Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on very " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the singularity theorems that Roger Penrose and I proved show that space-time will become highly curved on very small scales . |
| 2 | It is clear that such a justification not only depends on very special circumstances but is essentially parasitic . |
| 3 | The top shelf was reserved for one of Mum 's wedding presents , a floral decorated bone china tea service , only used on very special occasions , which we all treated with great respect . |
| 4 | He had been about four years old , and although he was younger than my brother , they always got on very well together and were heartbroken when the time came for them to part . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's nearly a year younger than I am , but we always got on very well . |
| 6 | As our inner-city work was mainly focused on very fine-grained differentiation , we have so far paid less attention to these more generalized markers in Belfast English , and in some cases we have not published the quantitative findings that arose from studying these . |
| 7 | ‘ Whether Mills knew then that he was KGB , we 'll never know , but they certainly got on very well together . |
| 8 | I never got on very well and ended up getting thrown out of my classes . |
| 9 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |