Example sentences of "very [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he very rarely said he loved you rang a warning bell , as did the fact that you appeared to think he spent his time alone if he was n't with you . |
| 2 | People very rarely say what they mean but you 're the exception and it 's important to remember that . |
| 3 | Refugee recipients had very little say in the administration of services and were insufficiently encouraged to do so . |
| 4 | In some societies parents do select the marriage partner for their children , but we have very little say in the partners our children choose , however strongly we may feel on the subject . |
| 5 | It is often not appreciated , at least in the U.K. that the medical profession has had very little say in the major decisions about the design of the health services . |
| 6 | Patients are at the bottom of the pecking order and have very little say in the running of services . |
| 7 | I think they have very little say from the point of diagnosis to treatment of anything . |
| 8 | Wendy , whose baby was due very soon said she was keen but her husband was n't . |
| 9 | ‘ She was starin' at me so rudely , ’ Lou recounted one day , ‘ I very nearly said , ‘ Wait a minute , I 'll get a basin for your eyes ’ . ’ |
| 10 | Thanks to all the readers who replied , and thanks for the nice things that you very often said . |
| 11 | People who were questioned as to why they listened to him during the war very often said they found him ‘ good for a laugh ’ . |
| 12 | But it was its political and artistic daring , enhanced by the most attractively human of values , that the rest of us so admired — ‘ those little films ’ , someone very accurately said , ‘ which are , as if by accident , important . ’ |
| 13 | Er Mr Potter this morning very fairly said to this erm t to the panel that if you do his need assessment which i if you got to the the exercise and stretch every parameter to its very limits , be as generous as you can on every possible criterion , you can get to an allocation for Selby of a hundred and twenty two hectares . |
| 14 | The day after that , a man came in and very loudly said that he had no time for God , but he wanted a colouring book for the children of his Greek neighbours , to show his acceptance of them . |
| 15 | Very well said ! |
| 16 | ‘ All very well to say . |
| 17 | You ca n't very well say , Oh , I forget . |
| 18 | I can say " This is a cherry " and everyone understands what I mean , but I can not very well say " This is an offspring " without committing a grammatical impropriety , except perhaps as a contextually forgivable elipsis when it is already clear whose offspring is being talked about . |
| 19 | The Rainfords joined them and Maggie supposed that Felipe could not very well say no . |
| 20 | You might very well say that you were the greatest law lecturer in the world , because people tend to say these things about themselves . |
| 21 | But then she could n't very well say , oh no , could she ? |
| 22 | ‘ When you wake someone up , you very simply say , |
| 23 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 24 | I 've rather doubt that he might not be and , and then Bert er , has very kindly said that he would erm , stand in for him to second this resolution . |
| 25 | ‘ My dear , that was very graciously said . |
| 26 | Thank you sir erm in that the government and the opposition front bench want to move this measure erm fulfilling their commitments to the Maastricht treaty , I accept the methodology and the precedent that the government cites , I think that 's appropriate , erm I just wanted to very briefly say that this is of course a vote no longer like the generality of the population voting for the membership of a golf club in which we have varying degrees of er interest . |
| 27 | The basis of our decision before was my people work very closely say take with the national account people in right , and the main objective there is to get as much business from the corporate accounts as they 're responsible for like or whoever . |
| 28 | There 's been an article in the paper very recently saying they 're going to bring out some proposals to change those intestacy rules shortly after easter they have n't come out yet . |