Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at the very [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had begun to tremble at the very thought . |