Example sentences of "and [verb] very [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt absolutely no ill effects whatsoever , but then I was very fit , playing a lot of rugby and eating very well . ’ |
| 2 | Under the trade names Miltown and Equanil , it was widely advertised , especially in the United States , and became very generally known . |
| 3 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 4 | They are frequently hauled off to prison and treated very badly , beaten and insulted , at times , even raped . |
| 5 | Bring to the boil , then cover and simmer very slowly for 1–1&hr , until the turkey is tender . |
| 6 | Transfer to a large frying pan with a lid , bring to the boil , then cover and simmer very gently for 4 minutes , turning the fish once . |
| 7 | Cover the pan and simmer very gently for about 20 minutes . |
| 8 | Bring to the boil and simmer very gently for 5 minutes to allow the flavours to develop . |
| 9 | We walked round the beach and got very close in to a colony of seals , and later , the others had a trip in a glass-bottomed boat to observe marine life . |
| 10 | Employees offered a transfer which involves relocation overseas will consider the pros and cons very carefully , as accepting such a transfer is a major step to take . |
| 11 | He was white faced and moved very slowly and painfully . |
| 12 | Harold Ickes , who took charge , was anxious to avoid waste or corruption and moved very cautiously . |
| 13 | A short check-out in Biggin Hill 's busy circuit soon confirmed the aircraft 's conventional handling and demonstrated very adequately the shock resistance of the superb trailing-link retractable landing gear . |
| 14 | You see impressionism is n't art about anything very much , it 's art as description — a very lively , lovable form of description , pure and simple — whereas normally art has been full of messages and meaning and didacticism if you like — full of morality and sermonizing very often , and that is normal for art . |
| 15 | Stir in the flour , add a tablespoon of the stock and cook very gently for 2–3 minutes . |
| 16 | Right and also comments and suggestions although we 've been in the business for a number of years , er comments and suggestions are always er welcomed and and and considered very carefully . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ I can see you have worked on this opera for many months and concentrated very hard . |
| 18 | But in truth she 'd found it difficult to sustain her patronising English mix of prurience and pity very long . |
| 19 | When the time comes , it can recoup any water loss and rehydrate very rapidly , although not by drinking . |
| 20 | He flung out his arm across the parapet of the bridge and laughing very loudly , said : — |
| 21 | Then she had gone into the garden and played cricket with Oliver , running up and down and laughing very loudly so that they should hear her next door and know she was n't tired at all . |
| 22 | As George Hickes wrote in May 1687 , in reference to the Magdalen College affair , " non r[esistance] is always a duty , and noncomp[liance] very often is " . |
| 23 | The omission is significant : the danger is perceived as entirely pertaining to religious believers , and illustrates very well the hold which a secular view has on him and on the educational world in Britain and in the United States . |
| 24 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
| 25 | Sipping her drink , she settled down to be quiet , and tried very hard not to be so aware of Feargal so close beside her . |
| 26 | The police and the probation service , on the other hand , could impose sanctions , though whether they would have had any effect on Willy , who ‘ was extremely rude and behaved very badly towards all authority ’ , is open to doubt . |
| 27 | As I was much smaller than him , he was very rude to me and behaved very badly , especially when nobody was looking . |
| 28 | Now it 's glossy cream and pale blue and beautiful , but I find myself looking out of the window at the broken slats of the fence between our house and the next , and understanding very well why canals and tulips and windmills and clear blue Dutch skies had been important to the woman who had stood in that kitchen before me . |
| 29 | We crawled through the bushes ; real ambush stuff , straight down the road , into the van and drove very fast . |
| 30 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |