Example sentences of "very [num ord] [noun] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know one of the very first things I noticed and liked in you , was the way you shook one 's hand , and looked straight at one as you said goodbye . |
| 2 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah the very first school I went to was quite disciplined . |
| 4 | ‘ The very first night I played with him , he 's up there blowing and he walks over to me and says , ‘ Play somethin' , Robben . ’ |
| 5 | He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ . |
| 6 | From the very first day I enjoyed it . |
| 7 | From the very first day I saw him I began writing poems to him that later grouped themselves into the sequence entitled ‘ Suite Salmantina ’ which , with other poems about Spain , forms the central part of my collection called The Prodigal Son : Poems 1956–1959 . |
| 8 | I still have the very first letter I wrote from home : ‘ Please Mam , say you love me and bring me home ’ . |
| 9 | I 've loved you from the very first moment I saw you . |
| 10 | Dana 's words struck at my heart , as he had done , quite deliberately , when he had told me : ‘ The very first time I saw you , I knew you were gay . ’ |
| 11 | The very first time I saw him he stopped on his way to the front door , three , maybe four in the morning . |
| 12 | The very first time I saw you around I only said hello and I said hi . |
| 13 | The very first time I met him , we lunched in downtown Barcelona with his first wife , Susy . |
| 14 | I remember ( the very first time I met him ) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all . |
| 15 | The very first time I worked for Heather Wilkinson was just before my thirteenth birthday . |
| 16 | ‘ I remember the very first piece I wrote I sent to a friend during the war , ’ Mr. Johnson told the Herald . |
| 17 | In the very first episode I did , we fitted that onto a wobbling camera tracking in ( today you 'd call it a hand-held shot ) and , together with a sucker cup sticking out into shot , it gave you an impression of the thing lumbering towards Barbara down a passage . |
| 18 | The very next day I started ferreting around in the woods and came upon the most magnificent fortress of a sett . |
| 19 | In the very next group I chanced upon that guy , you know the one , he used to read the weather on TVS a few years back , grey hair , quite tall , you know , John something . |
| 20 | ‘ The very next job I did after Butterflies was a Greek tragedy at a theatre in Leatherhead ’ , says Andrew . |
| 21 | The very next morning I arose and , without any premeditation , any thought at all , for the first time in adulthood I went though my morning toilet not noting the precise conformity of my actions to the schema of habit . |
| 22 | Until the very last minute I had had no idea it could happen . |
| 23 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Believe me , she was the very last person I wanted to see . ’ |
| 25 | In fact , it was just about the very last thing I thought would ever happen . |
| 26 | The company 's the very last thing I want to get my hands on right now , and you know it ! ’ |
| 27 | The very last thing I note is which direction a swim faces and for this I carry a small compass . |
| 28 | That 's the very last thing I need to do . |