Example sentences of "we [verb] a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made a very definite decision some years ago to make the Gardener Centre look towards the community as a whole , rather than just make it a university toy , or part of the formal academic programme . |
| 2 | I remember that , a few years later , when I took Richard to London for the first time , we experienced a very heavy raid . |
| 3 | " We lived a very spartan life , " says Eva , " but I ca n't ever remember thinking other kids had a lot , and we had n't . |
| 4 | So we got a very substantial problem still to overcome in Leeds . |
| 5 | We got a very low-key response . ’ |
| 6 | We got a very good reception there ; the professional lighting and sound really made us feel as though we were professional . |
| 7 | In the heart of the English countryside we grow a very special flower . |
| 8 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 9 | Davidoff and Hall have recently underlined not only the strong conception of ministerial leadership possessed by John Angell James at Carr 's Lane in Birmingham — ‘ We occupy a very public station ; like the angel standing in the sun we must be seen ’ — but demonstrated his ability to lead his chapel in alignment with Anglican reformers to work for antislavery , temperance and projects of moral benevolence within the community . |
| 10 | She 'd come every two weeks to see me , she used to tell me everything that was going on with Natasha , and we built a very strong relationship up . |
| 11 | His name overpowered all objection , and we found a very good house and civil treatment . ’ |
| 12 | When we started building the university twenty years ago we encountered a very unusual problem . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ We put a very fair bid on the table , and I do n't want to get involved in an auction . |
| 14 | Souness , confined to the directors ' box because of a five-game ban from the touchline and dressing room area , said : ‘ I thought we played a very good team . |
| 15 | We 'd a very good job . |
| 16 | Here we give a very preliminary discussion . |
| 17 | Noble added : ‘ We face a very important decision . |
| 18 | First , when we examine a very wide range of psychotic traits in normal people , using questionnaires that contain different kinds of item , we find that they tend to group into clusters closely corresponding to the different ways in which clinical psychosis manifests itself : in emotion , in perception and thinking , and in socially deviant behaviour . |
| 19 | In Chapter 8 , where welfare economics was introduced , we stated a very important condition for an increase in economic welfare . |
| 20 | We anticipate a very fluid quota transfer situation with some leasing contracts as short as three months . |
| 21 | ‘ We run a very open capital market system here , which is not necessarily so in the rest of Europe . |
| 22 | These frustrations will pass when we adopt a very positive approach and with practice become more and more adept at using the ball when it is in our possession . |
| 23 | When we examined the larger sample of people whose first jobs after initial unemployment we obtained a very similar picture of a positive relationship between temporary working and recurrent unemployment . |
| 24 | We maintain a very high standard complemented by excellent service and hospitality . |
| 25 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
| 26 | I was glad to hear from Richard , with whom we spent a very satisfying week in August , that David has found a new girl-friend — Sally too , I believe — and that they both seem to have survived the breakup . |
| 27 | From the sandy beach in front of Hotel Rozos we organise a very flexible mix of windsurfing , dinghy and catamaran sailing . |
| 28 | In the Soviet Union most funds are channelled into Olympic sport , and because rugby does not take part in the Olympics we get a very small proportion from the budget . ’ |
| 29 | Then we get a very brief highlights … basically 2 Leeds shots , and the Liverpool goals and probably their other 3 half chances . |
| 30 | With the UDCs we find a very straightforward pork barrel subsidizing of particular development capital interests through the use of public resources . |