Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at the very " in BNC.

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1 Incidentally , one of the curious phenomena of my library is that when you take out Bleddyn 's autobiography from the shelves it automatically opens at the very page mentioned above .
2 The very impurity which the radical humanist seeks to transcend , only despairingly to rediscover at the very centre of his or her being — this impurity , for the fantasies of transgressive reinscription , is not the ground of its failure but the material upon which it works .
3 Most of the top-flight executive search consultants who now operate at the very top end of the market have developed their search careers by some functional or industry specialisation and there is evidence that this will continue to be an important factor .
4 The question which feminists are raising then strikes at the very core of Christology .
5 This splendid though rather whimsical riverside house was built as a granary , conveniently positioned at the very head of the navigable part of the River Cam along which barges laden with corn could travel from King 's Lynn and the fenland farming areas .
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