Example sentences of "the [noun sg] very [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have to judge the force of the blow very carefully and you 'd expect it to leave more than a slight bump . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Quinn 's sons completed the contract very efficiently and successfully . |
| 3 | More non-enrollers than migrants said they intended to do a course in the future ( 63% compared with 40% ) and the non-enrollers were also much more likely to say they wanted to start the course very soon and had made enquiries about it . |
| 4 | ‘ However , we will continue to monitor the association very closely and will meet regularly with the ABA . |
| 5 | A Sandringham insider said : ‘ He learnt of the wedding very late because arrangements were kept secret . ’ |
| 6 | Heat the liquid without the wool very slowly until lukewarm , then add the wool and take from 1–2 hours to reach simmering point from that stage , then simmer for 10 minutes . |
| 7 | When an agent telephones the company with an order , the computer operator is able to tell the agent very quickly whether the goods required are in stock . |
| 8 | He was out of the car very speedily and Jenna felt a quick burst of fright . |
| 9 | This allows you to monitor the work very carefully and help a group with a task that they might find very difficult if unsupervised . |
| 10 | World Cup organisers are reluctant to talk about security arrangements for next year , except to say they are treating the issue very seriously and seeking help and advice from foreign police forces . |
| 11 | ‘ The police and ambulance arrived on the scene very rapidly and the other driver admitted that it was her fault . |
| 12 | My private office helped out on the baby-sitting very effectively but I am sure quite improperly . |
| 13 | Over the past decade , the care of that group has been privatised : the hon. Member for Macclesfield illustrated the process very clearly when he referred to an excellent nursing home in his constituency , a fairly large institution containing trained nurses . |
| 14 | I have some illustrative figures in front of me erm which I I thought a question of this nature might , might crop up , erm th the figures are n't absolutely accurate , they were pulled off the file very quickly and er they may be out by er er er er a small amount , but they , they certainly illustrate the point . |
| 15 | For this purpose I line the cone first with kitchen foil and then cover the outside with knitting , tying the point very firmly and finishing it with a tassel or small ‘ frill ’ . |
| 16 | I 'm sure that they could have found other examples where solicitors were not doing the job very well and were charging a lot of money because let's be realistic there are good solicitors and there are bad solicitors and I would n't pretend otherwise . |
| 17 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 18 | And trainer Paul Cole said yesterday : ‘ She 's come out of the race very well and has eaten up . |
| 19 | I am quite clear that I shall have to go into the evidence very carefully when the police report is available to me . |
| 20 | Many readers , particularly those 50 years and above , remember the day very clearly and with affection when the above were part of everyday life in this country . |
| 21 | ‘ She remembers the day very well and it was wonderful to talk about it again . |
| 22 | ‘ She remembers the day very well and it was wonderful to talk about it again . |
| 23 | And that you know , look at the traffic very seriously and see whether it was merited or not and that maybe greater use of the mobile . |
| 24 | ‘ We hope to get it off the ground very shortly and it will be run in conjunction with the Women 's Hospital . ’ |
| 25 | Shelley cleaned the wound very thoroughly and bound it up with a clean dressing . |
| 26 | But even in the 1860s , the notion that a " mere girl " might learn the trade very quickly and be doing as well as a man in a short time , was not only a threat to employment but a threat to the craftsman 's pride in his skill . |
| 27 | We enjoyed the moderator very much when you was a |
| 28 | This is because the market and its practitioners know the sequence very well and also because profit can be made ( or losses minimised ) by anticipating events . |
| 29 | He walked out on to the pipe very slowly and carefully . |
| 30 | I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel . |