Example sentences of "the very [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother has asked me to tell you how appreciative she is of your splendid BBC TV programme last Friday evening … knows what trouble you went to in the very limited time at your disposal … your wonderfully successful endeavour clear for all to see ’ , etc. , etc .
2 ‘ Pleased to meet you , ’ she had responded , for the very first time since her arrival at Loch Lomond feeling unaccountably awkward and strange .
3 Jessamy found herself remembering how it had been the very first time between them , it had been exactly the same , this sudden wanting .
4 Now , briefly , possibly for the very first time in his life , he felt helpless and miserable at one and the same time .
5 Then , for the very first time in my life , a faint light flickered somewhere inside me .
6 For the very first time in her life she needed someone .
7 Well , in this view — quite possibly for the very first time in the history of their occupations — publishers and booksellers are wrong .
8 He had felt sure when he left his hotel room that every eye in Saigon would be on him that evening because he was wearing a white tuxedo for the very first time in his young life .
9 and ran the race three-legged , and finished in the very respectable time of five hours 21 minutes .
10 It was the very best time for the children .
11 This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany .
12 The theatre was completed in the very short time of two years .
13 As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic .
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