Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to shudder at the very thought . |
| 2 | But why stop to wonder at the very point where cause for wonder really begins ? |
| 3 | She looked at Mairi , who happened to glance over and catch her eye ; and the woman howled and started to moan at the very sight of the wee lass . |
| 4 | This seems to strike at the very heart of many of the cases which are made against firms of accountants . |
| 5 | Maurice looked hurt at the very suggestion and suddenly Charlotte felt she was seeing beyond what had once been opaque but was now transparent into the cogs and coils of her brother 's mind . |
| 6 | As for magic , which readers of Frazer 's The Golden Bough might suppose to lie at the very centre of the anthropologist 's interests , I can only say that , after a lifetime 's career as a professional anthropologist , I have almost reached the conclusion that the word has no meaning whatever . |
| 7 | Harry looked round desperately for the O'Hanlons to assist him , but the O'Hanlons had fainted at the very outset and had been dragged clear by Ram , who was now trying to fan them back to consciousness with a copy of the Illustrated London News . |
| 8 | No , she had not wanted that , not Papa 's shrewd eyes on her ; she had shivered at the very thought . |
| 9 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 10 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 11 | Saxe-Weimar had arrived at the very nick of time . |
| 12 | ‘ Besides , as Mona will tell you , I 've reformed at the very idea of being put in clink for treason or whatever they call it . |
| 13 | He had begun to tremble at the very thought . |
| 14 | The study of " kinship " really does lie at the very heart of social anthropology and anthropologists argue a great deal among themselves about just what the word is supposed to mean . |