Example sentences of "he [verb] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 2 | When Dr A B Granville published his famous and best-selling guidebook , The Spas of England in 1841 , he made very clear in the opening chapters of his mammoth work his distaste for what he regarded as ‘ the lower orders of society ’ . |
| 3 | I say to the hon. Member for Dagenham what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) said about his speech , which is that he made very heavy weather . |
| 4 | He made very sure she got pregnant . |
| 5 | In fairness to Keith , he realised very quickly that he lacked the requisite qualities and threw in the towel . |
| 6 | He knew nothing , and he cared very little about film . |
| 7 | He did it because he wanted to , because he was n't going to be her victim , and because he cared very much for Arthur . |
| 8 | Yet while he did n't much care about the outcome of Plainsong , except in a generally patriotic sense , he cared very much that it should n't fail in any way that would leave a vindictive Foreign Office with a load of blame to distribute . |
| 9 | Never one to believe in quick or facile solutions , he cared very much about the national welfare ; and as he was one of the few British writers whose word carried any weight with the authorities — in contrast to such authors as Priestley who carried more weight with the public through his remarkable war-time broadcasts — he gave the impression of a certain helplessness in face of government policy which appeared to lack resolution . |
| 10 | And it used to be very fashionable to say that Thucydides was much the better of these two historians , he was describing erm a war in which he himself took part , he weighed the evidence very carefully , erm he produced very incisive statements about individuals and about problems , and that Herodotus had a lot of myth in what he wrote , and he was more wide-ranging , and he did n't really have the same standards of truth that Thucydides had had . |
| 11 | It can not be said , on the other hand , that he goes very deep or that we can ever take the idea of Michael 's art very seriously . |
| 12 | Whilst sociological analysis is basic within Kuhn 's account , he offers very little in the way of sociological theory and offers no suggestions of how acceptable and unacceptable ways of reaching a consensus are to be distinguished . |
| 13 | The last thing he wanted was to turn himself into a do-gooder , but he realized very quickly that most of the volunteers were genuinely and sincerely opening their hearts and homes . |
| 14 | He became very nervous , and was glad to see Odd-Knut come home . |
| 15 | He became very fearful of cars , buses and stairs , eventually shutting himself in his room , with the curtains drawn , for 14 months . |
| 16 | The story of how Nobel produced dynamite by stabilising nitroglycerin ( by mixing with kieselguhr ) is skilfully told , while readers are left in no doubt that he became very disillusioned when his explosives were used for warfare . |
| 17 | After eating a small square of chocolate he became very aggressive and rushed around the house frantically banging doors and kicking furniture . |
| 18 | I do know that he became very depressed when the times were bad and he had the mortgage payments to meet . |
| 19 | He was the man of the house , you see , since my father was dead , and he became very strict when I was around fourteen or fifteen . |
| 20 | He became very depressed for some time before he could reassess himself , start to use his considerable abilities and begin courting his wife again . |
| 21 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 22 | He loved theatre so much that he became very angry if it were bad . |
| 23 | He became very bitter and cursed the medical profession . |
| 24 | Within twenty-four hours of starting to take the drug he became very nearly himself again — his very nicest self , gentle , amusing and above all calm . |
| 25 | He became very quiet . |
| 26 | Afterwards he became very ill and had difficulty breathing and could not walk at all . |
| 27 | 10 And he became very hungry , and would have eaten : but while they made ready , he fell into a trance . |
| 28 | He became very protective towards Minton and was quick to deliver a Grimsby left-hook if anyone was rude to the older man in his presence . |
| 29 | He became very aggressive to any other fish that came near his cave entrance . |
| 30 | In September 1848 he became very ill . |