Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] with [art] very " in BNC.

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1 And finally tonight Moseley rugby club have come up with a very different approach to pre-season training , I have to tell you it is not what you 'd expect from the lads from the Readings .
2 The furniture of the room was very homely , of course — a few rough chairs and a table , a comer cupboard with their little stock of crockery and delf , a gaudy tea tray , representing a lady in bright red , walking out with a very blue parasol , a few common , coloured Scripture subjects in frames upon the wall and chimney , an old dwarf clothes-press and an eight-day clock , with a few bright saucepans and a kettle , comprised the whole .
3 A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza .
4 Mark came in with a very respectable time of three and a half hours in his first marathon .
5 He solved her problem because when he came in with a very satisfied-looking Candace Rainford beside him he came straight over to Maggie .
6 supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait .
7 Amitha : Then the Union Working Party on EOP in which the three of us were involved came up with a very well worked-out response to the EOP Code of Practice on Recruitment and Selection Procedures .
8 I came up with a very simple answer to this problem and hope it will help others .
9 He became aware that the Boulton & Watt steam-engines installed in so many factories in the first quarter of the nineteenth century could no longer be coaxed to produce more power to meet ever-growing demands , and he came up with a very elegant solution which prolonged the useful life of these engines by many years .
10 ‘ I took every precaution possible to ensure he did n't come into contact with the virus but he still came back with a very dirty nose and coughed very badly . ’
11 The tenth case got off with a very stern reprimand from Matron and a very black mark against her name for the rest of her career .
12 I had no idea what it was , but it certainly tasted good , all being washed down with a very good red wine .
13 PJ , however , is lining up with the very best .
14 Try to avoid an approach which ends up with a very small amount of airbrake .
15 ‘ I mean , letters like that are just a laugh , are n't they ? ’ she rushed on with a very poor effort at bravado .
16 Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today .
17 And you thought , ooh it 's going to be fifty degrees because of because we started off with a very easy number three pound sixty .
18 Finally , whatever else you do , if you want to keep up with the very latest versions of software , it 's pointless pirating .
19 ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug …
20 And yet , if you join those two inert things together in the right ratios they go off with a very big bang .
21 There may be , within this bonfire — and until it 's taken apart we will not be able to ascertain this — there may be petroleum cans in there , there may be small L P G cylinders , all of which will go off with a very large explosion and possibly cause some injury to life .
22 But Louisa , who had been brought up with her father 's constant comment that she was ‘ the prettiest girl in the world ’ , grew up with a very unreal need to feel praised and fêted for her looks , and when as a teenager she did n't get the same kind of compliments from other people , she not surprisingly felt unloved and unattractive as a result .
23 In most accountancy practices you have very few of those — and you do n't have any I-Preserves either , who are good at relationships and making people feel warm and wanted , so you end up with a very cool , intellectual kind of set-up ’ .
24 Starting from the logic of sustainability , we end up with a very similar size for a new community to the one that Howard was writing about a hundred years ago .
25 Measurements were taken and delivered along with a very roughly drawn sketch .
26 I do n't like doing movies anymore but I really enjoyed this , ’ and he did come up with a very eloquent retraction , which no one printed . ’
27 Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’
28 Which rather proves a point that in fact it was a low period , and therefore if you take a low period historically , which is er includes a a boom in inverted commas , within that , then overall you 're going to end up with a very low figure er in total .
29 erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances .
30 He kicked off with a very comfortable success in Division One of the Restricted on Jim Papworth 's Melton Park , who made light of his 7lb. penalty in his fourth victory of the season , and followed up in Division Two on Paylins .
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