Example sentences of "[verb] the very [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the sight of Hong Kong 's skyscrapers and sophisticated city lights made the very last traces of that trust vanish into thin air . |
| 2 | The Dents owned the very first car in Baldersdale and that created quite a stir I remember being at school when they first drove it round the place and the teacher brought us all out on to the road to have a closer look at this amazing thing . |
| 3 | ‘ For a start , we got posted the very next day . |
| 4 | The womb represents the very first place in which life takes form . |
| 5 | Because Sandtoft are producing the very first machine made clay plain tile to match the Humberside pantile . |
| 6 | I well remember the excitement of seeing the very first breeding pair on Yell back in the 1950s . |
| 7 | The lengths to which these specialists will go to extract the very last fragment of information are quite extraordinary , some of which are described in detail in chapter 7 . |
| 8 | Although Permutit was not adopted as the company name until some years later , it was in fact Permutit 's forebear who installed the very first ion exchange water softner in the UK in 1911 at Burrill 's Wharf in London 's docklands . |
| 9 | She believed in the reality of something ordained by God and described in a book of Holy Scripture read and remembered for thousands of years ; whereas he believed in the reality of something described in the pages of Saunder 's News-Letter & daily Advertiser , which people were unlikely to remember the very next morning . |
| 10 | One of its team accidently dropped the very first bomb on Nazi Germany . |
| 11 | Do you ever watch the very first series ? |
| 12 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 13 | I can remember the very first time it happened — I was out walking the dog with my mum and a car tooted at us , and my mum said , ‘ Oh , someone thinks your bottom 's nice ’ . |
| 14 | And I was very naughty I , I felt like saying well some of their , they , them are n't er do you remember the very last time we were up in the hospital at the waiting area , there was those two nurses that walked up and down |
| 15 | At the end of the day I had the satisfaction of presiding in the Lords debate on the Bill and noting the very last words in Barbara Castle 's account of the affair : ‘ Now , unexpectedly , I have received a letter of ‘ appreciation ’ from Harold for the ‘ hard work and long hours ’ I have put in over the consultants ' ‘ package ’ . |
| 16 | Joan and her sister Ruth appeared early in the saga , and young Paul opened the very first book of the series . |
| 17 | That 's how I remember the very first day of the war . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember the very first piece I wrote I sent to a friend during the war , ’ Mr. Johnson told the Herald . |
| 19 | When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy . |
| 20 | James and Greg Hendy 's father , now keeping the carpet business afloat when his sons make regular disappearances , is said to have brought the very first Malibu surf board to Cornwall . |
| 21 | Well , I suppose the very first thing we 've got ta ask is just , who or what are these ninety nine sheep ? |
| 22 | While he and Charlotte went steadily ahead making their preparations , Ruth rushed at hers as if the summons to depart might arrive the very next day . |
| 23 | I 'm reading the very first dream : A ballroom , shimmering . |
| 24 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 25 | I say I saw the very first film of it |
| 26 | I said to myself , I 'll not get another like that , but I did the very next ball ! |
| 27 | They were devised in conjunction ( the exact degree of which remains unknown ) with Christian Huygens of Zulichem , who is credited with making the very first pendulum clock in 1656 . |
| 28 | Almost regardless of the use to which the software will be put the very first question that needs to be established is whether the program will accept data from the software you currently use . |
| 29 | Over Whitsun we were on holiday on the Isle of Wight and I dictated the very last corrections to the Green Paper to one of my overworked social security team from a public phone box in Seaview . |
| 30 | I do n't know why people have said that , because I introduced the very first strand minority television , which was on LWT , when we created GayLife . |