Example sentences of "[pron] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever Minton entered Mr Alexander greeted him by leading the band into one of his two favourite songs : ‘ My Very Good Friend the Milkman ’ or ‘ I 'm Gon na Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ That you bear a remarkable resemblance to my very good friend Mathilda , younger sister of the Princess of Hohenzollern . ’ |
| 3 | I shall refer to two subjects , neither of which will meet with the accord of my very good friend , my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) . |
| 4 | ‘ David Mellor and his family have been coming to my restaurant for 18 years and they are my very good friends , ’ says Moziruddin . |
| 5 | ‘ My very good friends , ’ he commenced , ‘ I wo n't keep you long . |
| 6 | When he went home to Basle he showed the photographs to his family and pointed out to them ‘ my very good neighbour Canon Ramsay [ sic ] from Durham , an authentic Anglo-Catholic , with strange views concerning tradition , succession , ontology and so on , but also with a very convincing twinkle in his eye … a man with whom I more often agreed than disagreed … the outstanding figure in the picture of my first ecumenical experience ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I can see that eventually I shall lose my very good assistant and you will lose your partner . |
| 8 | So my very real question to you is , ‘ Do you really , deep down , want to discourage him ? ’ |
| 9 | After struggling with one of Ruth 's imaginative scenes , I was so relieved when Basil let me attempt to paint a spray of wheat and barley stalks that I almost began to enjoy myself when he made some encouraging remark about my very tentative effort ! |
| 10 | My very ordinary London flat costs about half as much again as my flat in Glasgow , which is an infinitely superior building in which to live in every respect . |
| 11 | This is my very dear friend Alexander . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You see , my very dear Shiona , I 'm planning to get married in a couple of weeks ’ time . ’ |
| 13 | One shop assistant approached my very bored husband rather than me . |
| 14 | So between us , we felt we could not place the Swanpool kiln too far into the fourth century , and my very hesitant suggestion was a bracket — AD 280 — 350 . |
| 15 | In my very early childhood , it was in Mr Knight 's pony and cart ; but then Mr Lewarne had a motor car , and from then on he fetched us from the station . |
| 16 | His whole life , like my very early life , has been punctuated by these soothing ceremonies . |
| 17 | On a personal note , in my very early days on the staff of Ipswich Art School , Squirrell was teaching and I have very fond memories of the kindness and helpfulness which this most likeable man extended to me as a new boy . |
| 18 | I wondered if this advert from one of my very early Needlecraft magazines , about 1950 , is of any use to you . |
| 19 | Er since I 'm experting on my very early youth . |
| 20 | Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination . |
| 21 | Leonard Meager [ q.v. ] , in The English Gardener ( 1670 ) , printed ‘ a Catalogue of divers sorts of Fruit , which I had of my very Loving friend Captain Garrle ’ , containing over 300 varieties , many of them from France . |
| 22 | That is my very ungrateful sister who 's a fat tart . |
| 23 | My very experienced colleague remarked that her machine was looping at the edges and she could n't seem to cure it . |
| 24 | And I do , and I do , I must say not for the last time during the passage of this Bill , I do feel constrain to offer my very deep sympathy to my Noble Friend on the front bench . |
| 25 | Colleagues , it 's now my very great privilege on your behalf to extend an invitation to Abdul , the honorary secretary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement , to address congress . |
| 26 | Mr. Gould was to my very great regret in this disposition when Mr. Gunn , Elinor and I embarked again in the evening to visit the shores of that portion of the northern part of Research Bay where La Haye 's garden was planted , and where Captain King had discovered signs of coal … |
| 27 | I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said . |
| 28 | It 's now my very great pleasure , congress , to call Nigel to move the Health and Safety and Environment Service Review . |
| 29 | It 's now my very great pleasure to look for Jacqui who 's our shop leader of Sherborne shop . |
| 30 | Now it 's my very great pleasure to I think probably introduce the youngest member of our audience here today and a very good supporter of Save The Children erm I am sitting down soon beside Elise who 's travelled all the way from Norwich . |