Example sentences of "i a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And that seems to me a very uncharacteristic thing for you to say , ’ Willoughby said firmly . |
| 2 | Suddenly , there stood beside me a very tall figure , six foot six or more , bearded and misty-white in appearance . |
| 3 | That experience , which has brought me to the province so often , has given me a very deep sense of admiration for the resilience and warmth of the people . ’ |
| 4 | Incidentally , he gave me a very nice parting gift — two hundred and fifty pounds . ’ |
| 5 | I know it 's there , but I thought that John struck with me a very powerful note , when he said in his conference speech , I should share these things first in private . |
| 6 | The other major force was Mauro Forghieri , the Ferrari engineer , of whom Niki writes that ‘ he has the psychological finesse of a sand viper ’ and that ‘ when the Ferrari went well and all was perfect , he considered me a very good driver , perhaps the best . |
| 7 | ‘ She said in her letter that she did n't think we could be happy living at Maythorpe House , that she 'd be lonely and probably would n't make me a very good wife . |
| 8 | ‘ Somebody told me a very good memory game to play the other day . |
| 9 | I 'll be back beneath it when the bird bans come off the rest of this stretch of coast on August 15th , unless the military gives me a very good reason not to in the interim . |
| 10 | This single episode gave me a very good picture of Harold Wilson 's qualities and defects . |
| 11 | ‘ No , but he offered me a very good deal . ’ |
| 12 | So it gives me a very good guide as to what 's going on in their minds when they are going through a process . |
| 13 | ‘ It obviously gave me a very good grounding and without it , I would n't be where I am today . |
| 14 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 15 | I took with me a very young airman from the engineering wing and I understood that it was his first flight . |
| 16 | Frank Bloomfield worked most of his life with Ransome , Sims and Jefferies the famous Ipswich firm of agricultural engineers ; and he gave me a very modern illustration of this quality of a serrated edge . |
| 17 | In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect . |
| 18 | When I was playing rugby and I hurt my thumb she actually lent me a very expensive Jaeger coat to keep me warm . |
| 19 | It took me a very long time because I do n't have the kind of face which people immediately commit to memory , but if you keep popping up for thirty-five years , then inevitably people are going to say , ‘ Do n't I know you ? ’ |
| 20 | I mean when I wrote this book of bible poems in fact it took me a very long time and I started all sorts of subjects which I did n't finish , so , no , you have to be obedient to whether the poem intends to get written or not . |
| 21 | JC : Oh yes , that was for me a very great joy . |
| 22 | And each month Boots Pensions Limited pay me a very reasonable pension . |
| 23 | It seems to me a very reasonable conclusion . |
| 24 | Seems to me a very reasonable conclusion , I mean you can redress it up in Freudian terms and say their conscious did it , which is really very similar thing to say , I mean the unconscious becomes a sort of god in that case . |
| 25 | is regarded as being essentially something which is neutral , which always seems to me a very wrong thing to say , I I 'm sure it 's quite incorrect . |
| 26 | Feeding your fish is probably the most important aspect of the hobby , but one which in terms of technical and specific advice seems to me a very grey area indeed , not helped particularly by product-leaflets/literature or indeed product labels as designed by the fish food manufacturers . |
| 27 | That seemed to me a very glamorous job . ’ |
| 28 | This does not seem to me a very sensible strategy , because on the face of it these ideas would appear to be of potential relevance to pedagogic practice . |
| 29 | The fact that the organisers decided that it was time to show Spanish Pop and the French New Realists made sense ; Martial Raysse has always seemed to me a very interesting artist , but he has been ignored outside France . |
| 30 | The man was perfectly cool , but he gave me a very evil look , which made me feel sick in my stomach . |