Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [art] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hobbled my shameful way from First Buttress North on Lundy as the sun 's last rays winked over the darkening sea ( and last orders for food were being called at the island 's only pub ) after tumbling from the very last move of the 90ft first pitch of Road Runner . |
| 2 | ‘ Having twins as characters was a device for looking at the very silly phrase ‘ having it all ’ : it was a way of signalling this division within us . |
| 3 | Mrs Bolton kept her in a pen where , despite remaining in a very frightened state , the little beast recovered and started eating small amounts of hay . |
| 4 | We first discussed the possibility of regressing to a very early period in her current life . |
| 5 | I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required . |
| 6 | Mr and Mrs T questioned whether family counselling might have been a better way of dealing with a very complicated situation , or at worst whether an interdict could be placed on the older boys in the W family . |
| 7 | Another report from Rabkrin accused Tsentroevak , the Central Refugee Evacuation Commission , of behaving in a very complacent fashion over the number of migrants piling up in the cities of Samara , Penza and Voronezh . |
| 8 | The fit ‘ young elderly ’ are already an important resource for caring for the very old and may more become so . |
| 9 | Pursuing the issue of the fieldworker 's social role , it is worth commenting on a very general and apparently reasonable assumption that the closer the fieldworker is matched to subjects in terms of various social attributes , the more successful he or she is likely to be . |
| 10 | The fact that most trust income is subject to deduction of Income Tax at the source has probably obscured the speciality which attaches to the representative character of trustees as payers of Income Tax ; but if the proposition now maintained for the trustees is a sound one it is incomprehensible that it should never have been advanced with regard to the very large sums of trust income which do not , and never can , reach the hands of an income-beneficiary . |
| 11 | Go down the other side to follow Lingcove Beck for just over two miles , before crossing over the very shallow col separating the Lingcove valley from Mosedale . |
| 12 | The president of the RICS at the time filed evidence about his practice for dealing with the very large number of applications for appointments of rent review experts and arbitrators ( 7,664 in 1985 : but see 10.5.3 above14,550 in 1990 ) . |
| 13 | He really took to reading at a very early age . |
| 14 | Secondly , there are administrative and logistic problems about selecting from the very large numbers of catalogues available , and many librarians prefer to select from a single bibliographical source ( see Chapter 8 ) , cross-checking to publishers ' catalogues if more details about particular titles are needed . |
| 15 | Now the first story that I 've been asked to tell specially comes not from this country we 'll just let our lads here get dressed because you , you knew that the story was gon na come from a very hot country did you ? |
| 16 | erm How does one in any case fine a motorist who is n't standing by his car or sitting in it ? erm I would , if the question is shall we try it , if that is implied , I would say it 's worth trying in a very moderate way , it may require the police and the police representatives so to speak , the wardens if they 're going to be empowered to do this kind of thing , I think it 's going to force them to become very , very diplomatic and civilized in the way they handle it , but we of course too will have to learn to respond in a civilized manner . |
| 17 | Some rare people remain slim by staying with a very restrictive way of eating . |
| 18 | Indeed , only by holding to a very diffuse and very general understanding of social theory is it possible to see many of these views and their exponents as representatives of the same general theoretical approach . |