Example sentences of "very [adv] and [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former steel boss recalls that he was able to assimilate the theoretical aspects of senior management very quickly and implement them in an almost academic fashion . |
| 2 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 3 | If you do , you must lift them very carefully and stack them ready to use again . |
| 4 | If the children are already working well , perhaps all you need to do is to enter very briefly and present them with a stimulus : " I 'm trying to arrange a birthday party for my nieces and nephews ; could you help me organise it . " |
| 5 | Police treated the letters very seriously and concluded they came from a ‘ disturbed clergyman , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ The contributors we had are all kind of double-0-seven , cloak-and-dagger types ’ , explained Krishna Littledale , one of the enticers of funds ; ‘ … if you talk very quietly and tell them they ca n't tell anyone about this conference , they will give you a lot more money . ’ |