Example sentences of "[vb -s] very [adv] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
| 2 | ‘ We are making progress but that is n't something that happens overnight , it happens very slowly and almost imperceptibly . ’ |
| 3 | It grows very rapidly and hence needs regular pruning . |
| 4 | For cutting hedges by hand Sandvik 's well-balanced Professional Hedge Shear ( about £32 ) has a long reach and cuts very easily and cleanly . |
| 5 | I have fair skin that burns very easily and barely tans . |
| 6 | You might be forgiven for thinking that I see an ideal speaker-hearer as someone who relies on everyone else to complete his conversational turns , never finishes a sentence , speaks very quickly and often with his mouth full , never answers questions , always repeats himself , says nothing without hedging , and invariably forgets what he wants to say — but who survives , if only by ending his utterance with a triumphant whatchamacallit . |
| 7 | Unless death strikes very quickly and suddenly , he creeps away to where it is proper that a proud wild beast should die — not on one of man 's rags or cushions , but in a lonely quiet place , with his muzzle pressed against the cold earth . ’ |
| 8 | Well it goes very noisily and horribly . |