Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the very same week as Lady Mary Deverill was being laid to her final rest in the family churchyard at Brougham , across the Atlantic Ocean , in the statue packed graveyard of the Church of St Peter and St Paul , Westfield , Boston , Massachusetts , the recently bereaved Patrick Milligan entertained a very different hope from the father of the little girl in England . |
| 2 | The stammer fitted Marlowe 's embarrassment and Bernard got a very good press . |
| 3 | On the one occasion Southampton did threaten after Leeds scored Kelly made a very timely interception as one of the Southampton forwards beared down on goals . |
| 4 | DesignaKnit has a very helpful function which lets you decide what the maximum allowable float length ( in stitches ) can be . |
| 5 | The subsequent short ride into Maidenhead produced a very one-sided conversation and the return trip , in perfect VMC , was conducted extremely circumspectly . |
| 6 | Walker has a very wide remit . |
| 7 | When pushed for an influence on this ‘ doubling ’ approach , Adams has a very simple answer : ‘ AC/DC ! |
| 8 | Richard has a very fertile mind . |
| 9 | Countess Spencer holds a very special place in Diana 's heart . |
| 10 | It is known , however , that synthetic PGPR has a very short half life ( <5 minutes ) in human serum in vitro but persists for up to four hours in human urine in vitro . |
| 11 | Syria has a very significant role now to play and we ought not to be seeking ways of annoying them . |
| 12 | Kline keeps a very tight lid on his own private life . |
| 13 | Rex breathed a very big sigh of relief . |
| 14 | In the first stanza Marlow creates a very generalised landscape of ‘ Vallies , groves , hills and fields , /woods [ and ] steepie mountain[s] ’ . |
| 15 | A matchless peak overlooking a superb cirque and with a steep buttress of Stob a'Chearcaill a very committing moment along the skyline indeed . |
| 16 | Otto the Great took special steps to be anointed and crowned king of Germany and emperor ; and his younger contemporary Edgar imported a very similar ceremony into England . |
| 17 | ‘ I think Mrs Harper and Miss Burge do a very good job under rather difficult conditions , said Ianthe , ‘ after all the whole place is very small and the kitchen especially so . ’ |
| 18 | When the next government under de Valera introduced a very limited scheme of public health assistance in 1952 , the hierarchy still opposed its introduction , and by direct methods as well . |
| 19 | ‘ David had a very good game at Leeds , apart from not applying the golden rule of playing until the ref blows his whistle . |
| 20 | I think Berkshire had a very rough ride and others too and they 're saying exactly the sorts of things that are being said in this county and it may be the last strategic plan on the county too , so it 's a very important document . |
| 21 | The Factory Whistle he had already read , in the handsome new edition personally inscribed to him by Viola Machin ( ‘ To Gregory Hocking a very good friend to both Walter 's widows — from Viola Machin ’ ) . |
| 22 | During the thirties two teams vied for support , Lees , Holborough had a very successful team , playing on the Halling Institute ground . |
| 23 | ‘ Metastasio had a very acute ear for the way people bully , blackmail and seduce one another . |
| 24 | Hope became a very thin commodity . |
| 25 | On a similar theme , Hugh Hebert produced a very interesting comment concerning the relationship between the form of A Very British Coup and its political effectiveness . |
| 26 | Ireland reported a very strong performance and there were improved results from Belgium and Italy . |
| 27 | Mr. Constantine has a very pleasant evening and a good night 's sleep and is suitably impressed with the furniture and fittings , especially the bathroom and the luxurious towels . |
| 28 | Bernstein and Reynolds give a very full treatment of the subject , much of which turns on the interpretation of provisions in commercial leases . |
| 29 | Leeds started the first half well , with Deane getting a very early chance , Speed got in his way a bit and the header was a typical powder puff in the end . |
| 30 | To meet such objections Ross developed a very useful concept which has become part of the regular stock in trade of moral philosophers , the concept of a prima facie duty . |