Example sentences of "very [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After some discussion as to the walk , by now approaching 10 am , out of the fog was heard the sound of a steam loco and the 8F Severn Valley Engine No 48773 appeared , travelling very slowly with a Birmingham Railway Museum support coach attached . |
| 2 | And it pays to travel about You see the problem with Jackie and Nev is always been that they ca n't believe that you can get things in a place like W H Smiths that will that will do very nicely as a Christmas present . |
| 3 | Well it pays to tramp around you see the problem with Jackie and Len has always been that they can not believe that you can get things in a place like W H Smith that will , that will do very nicely as a Christmas present , they tend to go |
| 4 | Maxim lifted him very gently to a sitting position . |
| 5 | The catapult works very much like a stone thrower as described in the Warhammer rules except that the Goblin is able to steer himself to his target and is therefore more accurate than a stone . |
| 6 | The September demonstrations appeared very much like a single-issue movement , but I would argue that other concerns were raised , including the lack of political reform in China . |
| 7 | This done , the cocoon was enclosed in a leaden coffin , very much like a mummy case , before being lodged in its outer wooden case . |
| 8 | There is also a part of the Gibson building that looks very much like a hospital environment . |
| 9 | It looked very much like a Francis Bacon , and an original at that . |
| 10 | Lava erupted underwater cools very rapidly with a plastic skin forming around lumps of still molten material . |
| 11 | Restored by a large steak , he explained to her as they ate that he liked to work very quickly on a murder case , pushing everyone to get an answer . |
| 12 | This compares very favourably with a battery system , which can take several hours to re-charge . |
| 13 | Derek Bevan , whilst pointing out that the quick throw-in does not happen very often in a game situation , is convinced that , overall , it would encourage a more open style of play . |
| 14 | That came across very strongly at a UNEP conference in Nairobi in 1989 on phasing out CFCs . |
| 15 | And I , yah , it does n't work very well as a headline face . |
| 16 | The warm , somewhat muted , colours lend themselves very well to a tapestry design . |
| 17 | There are of course , certain similarities : one of them is the sustaining pedal which already works very well on a Mozart piano , although you have to use your knees on the earlier ones . |
| 18 | It now looks very well in a 15in pot , staked against wind damage and regularly fed , and in its first year yielded a crop of more than 3lb of berries . |
| 19 | The second type can not get away with anything , and must keep very precisely to a set number of calories , weighing and measuring food carefully , in order to shed weight . |
| 20 | Pakenham describes his method : ‘ I would start off very lightly with a love poem and then there 's a sudden edge to it , there 's a twist or a change . |