Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] at the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall cover our response to the needs of the voluntary sector , of Eastern Europe , of Africa and I shall say a particular few words about the needs of children , the subject which is of course at the very heart of your work . |
| 2 | Gales of laughter at the very idea . |
| 3 | The Yek who ruled this world lived according to a complex code of law at the very core of which was a presumption which affected every part of their existence — the belief that technological advancement was to a great extent incompatible with the maintenance of civilisation . |
| 4 | Then you have a bit of the petal free to get hold of right at the very tip . |
| 5 | As Jane Feuer points out , camp involves a kind of sensibility in which ‘ blank mimicry and a critical edge may coexist ’ , and thereby resembles that form of postmodern parody which Linda Hutcheon defines as a ‘ repetition with critical distance that allows ironic signalling of difference at the very heart of similarity ’ . |
| 6 | Finally at the field of Maledor at the very entrance to the passes of Nagarythe Caledor faced the Witch King himself in battle and defeated the mightiest of his armies , driving them into the marshes of Maledor . |
| 7 | She bursts into tears of pride at the very mention . " |
| 8 | She bursts into tears of pride at the very mention . " |
| 9 | It is bad enough if you corrupt the man , but if you corrupt the woman , you poison the waters of life at the very fountain . ’ |
| 10 | ( Beware of those therapists who seek to charge you for a complete course of treatment at the very beginning , as it is almost impossible to know how well each individual will respond and therefore how many sessions will be needed . ) |
| 11 | Working like hunger at the very bone ? |
| 12 | I was paralysed with fear at the very thought of making eye contact with them , let alone playing the teacher . |
| 13 | Julian Haylock chats with operatic bass Ferruccio Furlanette in Salzburg ; thrown in ‘ at the deep end ’ with Karajan at the very beginning of his career , he is now in great demand . |
| 14 | There was even talk , Frank 's idea , of going to Ireland ( European tours , filling me with excitement at the very thought , were not for the likes of us ) . |
| 15 | How , more than anything , he 'd wanted to tell his family all about her , but how , because Rosemary had shrunk away from him in horror at the very idea , he had given her his solemn promise that , outside this building , her name would never leave his lips . |
| 16 | The coins , therefore , should give a good indication of examples in circulation at the very end of the fourth century . |
| 17 | The principles on which these three kinds of bodies are built are so fundamentally different that it is difficult to believe that they can be related to one another except right at the very roots of the evolutionary tree . |
| 18 | Even Father had all but stood to attention at the very mention of the pucca angrez saab . |
| 19 | Yet , whenever she contemplated a resumption of the life she had enjoyed before her initial meeting with Johnny , she felt a rising panic and a disinclination amounting almost to hostility at the very idea . |
| 20 | Instead ‘ failure ’ is something endlessly repeated and relived moment by moment throughout our individual histories … . feminism 's affinity with psychoanalysis rests above all , I would argue , with this recognition that there is a resistance to identity at the very heart of psychic life . |
| 21 | How was marriage affected by parenthood at the very beginning ? |