Example sentences of "very [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the blockading squadrons very rarely saw the French they had daily and hourly to struggle with rope and canvas and timber which stretched and broke and rotted . |
| 2 | We very rarely saw the governor — especially late afternoon or evening — and there was a lot of hustle and bustle . |
| 3 | It was something very rarely seen in Britain , or in other democracies : an emergency government — or , in Hoare 's words , ‘ an emergency Committee of public Safety ’ , formed for a specific purpose , and intended to last for a specific period of time . |
| 4 | He was a mysterious man who wandered about the house at all hours but was very rarely seen . |
| 5 | Chancroid is generally less common than it used to be , and is very rarely seen in Northern Europe , although it still poses problems in Asia and parts of Africa . |
| 6 | Very rarely seen away from Iceland . |
| 7 | While I will grant you that it beats filing for the Inland Revenue , it is a suitcase existence and no matter how glamorous the location of the meeting we very rarely see beyond the airport , the hotel and the stadium . |
| 8 | But y you very rarely see it now , and I should like to know when these gullies are being emptied , and what the programme is ? |
| 9 | As a result , the female working-class role was very much seen as one of maintaining the family and here was her emotional and sexual destiny . |
| 10 | Yeah , thanks very much see you at . |
| 11 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 12 | Certainly so far as we are concerned we would completely recognise your position and we are in fact , since your position is shared by several other experts in their respective fields who have been good enough to assist us in this venture , doing our very best to see that the names of those who are taking part in the policy study groups do not become public property . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ My son , my body is returning to my mother earth , and my spirit is going very soon to see the Great Spirit … |
| 14 | Your colleague ? ’ said Pamella , bemused , trying to remember who Stuart White was , and then , when it came back to her who Stuart White was , and what he 'd given her ( £500 ) and what she 'd done ( which was n't much ) and what he 'd done ( which she does n't remember being precisely , exactly , what he later said that he 'd done ) she very rapidly saw what they meant , screamed , shut the door and hit the phone . |
| 15 | If you looked at the Trees ' upper halves ; at the streaming leaf-hair and the mischievous faces of the Silver Birches and the wise , implacable solemnity of the Oaks and the cool , wanton beauty of the Beeches , you could very nearly see similarities to Human features and Human characteristics . |
| 16 | After the war Truman very wisely saw the value of continuing this Anglo/American cooperation with the signing of the UK-USA Treaty in 1947 . |
| 17 | I think we might need to look at that one very carefully to see whether it adds anything to the er criteria . |
| 18 | My subject — civil engineering — is very often seen as divisible into quite separate ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ elements . |
| 19 | But erm the comradeship there , I mean you very often see chappies now I d know them from the Home Guard , but otherwise I should n't have known them . |
| 20 | It 's a funny thing , but when you see a client about something you very often see him soon again about something else . |
| 21 | Oh yes very very often see him . |
| 22 | Yeah you never very often see a golliwog do you ? |
| 23 | You do n't very often see that do you ? |
| 24 | It is very well seen with × 20 . |
| 25 | I can very well see such prices going down and down and down well certainly to several hundred pounds . |
| 26 | And so I wrote in to Radio Brighton , and Doctor Wisbey very kindly saw my son and confirmed that he was , in fact , dyslexic . |
| 27 | ‘ We will be studying this programme very closely to see if it crosses over that legal line . |
| 28 | anything , there 's nothing in there which does , just a few er telephone lines er , going across the skyline there but they 're very faint , you can hardly see them , you 've got ta look very closely to see them . |
| 29 | Another sucker , the capsid bug , is very seldom seen . |
| 30 | because er well I er I , as I and I 've got young neighbours who I very seldom see because they are out at work er therefore I am quiet and that 's how I like to be |