Example sentences of "[vb pp] very [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two days after meeting Julie by the Serpentine in Hyde Park matters had come very quickly to a head . |
| 2 | Such samples can be interviewed very quickly at a fraction of the cost of full-scale randomly chosen samples . |
| 3 | Although a will can be prepared very quickly in an emergency , it is much better to take ample time to consider carefully what it should say and to make sure that you are happy with the arrangements you have made . |
| 4 | He was silenced very quickly by a frown from Mr Bush , and Mr Chamberlain 's message was allowed to continue undisturbed . |
| 5 | Indeed the history of this period could be seen very largely as a process of adjustment by and to TV . |
| 6 | First , the costs of providing benefits for lone parents have risen very rapidly as a consequence of the increased receipt of income support among lone parents . |
| 7 | You 've done very well for an hour or so . |
| 8 | A has keys tied very loosely on a string to his/her foot . |
| 9 | Then I fell asleep , but I was woken very suddenly by a smell of burning . |
| 10 | Nor was there evidence of language for work or life after school being taken very seriously as an issue , except insofar as it fitted in to conventional English and EFL work . |
| 11 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 12 | The Society has worked very closely with a number of groups — especially its Local Government Group — to prepare the model documents . |
| 13 | likewise we have some projects to show that we have worked very closely as an engineering firm , with the local college . |
| 14 | We must all have known home undergraduates who have worked very hard on an English course , who may be ambitious to do well , and who still , to their intense disappointment , end up doing badly . |
| 15 | Some of them are constructed very much like a church ; and an Essex writer , C. Henry Warren , very aptly called them ‘ cathedrals of labour ’ . |
| 16 | Mr Moore had been displaying the Spitfire for nine years before the accident , and was regarded very highly as a master of the machine |
| 17 | Brenda Thornton , do you think that men have changed very much as a result of the more forthright stance that women have been taking recently ? |