Example sentences of "very [adv] do n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Shiona very nearly did n't make it in time . |
| 2 | But Mrs Miniver very nearly did n't get beyond two years old , when a fall into a nearby river almost proved fatal . |
| 3 | But it was a role he very nearly did n't get when the film 's backers decided he had become too difficult to handle . |
| 4 | But the second year with HRC very nearly did n't happen . |
| 5 | It very nearly did n't happen . |
| 6 | ‘ That all hinges on Nigel Steen having a financial motive to kill his father , and , as you just observed , he very positively did n't have such a motive . ’ |
| 7 | It 's gone , it 's gone I do n't very often agree with Professor erm I very often do n't agree with David either but I 've got to admit that I agree with both of them today , we 've got to make haste slowly on this one . |
| 8 | They very often do n't know what the something else is going to be , but we tend to put time limits on what children should do and when they should do it . |
| 9 | A woman who wanted a divorce because her husband made love to her not very often and not very well did n't get it . |
| 10 | You know , very very does n't put himself above anybody else , airs and graces and all , when you see him . |