Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , at that precise second , the makeshift platform gave way and Bobby disappeared at the very height of his rhetoric with the chairman , the union secretary , the workers ’ deputy and the four constables who by now had infiltrated the platform party . |
| 3 | Sally and Edward sat in the very front row of the audience at the Fashion Show on canvas hospital-style chairs . |
| 4 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 5 | The privileges of that Act went to the very heart of the N H S. |
| 6 | A young lady stood near the very centre of the circle , still on the arm of a much older gentleman whose attentive pose betokened a parental or protective association with his eager , fashionable young companion , who behaved as if she were very conscious of being watched and admired . |
| 7 | In the front in Stirling 's jeep , Johnny Cooper fired off the Very lights , causing the whole formation to wheel right or left , and then they opened fire . |
| 8 | He was not the cleverest speaker in the house , a palm which by general consent went to the very Tory Charles Smyth , and the house also contained Patrick Devlin and Selwyn Lloyd and sometimes Rab Butler . |
| 9 | For Angell the key evidence of the irrationality of war lay in the very delicacy of the newly evolved mechanisms of international finance . |
| 10 | His room lay at the very end of the corridor , beyond the locked doors of closets and bedrooms and attic steps . |
| 11 | There is a dank muskiness purveyed through the very stone of the walls and the original plaster of the unexpectedly beautiful vaulting . |
| 12 | Sonic Youth 's Kim Gordon wrapped in the very flag thereafter incinerated by the band for NME 's American Independence Day cover shot . |
| 13 | Significantly the dream of an Imperial organic entity perished on the very battlefields of Flanders where the self-governing Dominions did apparently fight ‘ for their common interests ’ : |
| 14 | When I raised it as Chairman at the General Management Committee , I was disgusted to find that people laughed at the very subject that was so important to women who 've come up here today to let us know the consequences of what was happening . |
| 15 | Marcella Tate sat on the very edge of her chair clutching her little dog to her thin breast . |
| 16 | As the star got to the very outskirts of the hole , its light could hardly move at all at first . |
| 17 | Tim climbed to the very top of the tree . |
| 18 | Baxter believed the Antinomian controversy went to the very roots of the Christian faith and this was one of the main reasons he accepted the offer of an army chaplaincy in order to counter this error . |
| 19 | It was impossible to discuss the idea of Arab nationalism without mentioning Palestine , because the Arab political awakening occurred in the very years of Zionist settlement in Palestine in the first half of this century . |
| 20 | Indeed it had and the Nonconformist minister stood at the very centre of the Nonconformist world we are discussing . |
| 21 | In part this failure of the middle classes to present a unified political front arose from the very intransigence of the regime . |
| 22 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 23 | Although it is tempting to trace the historical antecedents of subcontracting to the pre-industrial ‘ putting-out ’ system , the crucial impetus came from the very rapid expansion in manufacturing output from the later 1950s . |
| 24 | ‘ I believe , ’ Dame Agatha said in a hushed whisper as if eavesdroppers lurked in the very trees , ‘ that Lady Eleanor was preparing to flee Godstowe Priory . ’ |
| 25 | Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success . |