Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] very [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a second I thought he was going to hit me , but then he reached into his jacket pocket and brought out a wallet that he unfolded and thrust towards me , giving me just enough time to see that he held the rank of chief inspector , one of the highest ranks in the Bahamian police force , then the wallet was snapped shut and Deacon Billingsley moved to stand very close to me , so close that I could smell the cigar smoke on his breath . |
| 2 | The ‘ heroic lays , which the Beowulf -poet knew and alluded to sound very fine from his allusions , but if we had them we might discover that the fascination came from his art , not theirs . |
| 3 | It never seemed to matter very much to managements , however . |
| 4 | So you know I mean I su I suppose a lo the questionnaire seemed to concentrate very much on how you were outside work . |
| 5 | At times the care they received seemed very far from that of a reasonable concerned parent . |
| 6 | She 'd done very little except cook for them , and run a few messages . |
| 7 | ‘ The regiment saw an exhibition of my work and they commissioned it — which was very brave of them , in a way , as I 'd done very little before that . ’ |
| 8 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 9 | A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money . |
| 10 | Well , well they did try to get a song going once sponsored by the club , it was sung by St Matthews ' choir would you believe , but it , it did n't seem to take off , the football supporters seemed to take very much to their own sort of songs , and they , they 'd pick up songs and chants from other grounds now like the Liverpool song You 'll Never Walk Alone , and they used to sing Away the Lads they used to pick that up from the Newcastle supporters and and |
| 11 | But suddenly it seemed to become very angry with the English visitor , who was talking to it . |
| 12 | It was not long after the autumn of 1977 , that things began to look very bleak for the Romanians . |
| 13 | Is n't it true , for example , that after their humiliation at the Bay of Pigs — an ideal mixture of cock-up and conspiracy — certain American and Cuban extremists began to think very ill of JFK ? |
| 14 | ‘ I felt that I began to get very complacent in my guitar playing and that 's why we asked Craig to leave . |
| 15 | DeFries was not on the road , I was not on the road and I think David began to feel very abandoned by this company MainMan . |
| 16 | About three-quarters of the way down the train Jack began to feel very frightened for the overpowering sense of impending evil became even stronger . |
| 17 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 18 | ‘ She started to grow very short of breath then and the decline was more and more rapid until she could not walk or move around . |
| 19 | I started to get very worried about money indeed . |
| 20 | But perhaps it was just as well that she had this shock , for in her relief at finding the injury comparatively slight , she forbore to say very much about the unexpected guest . |
| 21 | This time he decided to take very little in his wallet . |
| 22 | He appeared to risk very little by letting him live . |
| 23 | One thing that he did make very clear at the end was that if we thought of other things that he should know about , or it would be helpful for him to know about , we should contact him , so he 's left it very open for us to have an ongoing contact which I thought . |
| 24 | Last year the workshop session that followed Mr Barker 's presentation revealed that most publishers appeared to know very little about the financial realities of retailing . |
| 25 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 26 | If Rank seriously thought that his directors could work to order and effectively fill the gap in the release schedules , notwithstanding the audience 's proven affection for US pictures , then he really did know very little about film production . |
| 27 | But the ferocious beast really did look very serious about biting the little hedgehog . |
| 28 | What I did find very distressing in his remarks , er were basically in respect of some of the savings . |
| 29 | He had looked very grave at the thought of all those rotting star fruit , those superannuated pies and fizzing yoghurts . |
| 30 | For this reason above all others she had come very close to declining Philip Swallow 's proposal to nominate her for the Shadow Scheme . |