Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the very [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 2 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 3 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 4 | I came from the very opposite . |
| 5 | But her greatest thrill of all came on the very day they were going home , for the Brownie Guider from Stowbridge came to see them off and she brought the exciting news that a second Pack was being formed at Stowbridge and that the way was now wide open for Brenda to become a Brownie . |
| 6 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
| 7 | Thus , safe and composed , we arrived in the very heart of Derbyshire 's beautiful and historic Peak District , looking forward to our three day stay and in plenty of time for dinner . |
| 8 | Thus , safe and composed , we arrived in the very heart of Derbyshire 's beautiful and historic Peak District , looking forward to our three day stay and in plenty of time for dinner . |
| 9 | Tim climbed to the very top of the tree . |
| 10 | Irene Markham indicated for her to sit down and she perched on the very edge of an upright chair suddenly feeling quite miserable and wishing she had n't come . |
| 11 | The blood of my forefathers , all men of the sea … tingled at the very thought . ’ |
| 12 | God were good , but hampered by the very technology that is supposed to help them get their message across . |
| 13 | There is a dank muskiness purveyed through the very stone of the walls and the original plaster of the unexpectedly beautiful vaulting . |
| 14 | One landed in the very centre of er East Grinstead too . |
| 15 | Joshua 6 belonged to the very beginning of the story of conquest and settlement . |
| 16 | I found it my calling to be the one in the NME office who flinched at the very sight of their wibbly-wobbly figurines and pretend four-track album which was really 12 tracks , the over-educated jessies ! |
| 17 | In part this failure of the middle classes to present a unified political front arose from the very intransigence of the regime . |
| 18 | More recently there was Geoffrey Prime , who worked in the very heart of GCHQ ( see Chapter 4 ) , and Michael Bettaney , an MI5 officer whose drunken and strange behaviour was in many ways reminiscent of Guy Burgess 's yet similarly went undetected until reported by a defector ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 19 | But to an Elf people desperate for stability , shocked to the very core by their sundering with their kin of Naggaroth , he promised a familiar hand at the tiller . |
| 20 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
| 21 | How much to vary the product according to the market was a problem which hit at the very heart of the business . |
| 22 | After a very pleasant lunch therefore , I taxied to the very end of the runway , turned into wind and took off . |
| 23 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 24 | They plunged over the very edge of the human capacity to feel . |
| 25 | A cry , pure and primal , came from her lips , and was followed by deep shudders of sensation that felt like the very earth trembling . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew from the very start that you sent that poison pen letter , Eleanor . |
| 27 | For Angell the key evidence of the irrationality of war lay in the very delicacy of the newly evolved mechanisms of international finance . |
| 28 | The reason for its absence , or at least its lack of recognition , lay in the very fabric of Aboriginal society itself , the integrating force of which was religion . |
| 29 | I went to the very edge and walked along it like a tightrope . |
| 30 | This went to the very heart of an ideal that , although lacking cohesion , was encapsulated in Labour 's programme and no other . |