Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a very " in BNC.

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1 I came up with a very simple answer to this problem and hope it will help others .
2 A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza .
3 I sat down in a very deep sofa .
4 ‘ I mean , letters like that are just a laugh , are n't they ? ’ she rushed on with a very poor effort at bravado .
5 And this pays in the results you get only after a very long time .
6 When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet .
7 In most accountancy practices you have very few of those — and you do n't have any I-Preserves either , who are good at relationships and making people feel warm and wanted , so you end up with a very cool , intellectual kind of set-up ’ .
8 She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream .
9 She sat down on a very solid patio chair and knew she was living a nightmare .
10 In true pilgrim tradition we prayed and did penance together and we also took our recreation together and we also took our recreation together and so on Wednesday evening we met together for a very happy celebration .
11 We put in at a very tiny stream that would lead to the main waterway .
12 At least it stood us in good stead for Tuesday night 's game at Scrimley Arsenal , where we came away with a very creditable 2–4 defeat .
13 And you thought , ooh it 's going to be fifty degrees because of because we started off with a very easy number three pound sixty .
14 Starting from the logic of sustainability , we end up with a very similar size for a new community to the one that Howard was writing about a hundred years ago .
15 But in social time and social space we make just such distinctions and we do so in a very consistent way .
16 ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug …
17 The padre goes with them as they leap out into a very boggy field .
18 And yet , if you join those two inert things together in the right ratios they go off with a very big bang .
19 So although cats do enjoy this taste , they do so at a very mild level indeed .
20 He became aware that the Boulton & Watt steam-engines installed in so many factories in the first quarter of the nineteenth century could no longer be coaxed to produce more power to meet ever-growing demands , and he came up with a very elegant solution which prolonged the useful life of these engines by many years .
21 He came across as a very angst-ridden man . ’
22 Which was just as well , as this time he came back after a very few minutes .
23 He solved her problem because when he came in with a very satisfied-looking Candace Rainford beside him he came straight over to Maggie .
24 And it grows best within a very precise temperature range of 30–31°C .
25 Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today .
26 but he spoke quickly with a very strong accent and that
27 It operates however on a very limited basis in the course of nineteen ninety four it 's likely that there will only be eight half day meetings of the full European parliament in Brussels .
28 He does so in a very subtle manner .
29 This does not mean that the timetable disappears , although in the smaller primary schools operating the integrated day it does so to a very great extent , leaving only such activities as physical education and music needing some organized attention .
30 He kicked off with a very comfortable success in Division One of the Restricted on Jim Papworth 's Melton Park , who made light of his 7lb. penalty in his fourth victory of the season , and followed up in Division Two on Paylins .
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