Example sentences of "very [adj] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world would sound very strange to us through the ears of a frog , for we would hear the calls of other frogs , the noises made by its predators , and little else . |
| 2 | AS YOU CAN imagine , the dozen or so habitations , and their inmates , became very dear to me over the years , and gradually took over from reality . |
| 3 | Steve 's wife , Norah , of Woodchurch , said : ‘ I 'm very grateful to everyone at the Stirrup for raising this money so quickly for such a good cause . |
| 4 | I am very grateful to everyone in the Library who contributed to the costs of this trip . |
| 5 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 6 | It may have been a very naive discovery on my part , but that said something very definite to me about the way we live . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 8 | I was very prone to them at the time , mainly because I was undertaking only light and sometimes very spasmodic training . |
| 9 | ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me . |
| 10 | Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party . |
| 11 | I 've got erm proportional space code which is very similar to it on the Microsoft Works . |
| 12 | No , it says optional , I think it 'll be very optional for us at the moment . |
| 13 | When she has , through the process of grieving , faced the reality of her loss , you will need to be very patient with her through the period of depression that will follow , in which she may feel slowed up and extremely lethargic because , for a while , life will appear to her to have no further meaning or purpose . |
| 14 | There was very little about it in the national press . |
| 15 | ‘ As in XEU , Alaska is building a good track record and the challenge is to enhance and maintain it.Within BPX , however , the scale of the challenge continues to be very large for everyone in the business . |
| 16 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 17 | Ramsey was very rude to him in the debate . |
| 18 | I wish your husband would make some good , cheap sweets , ’ she said , and then said — almost tenderly — ‘ he was very good to me in the difficult days ’ . |
| 19 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 20 | you 're doing and yet you 're doing this tour of Alfie , which is obviously very important to us in the |
| 21 | I was n't very happy about it at the time , anyway , I was , her being , I think he was only when were they married ? |
| 22 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 23 | Freddie the Nark sat back in the cab , feeling very pleased with himself for the way he had handled such a tricky situation . |
| 24 | At any rate from 1571 it might well have been very disadvantageous for anyone in the district to openly profess allegiance to the Popish ways and Roman Catholic miners well might have been driven underground — and that is not fully intended as a pun . |
| 25 | Very convenient for me in the evenings , if I want to stop off , have a |
| 26 | Er , as I say , I 'm ra , I 'm very pessimistic about it at the moment but |
| 27 | David Meldrum , general manager , financial services , said the last couple of years had been very difficult for everyone in the industry . |
| 28 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |
| 29 | Very silly of him in the first place ! |