Example sentences of "at the very idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Gales of laughter at the very idea . |
| 3 | I was terrified out of my wits at the very idea . |
| 4 | Dorothy would leave and abandon her at the very idea . |
| 5 | The rest of the traders , however , again expressed shock/horror at the very idea and were usefully sententious with it . |
| 6 | It 's from both of them , repeated verbatim despite the howls of protest raised at the very idea of it all . |
| 7 | Spotting the publisher delegates blanching at the very idea , he added , reassuringly : ‘ In the US the publishers price to cope with the secondhand market , and with discounting too . |
| 8 | If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened . |
| 9 | ‘ as if we 'd leave you here on your own , ’ said Snodgrass , clicking his tongue at the very idea . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The little man had appeared shocked at the very idea that Alfred might be suspected of killing his brother yet he had gone on , with a certain relish , to provide a convincing motive — if a motive which has lain dormant for thirty years is still convincing . |
| 12 | You 'll be laughing , Mrs Gage , at the very idea — this time next year , perhaps . |
| 13 | The other part was reeling at the very idea of Dane Jacobsen on the snowy slopes of Glenshee with her . |
| 14 | For the first time in many months she contemplated the uncontemplatable , and thought that it might not be so with him , even though her heart began to thud uncomfortably at the very idea . |
| 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 | Paige said quickly , heart thumping at the very idea . |
| 17 | Fabia gasped , appalled at the very idea . |