Example sentences of "[vb past] very [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our kirk session was one which objected very strenuously to the use seven times of the male pronoun in the section on the holy spirit . |
| 2 | But if Marxist thinkers have not , on the whole , contributed very profoundly to the study of nationalism , much the same can be said of other major sociologists . |
| 3 | ‘ There is no doubt that Ramsay 's skill in navigation and cool determination contributed very materially towards the success of a most hazardous operation . ’ |
| 4 | To quote one of them ( D. M. Anderson ) , ‘ It is widely accepted that some , perhaps many , of the abiotic chemical reactions and processes leading to the origin on Earth of replicating micro-organisms occurred very early in the history of Earth in close proximity to the surfaces of clay minerals and other inorganic substrates . ’ |
| 5 | Many Suffolk horsemen , when occasionally they took their horses to Ipswich market , rose very early in the morning — three o'clock , or even earlier — to put the finishing touches to harness they had perhaps oiled the night before , and to paint the horses ' hoofs with harness oil to make them look smart . |
| 6 | Felicity rose very deliberately from the table , walked towards him , and pressing her body close to his , kissed his lips . |
| 7 | ‘ He behaved very much like the character he was playing , and everybody treated him like the character , the young kid , ’ recalled Chuck Julian , an actor in the film who has since become a theatrical agent . |
| 8 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 9 | He played very well during the champ . |
| 10 | ‘ We played very well on the day and it 's looking good , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Then , in missing the trial because of my collarbone injury , I thought I might have missed my chance because Greig Oliver played very well in the trial . |
| 12 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 13 | A head of black silky hair came very slowly over the top of the rail until two dark cherry-like eyes could see over the top . |
| 14 | The Chancellor 's fall came very quickly in the end , after one of his personal staff was arrested on 24 April 1974 as an East German spy . |
| 15 | From an operating point of view , their results compared very favourably with the sector . |
| 16 | A cart drove very loudly into the yard below . |
| 17 | With the head secured very firmly in the vice I attacked the outer edge of it , where the top section had been joined to the side , with a chisel and hammer . |
| 18 | It also compensated very thoroughly for the disaster of her relationship with Guy , who received short shrift when he telephoned on his return to London from Wales . |
| 19 | Indeed ‘ being without anyone ’ is a misery far worse for a writer than bad reviews , or a nagging little illness , or a minor bereavement , or living under a bad government — Dorothy Osborne fared very well under the Commonwealth . |
| 20 | Frau Gess telephoned very early in the morning to say that she had just called the doctor . |
| 21 | At the bar of the Globe Inn talk between the landlord and a Mr Woodhouse of Stowey turned very quickly to the subject of ‘ those Rascalls from Alfoxden ’ and of John Thelwall , who had left for Bristol two weeks earlier . |
| 22 | Just over two years ago she benefited very considerably from the will of a chap called William Coombes , who was senior partner in one of the second-rank stockbrokers . |
| 23 | She walked very quickly to the side of the stage , was absent for two minutes , then returned . |
| 24 | These schoolchildren talked very differently about the nature of society than the way a social scientist would . |
| 25 | A lot of Verity Lambert 's involvement at ABC TV had been in the realm of scripts , hence in their early days together she and David Whitaker worked very closely in the selecting of Doctor Who stories and the nature of their content . |
| 26 | ‘ He always worked very hard on the training pitch when he was at Tottenham , but he did n't always have that bit of luck a keeper sometimes needs . |
| 27 | Dr Sambataro felt very strongly about the decision to send troops to Russia ; he had a lot to do with the army in the course of his work . |
| 28 | His father died very shortly after the birth , and his mother took the family back to England , and then to France in 1826 . |
| 29 | Furthermore , despite a recent recovery , the fact that the value of our investments fell very sharply in the calendar year illustrates that we are certainly not insulated from our country 's economic problems ; this must never be overlooked in planning for the future . ’ |
| 30 | No new offer was made but each side listened very attentively to the other . |