see how nearly effective the amount of tactical voting was and when they see the Tory support slipping , they will come very strongly over to us .
28 We had given them the prospect of an out in the five years and they did very well out of their investment . ’
29 Naturally , some of these investors , particularly those who were speculating in the more unpredictable ventures , lost money , but by and large the European and American ‘ coupon clippers ’ as they were sometimes called , did very well out of their overseas investments .
30 Did very nicely out of it , too . ’
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