Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
| 2 | You get your own ego to face up to its own problems and to make its own decisions , er as I mentioned before a very painful process and a , and a , and a rather gruelling one . |
| 3 | I came across a very brief report about my mother 's death . |
| 4 | ‘ I came across a very bewildered woman asking for a cigarette and I asked her where she lived and took her home . |
| 5 | — , 59 , of ‘ I came across a very classy furrier 's in Nottingham just as the shopkeeper was putting a jaunty looking ocelot hat on a stand . |
| 6 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 7 | I came upon a very old woman dressed from hat to woollen stockings and high boots in black . |
| 8 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 9 | I know of a very nice hotel in Seabourne where we can enjoy a fabulous meal and afterwards take a romantic stroll by the sea in the moonlight . ’ |
| 10 | I hope you are both as well as you can be , and to make up for my lack of inspiration here is a poem which I discovered in a very nice book of modern Scottish poetry : — |
| 11 | Mr. Tom Andrews , whom I remember as a very old man , had worked at The White Hart Hotel and even in his old age was in demand if a ham had to be sliced for a wedding or similar function . |
| 12 | He looks like I feel on a very bad morning . |
| 13 | I started in a very modest way with the healing ball , an object that must surely figure in all cancer visualization literature . |
| 14 | I shout in a very loud voice that the Republic of Iraq will pay well for atomic scientists . |
| 15 | So I went to a very good secondary school but I was in the A one stream right the way through and I was always within that top three of that A one stream and it gave me confidence and I really got on . |
| 16 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 17 | But your , your point about not being very er positive the interviews that I do I , I do in a very relaxed manner . |
| 18 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 19 | I think in a very general way that men perhaps should be encouraged to realize that women also want to speak up for themselves . |
| 20 | To coin a phrase by John , I live in a very small house said Confucius , but my windows look out on a very large world . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're an offensive shit , Bellybutton , ’ I said in a very friendly voice , but he had already turned his attention away from me because a car had suddenly appeared in the yard . |
| 22 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 23 | I stick to a very strict worming programme , worming them once every six weeks . |
| 24 | The man at Capital told me to hold on , and I waited for a very long time . |
| 25 | David Bowie : ‘ I ran into a very strange type of paranoid person when I was doing ‘ Aladdin Sane ’ very mixed up people , and I got very upset . |
| 26 | I work in a very intuitive way rather than in a calculated manner . |
| 27 | I work in a very male dominated field and the amount |