Example sentences of "at [pron] very [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspector Drew was looking at me very closely , and I felt rather like a naughty schoolboy under the stern gaze of the headmaster . |
| 2 | One of the social workers had come into the office and was looking at me very strangely . |
| 3 | He looked at me very quizzically . |
| 4 | He stared at me very hard for a moment . |
| 5 | Mr Flood the butcher had looked at them very strangely as they walked up the street . |
| 6 | ’ He looked at them very gently . |
| 7 | I love to play Cardiff though , I 'm at my very best there . ’ |
| 8 | I want to be at my very best tonight . |
| 9 | Imagine how good it would feel to harness that power and use it when things are at their very best . |
| 10 | Ten Bel at its very best . |
| 11 | At its very best |
| 12 | She speaks of it as a tremendously rich and enlarging experience , ‘ Friendship expressed at its very best , I think ’ . |
| 13 | The notable Largo represents the ‘ Ensemble Pian & Forte ’ at its very best , the continuo theorbo adding to the tonal colour whilst the organ is silent . |
| 14 | It was at its very best in between shows of Re:Joyce. / Two-and-a-half hours on stage , alone , but for my mystical meditator Denis , followed by another two-and-a-half hours is not your average form of relaxation . |
| 15 | Traditional Irish music and song at its very best rolls down the curtain on the Festival folk music programme for another year . |
| 16 | " They just look at you very closely , " he told us . |
| 17 | Er I 'm sorry to throw all those at you very quickly , but they are er obviously five minutes left and |
| 18 | ‘ Your thick-skinned vagrant daughter is not at her very best . ’ |
| 19 | Brown had to be at her very best in the breaststroke event as Emma Robinson of Coleraine pushed her all the way , finishing just 0.6 secs behind in the runner-up spot . |
| 20 | She established herself firmly in her parents ' house once again , with the addition of her daughter , and decided that , as she did not appear at her very best when moving due to her injury , she would remain on a sofa all the time . |
| 21 | The younger man looked at her very sadly . |
| 22 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 23 | He was looking at her very intently now . |
| 24 | He looked at her very intently for a moment . |
| 25 | He looked at her very steadily . |
| 26 | I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone . |
| 27 | He just looked at her very comprehensively , his eyes roaming over her , and then he nodded politely and led the horse away . |
| 28 | She was looking at him very intently . |
| 29 | ‘ I do promise , ’ said Fergus , and Dierdriu looked at him very intently . |
| 30 | ‘ Caspar , ’ said Fenella , looking at him very intently . |