Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 2 | The ballad-type songs of the day sung by such as Tony Bennett , Rosemary Clooney , Doris Day , Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra , plus the great classical music she had heard from her youth , facilitated Masha Cohen 's overcoming of her personal nightmares , and had become — along with the very important Yiddish music — the natural background to Leonard 's life , too . |
| 3 | Rudling added a giant of a conversion so Gloucester were 12-9 down until the very last kick of the game which turned out to be a penalty . |
| 4 | The basis of this understanding of marriage is laid down in the very first book of the Bible : ‘ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife , and they become one . ’ |
| 5 | But if predictability broke down in the very strong gravitational fields in the big bang , it could also break down whenever a star collapsed . |
| 6 | Likewise , the distinctive black and yellow ichneumon wasp Amblyteles armatorius will crawl in beside the very same moth caterpillars that it may later parasitise with its eggs . |
| 7 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 8 | Much the biggest is the Electricity Corporation ( NZ$3.3bn ) , followed by the Earthquake and War Damage Commission ( NZ$1.5bn ) , right down to the very capable NZ Symphony Orchestra ( NZ$0.002bn — about £600,000 ) . |
| 9 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |
| 10 | He flirts occasionally with the rhinoceros and the camel as self-images , but mainly , secretly , essentially , he is the Bear : a stubborn bear ( 1852 ) , a bear thrust deeper into bearishness by the stupidity of his age ( 1853 ) , a mangy bear ( 1854 ) , even a stuffed bear ( 1869 ) ; and so on down to the very last year of his life , when he is still ‘ roaring as loudly as any bear in its cave ’ ( 1880 ) Note that in Hérodias , Flaubert 's last completed work , the imprisoned prophet Iaokanann , when ordered to stop howling his denunciations against a corrupt world , replies that he too will continue crying out ‘ like a bear ’ . |
| 11 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 12 | From what I saw the other day , you already have a full biography of me down to the very last detail , even though you 'd missed one or two relevant facts . |
| 13 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 14 | I mentioned in my original article that at its upper end the Minuet spills over into the very fast dance the Viennese called a ‘ Deutsche ’ or ‘ Teutch ’ ( Mozart : ‘ Teitsch ’ ) . |
| 15 | The early campaigns seem to continue through to the very different style used today . |
| 16 | ‘ It'a sport which can teach agility and movement at a basic level through to the very high skill levels required to compete at the top . |
| 17 | Cried off at the very last moment , Mrs Parslow said . |
| 18 | It was O , calling Boy up for the very first time . |
| 19 | In the blue corner , we have the ‘ JD Telecaster ’ , the Japanese-made version of the very same instrument , and one you can probably pick up for the very interesting price of £400 or less . |
| 20 | It is not just the choral singing that puts this new Messiah up with the very best . |
| 21 | PJ , however , is lining up with the very best . |
| 22 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 23 | Finally , whatever else you do , if you want to keep up with the very latest versions of software , it 's pointless pirating . |
| 24 | But the Grand Emissary had swung up in the very newest model of the Novablast Personaluxury Liner , making me feel like a meteorite next to an asteroid . |
| 25 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 26 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 27 | As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking . |
| 28 | I went across the course to the stands side to see the horses in the paddock , and then I went up to the very comfy Tribune des Dames , for which the French Racing Authorities so generously send me a badge each year . |
| 29 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 30 | By the time the taxi driver pulled up outside the very normal house in the very normal street in one of the suburbs of Nice she had pretty much convinced herself that she was slowly going insane . |