Example sentences of "very [adj] but it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were very discreet but it looked to me like an assignation . ’ |
| 2 | In another he found old shoes piled high on rusty tables and there was one room he thought very odd but it made him smile . |
| 3 | This was right up the top and there were a tiny attic bedroom thing was made into a not very salubrious but it had a cooker and a sink . |
| 4 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 5 | All this may strike us as very patronising but it reveals at least as much concern about the welfare , and rehabilitation , of prisoners as the incarceration policies of the present day . |
| 6 | Oh yes very small but it 's got very big now you know . |
| 7 | Academically , this test is not very accurate but it does have some value as a rough comparative test between different materials . |
| 8 | This may all sound very trivial but it has the effect of making me almost hate my body to the extent that I feel ashamed to let John see me naked . |
| 9 | I mean , the penknife you gave me for Christmas was very nice but it does n't cut things . |
| 10 | Colin Calderwood says that everywhere you go people stop and wave and that 's very nice but it 's been good to get away this week but now they 're back in town the pressure will start to build |
| 11 | Private motor business remains very competitive but it has been necessary to apply further selective premium increases . |