Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] at the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know that he also saved my life at the very time we met ? ’ |
| 2 | I was terrified out of my wits at the very idea . |
| 3 | Many of those anomalies were identified by my colleagues at the very outset of the poll tax escapade . |
| 4 | He lay down to sleep , and had a vision of a grand stairway linking heaven and earth , its foot at the very spot where he was lying , and peopled with angels ascending and descending . |
| 5 | It is a paradox that the more Ministers learn about the complex and uncertain causes and circumstances of crime , the less dogmatic they become in their opinions at the very moment when , as Whitelaw found to his cost , they are most vulnerable to censure by their own supporters . |
| 6 | In the mornings I used to sit out in the warm sun of our terrace and read the travellers ' descriptions of the Delhi they knew from their visits at the very apex of the Mughal Empire . |
| 7 | UBI A girl who lifts her skirts at the very moment you wish she would |
| 8 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 9 | It is an idol , a false , man-made attempt at redefining God , and its position at the very heart of the Craft , as the innermost secret , simply serves to show how freemasonry stands on a spurious foundation . ’ |
| 10 | Imagining his grandfather turning in his grave at the very thought , he paid £120 to repair the old one . |
| 11 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ as if we 'd leave you here on your own , ’ said Snodgrass , clicking his tongue at the very idea . |
| 13 | Having raised his standard at the very nadir of France 's fortunes , when to do so seemed a hopeless and almost irrational gesture , he claimed the high ground of principle for himself . |
| 14 | Both features resembled their names to a baffling degree but , despite this , Abu was moved to expound upon them with such fervent body language that we nearly plunged into the ravine and terminated our lives at the very lip of the sacred symbol of where we had begun it . |
| 15 | Go home and write the story of the secret , divulging it to your reader at the very end . |
| 16 | My father who was not conversant with your rituals , was judged by you to be common ; but you consider me to be your equal at the very moment that I am in a position to look down upon my father who was common , and to be ashamed of my grandfather who was working-class . |