Example sentences of "have [verb] very [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I feel that our power has grown very much and that we are now hand in hand with the comrades in Namibia . |
| 2 | Tomlin is also talking to Rover Cars which has produced very acceptable and popular 218 and 418 turbo powered diesel cars . |
| 3 | The problem in understanding the present structure of the universe is that , after evolving for 10 billion years following the big bang , it has become very clumpy and matter has aggregated into galaxies and clusters and superclusters of galaxies . |
| 4 | Since then the remaining female , which is 8″ in size , has become very aggressive and destructive . |
| 5 | Mr. Frank Compton , committee member , of No. 118 has kindly agreed to act as Secretary for this event which has proved very popular and enjoyable in previous years . |
| 6 | ‘ But they have always said that the Queen has remained very friendly and helpful to Diana through her illness and her marriage problems . |
| 7 | Joan has worked very hard and conscientiously during her term of office but she feels that a fresh look at the job through a new treasurer in 1987 can only be of benefit to the Society . |
| 8 | He has worked very hard and the result is bound to be very close . ’ |
| 9 | In this landscape , which Richard learned to know well , the idea of a holy war against the Saracens must have seemed very real and very close at hand . |
| 10 | No because I , no , I well , it 's is , I know people who say well I 've heard very little and I know that 's enough for them to have very good friends . |
| 11 | Previously , she had said very little and her husband kept the conversation going . |
| 12 | His tummy had grown very large and when he walked he could no longer see his thin , mis-shapen legs . |
| 13 | It gave Scarlet the impression that she had grown very old and from now on might just as well go round in her shroud . |
| 14 | The father said in evidence that he had felt very angry and felt like assaulting the appellant , who was convicted under section 5 . |
| 15 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 16 | You had to look very cheerful and normal while you worked so that no one would guess you were praying . |
| 17 | Barry reckons we 've become very self-centred and that money now means everything . |
| 18 | Nowadays , we 've become very restricted and very specialised in our skills . ’ |
| 19 | The Roman Church had become very powerful and dismissed the Greeks as impious heretics who were not on the same level as the holy church of the West . |
| 20 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 21 | I found that I had become very tired and once again Boris said ‘ It 's time to go . ’ |
| 22 | In fact , the land had become very open and flat at that point , enabling one to see a considerable distance in all directions , and the spire of Salisbury Cathedral had become visible on the skyline up ahead . |
| 23 | She had become very quiet and sad since her relationship with Linton had ended , and was very worried about her father 's illness . |
| 24 | Miss Harker 's face had become very pale and serious . |
| 25 | My mouth had gone very dry and my bladder suddenly seemed very full . |
| 26 | Peg had gone very pale and her hands fluttered over Anna anxiously . |
| 27 | Madame Gloriana had gone very pale and was staring with a look of puzzlement . |
| 28 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 29 | They have to go very steady and to the right of the first , to the left of the second and over the top of the last . |
| 30 | Even at this early stage , she has found some centres which have developed very innovative and imaginative ways of using the opportunities offered by these new qualifications . |