Example sentences of "[verb] the very word " in BNC.

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1	A reading of the Act of 1968 , which was based on the draft Bill annexed to the report , leads me to the conclusion that , when using the very words of the draft , Parliament intended to implement the committee 's thinking .
2	But they hate the very word ‘ democrat ’ !
3	In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) .
4	‘ The Prime Minister has shown herself completely unfit not only to attend any conference on human rights anywhere , but even to utter the very words . ’
5	GUIL : We 'll take the very words out of your mouth .
6	ROS : Took the very words out of my mouth .
7	Now I 've finished researching this issue of NI , I have come to hate the very word ‘ population ’ .
8	Now I 've finished editing this issue of NI , I have come to hate the very word ‘ population ’ .
9	One might even argue that the monist , if he followed the logic of his position , would not be able to discuss language at all : if meaning is inseparable from form , one can not discuss meaning except by repeating the very words in which it is expressed , and one can not discuss form except by saying that it appropriately expresses its own meaning .
10	In modern times we have come to associate the very word ‘ ecology ’ with a concern for the environment — yet ‘ ecology ’ is properly the name of the science that deals with the ways in which living things interact with one another and with their environment .

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