Example sentences of "[vb past] very [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin-Anne nodded very earnestly as though she truly cared about my opinion , but her next question showed that she was paying no attention to my inanities . |
| 2 | While I was afflicted with serious English composition and English literature , I was reading Scott , Fenimore Cooper , Henty , and the travellers , because I loved them ; I was also thinking and talking in a manner which owed little to those dignified exercises , though the day was to come when I spoke very much as I wrote … |
| 3 | If Day-Lewis is the movie 's greatest strength then its most noticeable defect is that it was shot by two different cinematog-raphers , often with the same scene lit very differently as if taking place at contrasting times of day . |
| 4 | He began to examine the neck and head of the calf , then became very still as he handled one of the little horn buds . |
| 5 | My boss stood very still as he looked over the side of the pen at the little animal . |