Example sentences of "[pron] very [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delightful as it was to meet pleasant company in such an unlikely place , I very badly wanted to exchange our fell citations on the other side of this rock . |
| 2 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 3 | I very much wanted to continue with my studies but had to get married in accordance with my parents ' wishes . |
| 4 | Up to that time I had very limited opportunities to conduct and I very much wanted to direct a real concert . |
| 5 | So powerless was I to control the evolution that , even when I very much wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway it proved all but impossible to do so . |
| 6 | I 've come here to do a job I very much want to do , but I refuse to stay and … ’ |
| 7 | You can talk about it to a close friend , though , which very often helps to ease the situation and subsequently make yourself better . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're often full of humans who very seriously want to know what 's going on . |
| 9 | Like everything else in the States the helpings are larger than life and you very soon learn to resist the temptation to start the meal with an appetiser . |
| 10 | We have learned , for example , that when you think of your University days , your department and your friends feature most frequently in your thoughts ; that you prefer the idea of reunions of your department or your contemporaries to University-wide events ; that you like the idea of the regional ‘ roadshows ’ ; and that you very much want to know where all your old friends are and what they 're up to now . |
| 11 | She very much wanted to respect W. 's wishes , but feared that some of the other adolescents in the unit were not helping W. |
| 12 | Either she was left with the excellent non-skiing kindergarten , which she enjoyed but where she did not learn to ski , something she very much wanted to do , or she had to be put into skischool . |
| 13 | She very much wanted to read the letter she had received and she thought of crossing over to the Villa Nazionale . |
| 14 | And so we very nearly had to write the unusual story of the inaugural air mail flight that flew without the air mail . |
| 15 | We very rarely seem to enjoy it , and the pleasure of victory expresses itself mainly as relief from the self-loathing of defeat . ) |
| 16 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We very much want to trace the driver of that vehicle because they might hold vital information which could result in this robbery being solved , ’ added the spokesman . |
| 18 | They want to know that you know it , and they want to feel confident that if they ask you question you can answer it , but they very much want to know what it does for them and how much it 's going to cost them basically . |
| 19 | The use of the tampon creates the right atmosphere for that bacteria to breed , and they very quickly start to attack the immune system of the body . |
| 20 | As a child Vidor had hated the Military Academy at San Antonio and he very much wanted to make ‘ an honest war picture ’ that would correct the excessive jingoism of the normal Hollywood war film . |
| 21 | Not only does development of this kind damage the setting , it very often fails to produce the promised restoration . |