Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clad in a sparkly jacket and a long black skirt , wreathed in silly string and clumps and strands of paper streamers from party poppers , her long hair bunned , she enveloped me in a very friendly kiss , breathing whisky and wine fumes . |
| 2 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |
| 3 | Later in my life — ça sera pour un autre jour — birds led me into a very unusual experience . |
| 4 | ‘ This got me into the very comfortable American hospital , where I was well pampered . |
| 5 | Not necessarily — the expert fishkeeper could design a system that would take the best of all possible filtration methods and effectively combine them into a very good system . |
| 6 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |
| 7 | They will be greeted by local communities in East Anglia who have made arrangements to provide them with a very special welcome . |
| 8 | You 've caught me at a very late lunch . |
| 9 | In September 1316 Edward retained him for a very large fee in return for the promise of his service with a commensurately large retinue ; and shortly afterwards he and Pembroke set off for the papal curia on a mission which had the repeal of the Ordinances as one of its objectives . |
| 10 | They argue that , for Whitehouse in particular , though after the war her formal ties with the Oxford Group diminished , her years of close association with it provided her with a very clear intellectual approach to the perceived ills of the modern world . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's kind of you to make me so welcome , ’ she said , dazzling him with a very personal smile . |
| 12 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 13 | Allison Hillhouse , the Scottish director of Action for Smoking and Health , which backed Mr McTear 's legal action , described him as a very brave man and said his death was a sad event to everyone . |
| 14 | Barbara Coleman stopped pouring and fixed her with a very severe look . |
| 15 | That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization . |
| 16 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
| 17 | If ever we had to be away for a night , Shanti used to go to spend the night at Mavis 's house , and regarded it as a very great treat . |
| 18 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 19 | Place it in a very cool oven , gas no . |
| 20 | But the thought that a credit card company — or some sleazy store — might one day reveal the contents of my shopping bag to the nation ( or , more particularly , to my husband ) fills me with a very real dread . |
| 21 | I made some new pots and put them in a very hot fire . |
| 22 | This must of necessity put you in a very weak defensive position and I would maintain that this is responsible for losing more bouts than any other factor . |
| 23 | She sees red and kills him with a very convenient weapon . |
| 24 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 25 | But , the fact is you can read over it , you can study it in a very literary way , you just ca n't do the same thing with Johnson . |
| 26 | Sec. in his report gave a resume of the year 's business and in particular referred to the proposed museum and the difficulties of establishing it with the very limited resources at the Society 's disposal . |
| 27 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 28 | Put it on a very low one so when you come back about twenty past two whack it up and by sort of say three o'clock , quarter past three you can sit down and eat your grub dinner . |
| 29 | And , as he describes it in a very striking page , suddenly had what he calls a , a very acute sense of unendurable individual loneliness of man , the acute , an acute sense of the pathos of the situation of the human individual , somehow inherently lonely , shut up within himself , undefended , against the blows of fate . |
| 30 | Some people would do it in a very extrovert way . |