Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |
| 2 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 3 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |
| 4 | To Pamela 's surprise , the corners of Jan 's pretty mouth lifted fractionally in the very early stages of a smile . |
| 5 | I suggested that the insistent gaze , the awareness of detail , were of the kind we associate with love or hate , while the persistent emphasis on traps or limits that can never be crossed belonged rather with the very different forces of pity or fear . |
| 6 | But if predictability broke down in the very strong gravitational fields in the big bang , it could also break down whenever a star collapsed . |
| 7 | Her legs were long and elongated further by the very high heels which she wore . |
| 8 | By the time the taxi driver pulled up outside the very normal house in the very normal street in one of the suburbs of Nice she had pretty much convinced herself that she was slowly going insane . |
| 9 | So , Jess was chauffeur driven to The Belfry while his girlfriend went home with the very nice man from the AA in the recovery truck . |
| 10 | I went across the course to the stands side to see the horses in the paddock , and then I went up to the very comfy Tribune des Dames , for which the French Racing Authorities so generously send me a badge each year . |
| 11 | Cried off at the very last moment , Mrs Parslow said . |
| 12 | Strategic decisions urgently need to be taken since , as I pointed out in the very first of my articles for NSS in January 1991 , the British economy is now in grave peril . |