Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his ‘ Small History of Photography ’ , Benjamin ( 1979a , p. 248 ) notes that in photography 's early mid-nineteenth-century days , ‘ the client ’ who came to be photographed was ‘ the member of a rising class equipped with an aura that seeped into the very folds of the man 's frock coat or floppy cravat ’ , but that the later ‘ imperialist bourgeoisie ’ lost its aura in its ‘ deepening degeneration ’ , its Jugendstil photos featuring a fashionable ‘ twilight ’ and a ‘ non-auratic pose ’ . |
| 2 | It was impossible to discuss the idea of Arab nationalism without mentioning Palestine , because the Arab political awakening occurred in the very years of Zionist settlement in Palestine in the first half of this century . |
| 3 | Significantly the dream of an Imperial organic entity perished on the very battlefields of Flanders where the self-governing Dominions did apparently fight ‘ for their common interests ’ : |
| 4 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 5 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 6 | He stood up , his deep blue glance moving over her in a slow appraisal that burned into the very pores of her skin , and she realised , in those few heart-stopping moments , what a mistake it had been to confront him . |
| 7 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 8 | I came from the very opposite . |
| 9 | Although it is tempting to trace the historical antecedents of subcontracting to the pre-industrial ‘ putting-out ’ system , the crucial impetus came from the very rapid expansion in manufacturing output from the later 1950s . |
| 10 | But her greatest thrill of all came on the very day they were going home , for the Brownie Guider from Stowbridge came to see them off and she brought the exciting news that a second Pack was being formed at Stowbridge and that the way was now wide open for Brenda to become a Brownie . |
| 11 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
| 12 | In the front in Stirling 's jeep , Johnny Cooper fired off the Very lights , causing the whole formation to wheel right or left , and then they opened fire . |
| 13 | Thus , safe and composed , we arrived in the very heart of Derbyshire 's beautiful and historic Peak District , looking forward to our three day stay and in plenty of time for dinner . |
| 14 | Thus , safe and composed , we arrived in the very heart of Derbyshire 's beautiful and historic Peak District , looking forward to our three day stay and in plenty of time for dinner . |
| 15 | Tim climbed to the very top of the tree . |
| 16 | Irene Markham indicated for her to sit down and she perched on the very edge of an upright chair suddenly feeling quite miserable and wishing she had n't come . |
| 17 | The blood of my forefathers , all men of the sea … tingled at the very thought . ’ |
| 18 | God were good , but hampered by the very technology that is supposed to help them get their message across . |
| 19 | In part that might be explained in terms of the powers of resistance possessed by the bureaucracies under attack , so that whatever change is proposed it is soon absorbed and reinterpreted by the very groups it is intended to undermine . |
| 20 | There is a dank muskiness purveyed through the very stone of the walls and the original plaster of the unexpectedly beautiful vaulting . |
| 21 | One landed in the very centre of er East Grinstead too . |
| 22 | Joshua 6 belonged to the very beginning of the story of conquest and settlement . |
| 23 | I found it my calling to be the one in the NME office who flinched at the very sight of their wibbly-wobbly figurines and pretend four-track album which was really 12 tracks , the over-educated jessies ! |
| 24 | In part this failure of the middle classes to present a unified political front arose from the very intransigence of the regime . |
| 25 | More recently there was Geoffrey Prime , who worked in the very heart of GCHQ ( see Chapter 4 ) , and Michael Bettaney , an MI5 officer whose drunken and strange behaviour was in many ways reminiscent of Guy Burgess 's yet similarly went undetected until reported by a defector ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 26 | But to an Elf people desperate for stability , shocked to the very core by their sundering with their kin of Naggaroth , he promised a familiar hand at the tiller . |
| 27 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
| 28 | How much to vary the product according to the market was a problem which hit at the very heart of the business . |
| 29 | After a very pleasant lunch therefore , I taxied to the very end of the runway , turned into wind and took off . |
| 30 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |