Example sentences of "very [adj] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brothers are very childlike and I think that Lewis Carroll is reliving part of his childhood through this chapter . |
| 2 | But it was very trying and I do n't know if it was like a part of me that was being grabbing or trying to weasel my way into David 's affections . |
| 3 | Yes , a nurse came round and she said hello Herby , she said oh you look quite bright , and I said did he play you up she said well he was very torn and I thought yeah I 'm sure he was . |
| 4 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 5 | ‘ My legs were very weak and I found it difficult to walk , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The first two Blackburn goals were very sloppy and I think Newsome was to blame . |
| 7 | But she was obviously very upset and I felt I could n't leave her . |
| 8 | And also I think , which is very strong and I think it does come out in , in the Chinese Communist Party , is the lust of power which can be even more dangerous when you convince yourself I 'll do all you lot good but I can make you all members of the Communist Party , whether you want to be or not does n't really matter , you know , it 's gon na be for the good of the country so you fall in with this trap of assuming that you want is for their good so it 's sort of a , a dangerous thing . |
| 9 | It was my first piece , and I got it in my head immediately ; I had been very depressed and I think he saved my life . ’ |
| 10 | Cos otherwise if you start doing it now then I might just pick up one person again and again , cos we will check as customers but we want you to take otherwise it gets very very confusing and I do n't wan na miss any of you . |
| 11 | ‘ It was all very emotional and I did n't handle it well at all . ’ |
| 12 | It was physically very demanding and I sweated Clifford right out of my system . |
| 13 | As I turned over in bed everything was suddenly very wet and I felt a ripple of shock as I realised what had happened . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's all been very interesting and I 've learned quite a lot of things I did n't know before . |
| 15 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 16 | Really that 's very interesting and I accept that erm I personally was do the figures include the anticipated increase which we already know ? |
| 17 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 18 | ‘ But all the people who took part were very , very brave and I have nothing but admiration for them all . |
| 19 | I 'm not very brave and I love my parents very much . |
| 20 | So there is , there is this very clear and I think very substantial protection for the middle peasant . |
| 21 | Yeah they 've got books very similar and I think they 're pricing structure 's pretty similar as well . |
| 22 | I mean he 's been known to do that because he you know what is going to happen with him commercially in his newspapers and he 's actually very clever and I mean none of us I mean okay and I think Peter might be the but I can get quite upset or intense or distressed or whatever the word is about that sort of stuff , because I am my background is journalism and I 'm quite pure about it , but we 're living in reality times here and the reality times is that he has got certain agendas . |
| 23 | Strach 's dummy was also very clever and I think 3 of the goals ( both of Speed 's and Macca 's free kick ) could be contenders for goal of the month . |
| 24 | With two excellent midwives giving advice and encouragement , was born very fast and I seemed to recover almost immediately . |
| 25 | ‘ I had worked on Doctor Who since the middle of 1963 , the work involved had been very hard and I felt exhausted . |
| 26 | and erm sometimes that is very hard and I think you can be a missionary anywhere . |
| 27 | No because I , no , I well , it 's is , I know people who say well I 've heard very little and I know that 's enough for them to have very good friends . |
| 28 | And he and my mother had a disagreement about this and er the result was that my father became very ill and I went home to Grandma . |
| 29 | Your father is very ill and I think he 's going to die . ’ |
| 30 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |