Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revenue obtained a huge sum of money which they had no right to demand and they are now hanging on to a very large amount of interest which they have no moral right to retain . |
| 2 | When Talbot returned to the bridge he could see the marker buoy just astern , bobbing gently in the very small wake Van Gelder was creating as he edged the Ariadne gently to the north-west . |
| 3 | We were climbing away at a very gentle angle and I could not understand why I could not move the controls . |
| 4 | Beyond the final lock , the canal joined a river , opening up into a very wide stretch of water , bounded by pleasant meadows and with scores of mooring places , most of them occupied . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We will be living together in a very small space . |
| 7 | ’ Her voice turned tired , wandering slightly like a very old woman 's . |
| 8 | EIGHTY factory workers were looking forward to a very merry Christmas — until their boss gave them just one bottle of whisky between them . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not married at the moment , but I am looking forward to a very happy future with Natasha 's father . |
| 10 | They get typically twice or two and a half times the salaries that our people get and that 's being going on for a very long time . |
| 11 | There 's a lot going on at a very fast speed . |
| 12 | Mr Kinnock 's voice was choked with emotion as , refusing to concede defeat , he said : ‘ Even now as the recounts are going on in a very large number of seats the results of this election is not decided . ’ |
| 13 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |
| 14 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 15 | PJ , however , is lining up with the very best . |
| 16 | The next thing I do remember is waking up in a very grand house a few streets away from where the robbery took place . |
| 17 | Finally I reached Maymyo , to find my family camping out in a very small house , all three children down with scarlet fever . |
| 18 | Coburn wrote his first four part storyline in two sections , starting with the quest for fire plot , which he named ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ before going back to the very first episode , which had to be a more collaborative effort with the Script-Editor and the Producers . |
| 19 | Well going back to the very first meeting that we had |
| 20 | ‘ We are moving away from a very inward looking , functional type of structure . |
| 21 | They had been moving steadily through a very thick part of the forest in which it was impossible to maintain a constant direction for more than a few paces . |
| 22 | One white lone mother in my study noted that her mother was also a woman coping alone on a very limited income : ‘ she 'd rather put us first but I do n't want to see her go without . ’ |
| 23 | Return the custard to the pan and heat gently , stirring continuously over a very low heat until it thickens . |
| 24 | Although it is vital not to get too high , there is no advantage trying to fly very close to the ground , except perhaps when taking off from a very short field . |
| 25 | Money has been rolling in from a very wide range of fund raising activities undertaken by JM sites and individuals around the country . |
| 26 | At the other side of the piano James Callaghan , then Prime Minister , was talking animatedly to a very distinguished-looking Admiral , while through it all the Queen and Prince Philip moved easily , chatting to their guests . |
| 27 | They 're floating around in a very , I mean Today was the worst . |
| 28 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |
| 29 | But a substantial part must also have resulted from the new investment overseas which was now being wholly financed by borrowing overseas at a very low real rate of interest . |
| 30 | From a staging point of view the PGA and the Tour , working together in a very harmonious way , should be delighted with the way it all worked out . |