Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example the task could be to produce a news item which would amuse the audience , or which would surprise the audience , or which would make them very happy . |
| 2 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 3 | ‘ The code for America is 0101 and it will make me very rich . ’ |
| 4 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 5 | ‘ The sooner this business is done , Master Clerk , the sooner you are gone and that will make me very happy ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What the sack did was make me very determined that next time round that I 'd do a better job . |
| 7 | I promised , so if we give my parents some money towards the expenses it will make me very happy . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It would make me very jealous and insecure . ’ |
| 9 | For example , it would make me very happy if I could see you every night across my dinner table ; if when I woke in the morning , I would hear you wish me ‘ Bonjour , chéri ! ’ in that so charming accent of yours . |
| 10 | Still thinking that my drink was spiked in Kansas does n't make me very trusting . |
| 11 | My little Shelley , you are the only woman I have ever met who can make me very happy . |
| 12 | You know like , if I 'm really thirsty , I could just gulp down a glass of water or a glass of orange , just like that , but with fizzy drinks , I do n't know , I ca n't swallow them very easily , just sort of er , |
| 13 | ‘ If you think I 'll fall for that , you must think me very stupid indeed . |
| 14 | You must think me very gauche . " |
| 15 | You must think me very silly but it 's just that I 'm so excited ! |
| 16 | I ca n't think why pure-voiced sopranos like Emma Kirkby have n't also taken it up ; it would suit them very well . |
| 17 | It would suit them very well to have the tenancy of the house for at least another year . |
| 18 | Some women may find it hard to talk about safer sex with new partners , simply because they do n't know them very well . |
| 19 | Rostov thought about Alexei 's behaviour and wondered if it was human nature for sons to hate their fathers , even when they did not know them very well . |
| 20 | But if it was perhaps even a little one your own age if you did n't know them very well it would be you . |
| 21 | I do n't know them very well . |
| 22 | He said slowly , ‘ You do n't know me very well , Lissa , or you would understand that I do n't take kindly to facing the wrong end of a pair of shears . |
| 23 | ‘ What you 're saying , then , is that you do n't feel at ease with me , because you do n't know me very well . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Ah , but you do n't know me very well , Leonora . ’ |
| 25 | The notice board went up outside the pub today and Charles will update them very week . |
| 26 | He adores humans and he does n't catch them very often . |
| 27 | ‘ He does n't know you very well if he thinks that , ’ she said faintly . |
| 28 | And really , I do n't know you very well , do I ? ’ |
| 29 | Even with a substantial sum , the money available can buy you very different amounts of contact with the public : in conventional media analysis terms of coverage of adults and opportunities to see ( OTS ) an ad , £300000 could buy you , nationally , in early 1992 , the ‘ campaigns ’ in the main media which are shown in Table 10.1 . |
| 30 | " I think , " she said , " that he will suit you very well . " |