Example sentences of "had [verb] very [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had looked very grave at the thought of all those rotting star fruit , those superannuated pies and fizzing yoghurts . |
| 2 | For this reason above all others she had come very close to declining Philip Swallow 's proposal to nominate her for the Shadow Scheme . |
| 3 | Alison Wilding is bound in the direction of Karen Schubert , who felt , last year , that he had come very close to having an artist — Rachel Whiteread — win the award . |
| 4 | Cleveland county councillor Mr Keith Legg said that ‘ sensible and prudent budgeting ’ meant the county council had come very close to estimating the actual pay rise when drawing up spending plans for the coming financial year . |
| 5 | Sally 's hand was clutching at her pearls now and she had turned very pale beneath her makeup . |
| 6 | Symbolism had been fun in his early days with her , but it was something that had turned very sour in a live-in situation . |
| 7 | It was true that Ludens , though regularly visiting Pat , had seen very little of Jack and had scarcely exchanged any words with Alison or Franca . |
| 8 | He had seen very little of her and was not at all interested in her . |
| 9 | She had seen very little of Matthew these last few weeks since the dinner party Jenny had invited him to . |
| 10 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 11 | But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT . |
| 12 | Annie herself had grown very fond of the child . |
| 13 | He had always liked her , had grown very fond of her and now he was finding her intensely desirable . |
| 14 | Fortunately this was a case where I had felt very confident of the remedy and close questioning revealed that her appetite had returned , her chest was n't as tight and she did experience feeling better in herself immediately after taking the medicine . |
| 15 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 16 | However , she admitted that she had felt very miserable for 3 or 4 months . |
| 17 | He had moved very close to her now , their bodies almost touching . |
| 18 | Amitha : I do n't think that the organization had thought very much about race and racism until it was forced to . |
| 19 | Last night we said goodbye reluctantly to all the participants on the course at Sian , to whom we had got very attached considering our short stay here . |
| 20 | She also felt that , without realising it , she had become very set in her ways . |
| 21 | As the business had become very profitable by then , a syndicate was set up to buy Savery 's rights . |
| 22 | When we had become very curious about why none of the drains had fallen out , it transpired that she was diligently cutting an inch a day off the other end ! ’ |
| 23 | As secretary of the Entomological Society ( 1876–80 ) he had become very friendly with Charles Darwin [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | She was twenty-four , she was an adult , and she had become very competent at coping with life . |
| 25 | as if Famlio had become very intent on intercepting someone , or something , leaving the planet . |
| 26 | The Padre had become very weak since the end of the rains . |
| 27 | The deer had become very numerous by this time in the New Forest , and there were numerous complaints about their depredations . |
| 28 | In Britain , though , ever since his selection the media had become very excited about Allan Wells , almost willing him to win , to have the come-back that would make for a fairy-tale ending . |
| 29 | Whilst drinking with them in a pub Minton had become very attracted to one of Wirth-Miller 's friends , a sailor called Hogey Carmichael . |
| 30 | Father O'Harte had become very fond of Patrick . |