Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the very [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no doubt that , in the light of developments , the Government and our Community partners will be looking at the very matters to which my hon. Friend has drawn attention . |
| 2 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 3 | The other part was reeling at the very idea of Dane Jacobsen on the snowy slopes of Glenshee with her . |
| 4 | It was such a jolly little lighthouse , white , and standing at the very end of a promontory . |
| 5 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 6 | But of course they were quoting at the very top of Leamington 's rate , and since then it 's gone right down . |