Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The blood of my forefathers , all men of the sea … tingled at the very thought . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
| 7 | How much to vary the product according to the market was a problem which hit at the very heart of the business . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , at that precise second , the makeshift platform gave way and Bobby disappeared at the very height of his rhetoric with the chairman , the union secretary , the workers ’ deputy and the four constables who by now had infiltrated the platform party . |
| 9 | She laughed at the very thought of it because she doubted it was possible because her conception of God was too small . |
| 10 | When I raised it as Chairman at the General Management Committee , I was disgusted to find that people laughed at the very subject that was so important to women who 've come up here today to let us know the consequences of what was happening . |
| 11 | His room lay at the very end of the corridor , beyond the locked doors of closets and bedrooms and attic steps . |
| 12 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 13 | At least she would n't either bully or patronise him , his usual lot amongst the cathedral clergy , ranking as he did at the very bottom of the cathedral hierarchy . |
| 14 | Admittedly such corollaries as ‘ Face facts ’ , which we introduced at the very start of the discussion in the first chapter , do support their authority by the urgency of factual awareness in choices of means . |
| 15 | In other words , friends at the school and the idea , as you said at the very beginning of your paper , is to report without any kind of erm censorship or judgment . |
| 16 | In short , as I said at the very beginning of this series of lectures , you must n't treat what as I say as gospel erm I am perfectly capable of being a little bit eccentric , possibly even a little bit erm original erm in my interpretations . |
| 17 | Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success . |
| 18 | But this struck at the very heart of what Laura was hoping to achieve and she quashed the suggestion with ferocity . |
| 19 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |
| 20 | Indeed it had and the Nonconformist minister stood at the very centre of the Nonconformist world we are discussing . |