Example sentences of "[noun] very [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am surprised that another of my predecessors — I choose my words very carefully — should show such ignorance about the small business sector . |
| 2 | " A man who wants to talk at large about smoke may have to pick his words very carefully if he wants to exclude the suggestion that there is also a fire : but it can be done . " |
| 3 | Not only was the gentleman 's intonation unmistakably genteel , but he was slurring his words very slightly . |
| 4 | The poetic canzone was a strophic form , like the musical frottola in which the same music was commonly fitted to each quatrain or tercet , carrying the words very distinctly but without reflecting their specific sense . |
| 5 | Wearing a rather absurd black tasselled fez , an army officer 's uniform jacket , riding breeches and a black shirt , he delivered his speech slowly , articulating the words very clearly . |
| 6 | President Gorbachev , he said , had ‘ spoken clear words very cautiously . |
| 7 | This program gives you the means of learning a core of around 500 foreign words very quickly . |
| 8 | Same when I 'm , when I 'm in Italy , I , I ca n't speak Italian very well , but when I 'm there a week , I pick up words very quickly and although I know my grammar is n't perfect , I can form sentences in a way that people do understand me , . |
| 9 | Yesterday Mr David Trippier , the Environment Minister , announced in a Commons written reply to Mr Neil Hamilton ( C. Tatton ) that Mr Chris Patten , the Environment Secretary , had ‘ considered the question of the Three Graces very carefully following a request from the Office of Arts and Libraries for a view as to whether the statue was included in the listing of Woburn Abbey ’ . |
| 10 | She closed her friend 's hand around them and , without letting go , pressed her dry lips very hard against Delia 's forehead . |
| 11 | I also feel that in ‘ Futility ’ Owen uses emotion very well and gives a very good impression of his feeling which I feel is slightly lacking in a couple of his other poems . |
| 12 | Betty Maitland very obligingly looked up Danny Ram on the payroll ( his name was actually Danyatai Ram ) and told Robyn that he worked in the foundry . |
| 13 | The author of Fishbase obviously takes his fishing very seriously indeed . |
| 14 | Fishing very hard . |
| 15 | In many respects , the Declaration of Rights satisfied Tory-Anglican anxieties very well . |
| 16 | The officers on part of the panel have consulted schools very carefully about the last remnants of possible delegation which might arise and the recommendations are as presented to us in red , set out in section three . |
| 17 | So we wo n't be tied down to schools very much longer . |
| 18 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 19 | George turned the ignition key very slowly and jumped when the engine started . |
| 20 | What about up in the corner there there 's er Cos what we 've launched into in the last er nine months very heavily er |
| 21 | ‘ Well , let me know when you 're off , ’ Bernard told her , ‘ because we 're going to open in the States very shortly . |
| 22 | Morrissey , noted for his over-sensitive nature , was n't taking the Christmas necessities very seriously . |
| 23 | Robert Beaumont , earl of Leicester like his father before him , was a man barely a year past forty , squarely built and no more than medium tall , dark of hair and darker of eyes , rich but sombre in his attire , and carrying the habit of command very lightly , not overstressed , for there was no need . |
| 24 | The firm introduced Signet , a tailor-made computer system which has made financial accounting very much faster and also handles word processing requirements . |
| 25 | In Masailand neither of these considerations very obviously applied . |
| 26 | ‘ The work-force can pick out a fraud very easily or someone who 's just glossing things over . |
| 27 | It was not : for , as we have seen , organised labour very soon and consciously became the necessary reciprocal to employing capital and so constituted with it the developed system which had yet to be called Capitalism . |
| 28 | The impression you get in the book is not that Freud had erm some animosity against Moses the way he had against Woodrow Wilson , he was quite open about it in the Woodrow Wilson book , but that Freud is an intelligent erm believer in science , who nevertheless takes religion very seriously because of its psychological truth . |
| 29 | When an agent telephones the company with an order , the computer operator is able to tell the agent very quickly whether the goods required are in stock . |
| 30 | Yet they were here today in gratifying numbers , a double row of Larks looking very bronzed and weathered from striding over those ancestral acres , which men like her husband and Lizzie Braithwaite 's husband could never possess ; and their cousin , Colonel Covington-Pym , Master of Foxhounds , with his rather glorious , highly intimidating wife , a tall , red-haired woman who could be seen in Frizingley sometimes wearing a black riding-habit so tight that she must have been stitched into it — Linnet said — and mounted on a colossus of a horse very nearly the same colour as her hair . |