Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] 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 | But who you see at the very beginning they must have established what the roles were . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Local authorities were anxious to redevelop the area as soon as possible , as it lies at the very heart of the town 's commercial district . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is an argument that treason is a more serious offence , since it strikes at the very foundations of the State and its social organizations , but treason is so rare that it is surely permissible to treat homicide as the most serious form of crime . |
| 9 | Will the Secretary of State answer that question truthfully because it strikes at the very heart of democracy ? |
| 10 | It strikes at the very fundamentals of a free press , by placing a cost barrier on access to information . |
| 11 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |
| 12 | It begins at the very beginning . |
| 13 | But worse is that it comes at the very moment Davies and Jeff Young , the WRU technical director , and forward-looking others have put into place a representative structure designed to facilitate the flow of full international candidates . |