Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] very [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going to have to manage him , and whether I was able to do that successfully depended very much on how I managed this moment . |
| 2 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 3 | Another criticism of this study is that the authors only differentiated very generally between first and second generation Asian and Afro-Caribbeans without discussing the implications of mixing them together in the study , potentially masking important differences in the rates of schizophrenia between the two , and leaving an unclear picture as to whether second generation Asians , who were in the minority , benefited in the same way from the postulated protective factors . |
| 4 | ‘ In the light of the Divisional Court 's decision , we have naturally considered very carefully whether or not we should take the matter any further . |
| 5 | So far things had apparently gone very smoothly . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's all gone very well , ’ he said . |
| 7 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 8 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 9 | You 've all worked very hard . ’ |
| 10 | Prejudices , we 're all born with them , they 're if you like perceptions which are only changed very often through experience . |
| 11 | In March 1988 considerable consternation was created , not least among teachers who had generally responded very positively to the TGAT report , by the leak of a letter about the report from the Prime Minister 's secretary to Kenneth Baker 's secretary . |
| 12 | It 's best done very quickly . |
| 13 | So er I mean the power of the gentry just moved very rapidly towards the , the power of the peasants in a |
| 14 | The order is normally deposited very near to the last day , the reason being that this allows of last-minute alterations . |
| 15 | Why not add network support so that if you plug an extra personal computer into the local network , everyone 's applications will automatically run a bit faster ( and they already run very quickly indeed ) ? |
| 16 | Why not add network support so that if you plug an extra personal computer into the local network , everyone 's applications will automatically run a bit faster ( and they already run very quickly indeed ) ? |
| 17 | ’ His ‘ instant portrait ’ — on the accuracy of which he prided himself enormously — was that the client was most likely a starter , could very well be a married man , children off his hands , time on his hands , going back to his own public school days ( the velvet collar on the overcoat was a giveaway ) and the boys will be boys bit or just realized very late that what he really fancied was a bit of the other and had to wallet to get it . |
| 18 | The Nairn Town Council have always guarded very closely their right to confer the freedom . |
| 19 | Also I have always felt very strongly against the cutting down of trees , and as a teenager in Holland , I started a campaign against the destruction of woodlands for a motorway . ’ |
| 20 | According to the commission chief : ‘ We have always said very forcefully that more inspectors will be the prime claim . ’ |
| 21 | That young man always moved very correctly . |
| 22 | She 'd always done very well , had lots of friends , been very settled , nothing to make me believe in any way that she was disturbed . |
| 23 | Serious errors , such as the two examples given , are usually corrected very quickly , but many newspaper readers who have personal knowledge of a news item find inaccuracies in reporting which are of less importance and which do not get corrected . |
| 24 | I 've always thought very highly of Michael Jaffé , until recently Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum , and I 've had quite a lot of pleasant conversations with him . |
| 25 | bu , but the only other thing is Charlie 's still got very much like kinky fur . |
| 26 | An example of this can be found in Goddard 's ( 1987 ) discussion of working-class women in Naples ; whose lives are still based very much on this pattern despite economic changes . |
| 27 | She looked up — into a face she had once known very well . |
| 28 | Maternity care was still taken very seriously in 1944 . |
| 29 | He had failed in this so far but then he had hardly tried very hard . |
| 30 | Rejections are always put very nicely . |