Example sentences of "be a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're a very conceited man . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 're a very contradictory person , ’ Julius commented . |
| 3 | " They 're a very hardworking people , " said Paul earnestly . |
| 4 | People offered us support , financial and whatnot , but we needed physical support , we 're a very small community and in a way we were left on our own . |
| 5 | You 're a very healthy young woman . ’ |
| 6 | They 're a very companionable couple , and enjoy spending time together , they go to political meetings , have the family round , work in their magnificent garden . |
| 7 | Obviously , if you 're a very tiny newborn baby , the amount of food you need to er , put on extra pound weight , is , is not going to be the same as if you are a much larger child , and you want to put on proportionately the same amount of X pounds , whatever it would be , it would be same the same proportion of your weight . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're a very thoughtful woman , Grace . ’ |
| 9 | So we were delighted to hear an expert 's view that we 're a very well-balanced bunch of people . |
| 10 | They 're a very supportive family and they 're helping each other through this tragedy at the moment . |
| 11 | They 're a very useful addendum to any press release . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're a very solid person , Preston , ’ said Emily , surprisingly , and with a sigh , when she cuddled up to him afterwards . |
| 13 | But we welcome everybody really , from the age of fifteen or sixteen to seventy , and we turn nobody away and we 're a very warm welcoming group . |
| 14 | I think they 're a very dangerous mode of education because they provide a very stereo-typed image of everything , everybody that they 're talking about if they 're talking about sex , they presume to be able bodied , they 're presumed to be white generally , they 're presumed to be heterosexual , if they 're talking about homosexual then , it 's definitely male lesbians |
| 15 | Any upturn in demand also produces a substantial improvement in profit in several other of our businesses , for instance Westminster Press , Les Echo Lazards Tussaud and I 'd like to remind people that we 're a very second half oriented company and that in the first half of nineteen ninety two we had some major one-off contributions to profits which very much helped the figures , but nonetheless , we 're pleased at the way the trading profits of the operating companies are moving . |
| 16 | ‘ Jay , you 're a very seductive woman , ’ said Lucy . |
| 17 | Somebody somebody who lives quite near , they 're a very nice old couple . |
| 18 | One evening , Ken told Timothy West , she assured him : ‘ You 're a very nice boy to stay up with me and chat about things every night — and I would n't be surprised if the right little lady does n't come along soon . ’ |
| 19 | Instead she smiled , and said , ‘ Well , I 'm sure you 're a very nice wardrobe , Doctor . |
| 20 | ‘ They 're a very nice boot . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're a very close family and I 'm really looking forward to treating them , ’ said ex-miner David , whose three sons are grown up . |
| 22 | We 're a very close family . |
| 23 | ‘ We hear you 're a very clever man , shepherd , ’ added Joseph Poorgrass from behind the maltster 's bed , where he had been hiding . |
| 24 | I appreciate you 're a very clever woman , but then I never took you for a fool . |
| 25 | You 're a very clever absolutely clever boy . |
| 26 | They 're a very established staff you know |
| 27 | ‘ I can see you 're a very obstinate woman , ’ he said . |
| 28 | She says You 're a very good girl , she says Now will yo we shall have a nice Sunday dinner , you see ? |
| 29 | We both know you 're a very good actor , but you 're not a name , are you ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ So you did , and in that case , if you 're a very good girl , I might yet make love to you . ’ |