Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , as I said at the very beginning of this series of lectures , you must n't treat what as I say as gospel erm I am perfectly capable of being a little bit eccentric , possibly even a little bit erm original erm in my interpretations . |
| 2 | She laughed at the very thought of it because she doubted it was possible because her conception of God was too small . |
| 3 | In other words , friends at the school and the idea , as you said at the very beginning of your paper , is to report without any kind of erm censorship or judgment . |
| 4 | Admittedly such corollaries as ‘ Face facts ’ , which we introduced at the very start of the discussion in the first chapter , do support their authority by the urgency of factual awareness in choices of means . |
| 5 | At least she would n't either bully or patronise him , his usual lot amongst the cathedral clergy , ranking as he did at the very bottom of the cathedral hierarchy . |
| 6 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |