Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most colonists remained loyal subjects of the King , but they paid very little money to him and his government and they received very little help , financial or military , from it . |
| 2 | Now , bent and rheumaticky and crosser than ever , Ruth and her sister Joan Young found him a figure to be pitied rather than feared , but both agreed that he was an evil-tempered old man and they felt very sorry for his only daughter Molly who kept house for him . |
| 3 | And they seemed very happy doing it , and they certainly were very muscly |
| 4 | Er I was in the credit and I was with a large group of people there and they seemed very happy and I think we were fair , we 'd got good conditions . |
| 5 | So if you total it up , Be er again and first of all council being a , being a council , and they succeeded very well . |
| 6 | We played a couple of club dates , one of which was filmed as the next video for ‘ Back To The Light ’ , and then we did three smallish stadium gigs with Joe Cocker and the B-52s , and they went very well too . |
| 7 | When a message came from a friend in Prague that their mother had disappeared , Miss Harder did everything she could to console them and they became very close . |
| 8 | One of the French girls at her Swiss boarding school had told her that boys liked a girl to have a ‘ poitrine ’ and they became very excited when they touched a girl 's breast ; this , she had maintained , explained the fashion for dresses which made a girl look flat-chested — so that as many as possible would not inflame men 's passions and would thereby remain virgins . |
| 9 | And they became very much afraid and said to one another who then is this , that even the wind and the sea obey him ? |
| 10 | Their friends were either in London or around Gloucestershire , and they had very active social lives , particularly after William started kindergarten in September 1985 . |
| 11 | Coming from college a lot of them used to work in groups but a lot of them had worked more individually and they had very flat scores i e everything was quite equal and they did n't have anything coming through okay . |
| 12 | Shock , but after a while their limbs 'll start trembling and they become very confused , now a person , a perfectly nice person , oh , you know , always very helpful and kind can suddenly become aggressive and they really do become aggressive and , if they go to violence their strength , oh where they get it from god only knows , but they could literally throw a person across the room . |
| 13 | Richard Barker said that Waterstones was pleased with the popularity of its own-brand vouchers : ‘ We relaunched our own vouchers in 1992 , and they sold very well . |
| 14 | I watched that game and they played very well . |
| 15 | A neighbour said : ‘ We do n't see them very often and they keep very much to themselves . ’ |
| 16 | Except that the world 's financial markets are n't thinking in Ppounds , and they get very nervous . |
| 17 | And they get very uptight if they get erm too much and then it 's reduced rather than the other way round . |
| 18 | They protect themselves from too much probing and they appear very secretive in nature but can take ice-cold decisions without a second glance if it suits their purpose . |
| 19 | It can be great fun creating designs like these , and they look very effective once they are finished . |
| 20 | But they 're all a long way off , and they look very faint . |
| 21 | Well I do n't think they 'll like this one little bit will they , I mean the players are out there practising at the moment , they look very smart as well in an all blue tracksuit erm and erm obviously a club colour and they look very smart indeed , er but er the journalists do n't like it and I do n't think the players will like it very much either . |
| 22 | And they need very little maintenance and no spare parts . |
| 23 | ‘ My family came to do good and they did very well . ’ |
| 24 | In the local elections their share of the vote was and they did very very well . |
| 25 | We had given them the prospect of an out in the five years and they did very well out of their investment . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Donlan said ; ‘ The schools ’ performance was well above average , the results were excellent , and they did very well . ’ |
| 27 | With older sufferers , erm , usually families are excluded from treatment , they 're kept out , they 're told that they 're daughter erm must be seen on her own and they feel very helpless and very unloved and unsupported by by the professionals . |
| 28 | Their feet are also bright yellow and they have very large toes , each ending in a black talon . |
| 29 | And they have very short toes |
| 30 | And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ? |