Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vitor entered her and Ashley 's hips lifted , meeting the hard rhythmic thrusts which seemed to penetrate to the very depths of her womb . |
| 2 | And as the last shots were being fired , the Syrian tank came to rest outside the very door of the building which housed Lebanon 's ‘ democratic ’ parliament . |
| 3 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 4 | Once again , my life seemed to depend on the very words she spoke . |
| 5 | He heard a howl which seemed to rise from the very bowels of the earth : long , cruel and haunting . |
| 6 | She seemed to shudder at the very thought . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then yet more came and brought with them great Stones which one day they started to take to the very centre place of Callanish itself . |
| 9 | That notion needed rejecting from the very start . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No , she had not wanted that , not Papa 's shrewd eyes on her ; she had shivered at the very thought . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He tore a page from his notebook , offered it with a pencil to Sharpe , then volunteered his own patrol to take the despatch to General Dornberg 's headquarters in Mons. Dornberg was the General in charge of these cavalry patrols which watched the French frontier , and finding one of his officers had been a stroke of luck for Sharpe ; by pure accident he had come across the very men whose job was to alert the allies of any French advance . |
| 15 | Around them lay the litter of kit they had carried to the very top of the big old house ; to cabin 9 , their strange bare room . |
| 16 | He had crept to the very edge of the wood to watch it and while he was there had heard the faint sound of hooves on stones and occasional voices . |
| 17 | Then he raised his wings and lifted himself up as Slorne had done to the very top of his cage . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Guided by the Emperor 's own harsh wisdom and foresight , they had experimented on the very stuff of Chaos and upon slaves permanently immobilized in nutrient vats , and upon prisoners . |
| 20 | This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map . |
| 21 | Saxe-Weimar had arrived at the very nick of time . |
| 22 | Julius stood and watched her go , and wondered what else she would have said to him if she had known the complete truth ; that he had known from the very start exactly who had sent that poison pen letter to her . |
| 23 | These offers were meant to demonstrate that the two younger brothers had gone to the very limit of reasonable concessions , and hence would bear no guilt for the casualties of battle . |
| 24 | He had passed by the very spot only the other day , and it had brought tears to his eyes . |
| 25 | In the early days of their marriage they had lived in the very heart of London , close to the centres of business , art and culture . |
| 26 | He was obviously interested in the past history of the house , and , by the time they returned to the dance-floor , all her irrational fears and instinctive wariness of the tall dark man by her side had receded into the very back of her mind . |
| 27 | In the guise of a beggar-maid , and fair , like a fugitive princess of romance , she sat concealed in the very heart of her dominions . |