Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By means of regression it is possible to take such a man back to one of those occasions when his own and his partner 's mutual desires had culminated in a very happy and successful sexual encounter for them both . |
| 2 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 3 | Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed . |
| 4 | The committees had to work to a very tight timetable . |
| 5 | Lily , my mother , was not allowed to receive this additional education and from her early teens had to work as a very junior housemaid , at the beck and call of older staff . |
| 6 | By the time of his death , in May 1991 , none of his many books was available in paperback , and sales of the hardback editions had dropped to a very low level indeed . |
| 7 | Above : The remains of LF363 at Wittering after the crash crews had succeeded in a very quick knock-down of the blaze . |
| 8 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 9 | On autopsy it was established that he had suffered from a very rare brain condition in which the thalamus progressively degenerated . |
| 10 | They had the easy familiarity of two people who knew each other very well indeed , and had done for a very long time . |
| 11 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 12 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 13 | On the day before the Newbury By-election , I , and others , had participated in a very frank exchange of views with representatives of the Department of National Heritage ( DoNH ) , at a seminar organised by the Tourism Society — at which current Government policy was discussed with representatives of the tourism industry . |
| 14 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 15 | It was impossible to do anything except admit something that she had known for a very long time . |
| 16 | The Duchess had sworn in a very mild tone , but her words still made Lord John bridle . |
| 17 | The movies , as Dr Dale had suggested , had ‘ the entire world as their range ’ and yet they had settled for a very restricted section . |
| 18 | The owners in May , 1973 , had entered into a very advantageous agreement to charter the tanker on completion to Shell for three years , and they would have lost this advantage if the yard carried out its threat . |
| 19 | He had gone in a very simple costume as ‘ The Kid ’ . |
| 20 | Momentarily transfixed , I soon realised we had run into a very dense patch of phosphorescence , a common enough phenomenon at sea which never failed to fascinate me . |
| 21 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
| 22 | Design manager Ian Cheetham , 30 , said calmly : ‘ It was no big deal and we had to get to a very important meeting with clients . ’ |
| 23 | I had returned to a very different Air Force indeed . |