Example sentences of "[pron] very [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lydia thought herself very slow not to have realised all this before , but then she reflected that the rapidity with which they had learned the circumstances of this secluded family was in itself strange . |
| 2 | Fortunately Chief Petty Officer Richard Saunders RN , my husband 's father , had taught him very early how to box the compass and he was able to bring her north of Scotland , round our north eastern seaboard and bring her in to Chatham dockyard for paying-off . |
| 3 | She knew it was wrong to hate her parents like this , but she was finding it very hard not to do so . |
| 4 | ‘ You must have thought me very slow not to get your meaning days ago . ’ |
| 5 | The interview on 8th at the Western General Hospital is partly fund-raising and John is advising me very strongly not to take it , and I am sure he is right . |