Example sentences of "[verb] very [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your eventual goal is to be able to work very hard for a full three minutes , followed after a one-minute active break by a second three-minute workout . |
| 2 | You should be prepared to work very hard for a pittance . |
| 3 | Riding a bike is a suitable analogy : if you have been pedalling very hard for a while you can stop pedalling and freewheel for a short distance without losing any speed . |
| 4 | So Kalmu was launched on a highly successful career as a shamanistic seer and miracle-worker which enabled him to acquire both wealth and power and hence to compensate very effectively for the severe disabilities under which he laboured on account of his low caste origins . |
| 5 | The temperature could be regulated very exactly for the different needs of caldarium and tepidarium . |
| 6 | I 'm looking very hard for a new amp as a 30th anniversary present to myself and would really like to own a quality ( loud ! ) amp which I can carry in one hand . |
| 7 | But we 'll watch very carefully for the three Luxembourgs at the end of the week , just in case he 's planning a fresh revolt on the stage . ’ |
| 8 | This will do very well for the sort of story that is a combination of the novel of humour ( a story of cumulative comic events ) and the blueprint detective story . |
| 9 | ‘ This will do very well for the moment , ’ he murmured , nibbling her ear , his hands finding at last the soft flesh between her thighs . |
| 10 | For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting ! |
| 11 | This is because humans and dogs rely most on chasing and trapping their prey , whereas cats prefer to lurk in ambush and listen very carefully for the tiniest sound . |
| 12 | It also compensated very thoroughly for the disaster of her relationship with Guy , who received short shrift when he telephoned on his return to London from Wales . |
| 13 | You 've done very well for an hour or so . |
| 14 | Within the overall pattern we must look very carefully for the local variations , realize the implications of both soil and climate , and plan our holding to make the most of the resources . |
| 15 | Whereas previously those who had wealth to bequeath typically provided very handsomely for the eldest son , and at a much reduced level for the rest of their children , a practice became common which implied that children had roughly equal claims on a parent 's resources , with some distinction made on grounds of gender so that women and men inherited different kinds of property . |
| 16 | It worked very well for a while . |
| 17 | First , although it may not take very long for a trained and experienced therapist to analyse a transcript using LARSP , the procedure itself is relatively technical and is likely to take some time to learn from scratch ( Connolly 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Our academic staff will have to compete very hard for the research money to continue their activities , while at the same time maintaining the quality of the teaching they offer students . |
| 19 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 20 | She lay very still for a moment , trying to think . |
| 21 | Since then it had gone very badly for the small Halfling regiment . |
| 22 | When Bernard came out of hospital he did not walk very well for a good long time . |
| 23 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 24 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 25 | Anthony had just left university and was hanging round , not trying very hard for a job . |
| 26 | I slung the letter back into the middle of the pile of correspondence and headed very quickly for the door . |
| 27 | This popular house fills very early with people who return year after year , so book very early for a front room . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought so too , ’ Jenna murmured , trying to get her agitated breathing under control , quite sure that this was doing her no good at all when she had been told to go very carefully for a while . |
| 29 | He stood very still for a moment and then lifted his hand and gently traced a line across her swollen cheek . |
| 30 | Héloise de Rochefort stood very still for a moment , then she covered her face with her hands and began to cry in great , gusty , choking sobs . |