Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt I must keep a very firm hold on myself if I were not to lose control altogether . |
| 2 | If I loved you , I might have a very good reason to tell you so . |
| 3 | No , no , I 'll have a very , very , very , very weak shandy . |
| 4 | I 'll have a very small piece . |
| 5 | and I think for four hundred and eighty quid I could get a very nice real computer . |
| 6 | I 'd make a very poor showing in a court . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid I 'd make a very jealous lover , Rourke . ’ |
| 8 | And I 'd keep a very careful record and it 'd be on display , the day of the fête , people would have to guess the number of matchsticks in it altogether . ’ |
| 9 | If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’ |
| 10 | In conclusion I would offer a very positive role for residential care — whether integrated or specialist but all I have said emphasises that there is no simple way forward , there are pros and cons for practically every service . |
| 11 | I would make a very powerful enemy . ’ |
| 12 | I would favour a very substantial increase in the proportion of students taking combined and joint subject degrees where Business Studies are an important element . |
| 13 | I would like a very fast , light , stiff , slightly over-canvased 38ft ( 11.5m ) yacht with simple , clean and functional accommodation . |
| 14 | It 's , it 's hard to , I think there is this erm farmland I would imagine a very very hard |
| 15 | Single motif procedures vary according to your machine , but I can do a very easy one on my Silver Reed machine by setting the machine to weaving , using an appropriate punchcard and moving the single motif cams in and out to make a big woven moon on a plain background . |
| 16 | I think you must strike a very fine balance . |
| 17 | But you must have a very special reason . |
| 18 | ‘ You must have a very inflated opinion of your own worth if you think every woman you meet is after your body . |
| 19 | In any case , the logic of the government 's case is to say that if you are a person on low income , dependent on council housing , and you happen to live in area like Oxford , which has extremely high land values , then you should pay a very high rent , and they assume that they will pay that high rent and they reduce the grant to the housing fund erm on those lines , with the consequence that the Council had no choice but to put the rents up . |
| 20 | If you now plot L N T C right , if you plot L N T C you should have a very similar graph to the one that you had before . |
| 21 | YOU may not be an overtly ambitious sign , but 1993 is a year when you should adopt a very direct approach to your goals . |
| 22 | As the lift doors opened and she stepped out into the corridor , it occurred to her that she must strike a very different figure from the wide-eyed girl who had made that first visit . |
| 23 | If you saw her at her work , you might have a very different impression of her , when that gentle , luminous quality turns to a radiant involvement with her task . |
| 24 | They 're what you might call a very catholic collection : flagellation , paedophilia , coprophilia ( sorry , I forget you 're not an aficionado — the sexual dimension of shit — J. Joyce had leanings that way ) , along with the usual nuns-and-donkeys sort of stuff . |
| 25 | ( You 'll make a very healthy corpse . ) |
| 26 | ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted . |
| 27 | Here you 'll find a very tall obelisk . |
| 28 | If you want extra cash you 'll have a very fortuitous opportunity to make more money . |
| 29 | Well done yes , ooh there she 'll make a very good Er in a wardrobe you see . |
| 30 | ‘ With your looks I should think you 'd stand a very good chance . ’ |