Example sentences of "very [adj] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The first questions that you brought up was , if possible I would be very grateful to you for a brief description of the two raids to Gdynia Pole ninth of October in Colesfield tenth of October nineteen forty three . |
| 5 | It may have been a very naive discovery on my part , but that said something very definite to me about the way we live . |
| 6 | I was very prone to them at the time , mainly because I was undertaking only light and sometimes very spasmodic training . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I 've got erm proportional space code which is very similar to it on the Microsoft Works . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Ramsey was very rude to him in the debate . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | you 're doing and yet you 're doing this tour of Alfie , which is obviously very important to us in the |
| 14 | You were very kind to me at a time when I needed comforting and I 'm grateful to you . ’ |