Example sentences of "and [verb] it very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sets of hedges are getting very overgrown and make it very difficult for pedestrians who are forced out into the middle of the road with the consequent danger from traffic . |
| 2 | Its presence will indicate hostility towards religion and make it very difficult for people to take religion seriously . |
| 3 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 4 | West Brom boss Ossie Ardiles added : ‘ Wycombe raised their game and made it very difficult for us . ’ |
| 5 | Apprehension about the Spaniards turned out to be unjustified ; they had serious problems with the Dutch , who were moving forward in the West Indies , and also with the trade winds , that blew from the east and made it very hard for ships from the Spanish Main or from the larger islands like Cuba to reach the smaller islands . |
| 6 | It fermented and made it very sweet . |
| 7 | He was speaking in shorthand in a sense and made it very clear that Scottish circumstances would be taken fully into account , and that I will be reaching a decision in due course . ’ |
| 8 | In the first place , Darwin did n't coin it and used it very reluctantly . |
| 9 | I 've used the Alpamayo for backpacking and Nordic ski touring and found it very stable . |
| 10 | Ramsey had read the life of Archbishop Randall Davidson by George Bell and found it very depressing — a noble and unspoilt man inside a sickening system — ‘ the wire-pulling , the hedging , and energy spent on things that do n't matter , and all the sitting on the fence ’ . |
| 11 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 12 | She was pregnant with Maisie when she filmed the scene and found it very disturbing to have to act out the motions of a woman losing her baby . |
| 13 | If you can afford several pairs , then I think that 7 × 50 , 8.5 × 50 and 12 × 40 is a reasonable selection , though recently I borrowed a 10 × 60 pair and found it very useful . |
| 14 | In the last few years , when Select Committee activity has appeared to be itself under scrutiny , we have often tried to answer this question and found it very difficult . |
| 15 | Thankful that in the dim bar her confusion would not be evident , she focused all her attention on her meal , and found it very , very hard to swallow . |
| 16 | He was a very slow writer and found it very difficult to produce what Ben wanted , so the actual work of the libretto was often well behind the work of the music . |
| 17 | ( Rather than Aunt Polly ) I enjoyed this book , and found it very clever , as it was all from Finn 's point of view . |
| 18 | we said that last year to our Neville and found it very boring |
| 19 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 20 | I took her little finger in both my arms , and put it very politely to my lips . |
| 21 | In the evening they both listen-in [ to the radio ] and enjoy it very much , especially the Sunday evening sermons . ’ |
| 22 | I knit with a Brother 830 and enjoy it very much , I also look forward to your magazine each month which helps me quite a lot . |
| 23 | That the strength behaviour of whiskers is no different from that of much bigger crystals was confirmed by Dash who took a large ( 2 cm. ) crystal of silicon , which is normally quite a weak material , and polished it very carefully . |
| 24 | Maud crept to the door and opened it very slowly . |
| 25 | You stick the hook through the slug about a half inch from one end and then cast to a spot where the current will carry the slug beneath the roof of streamer weed , then place the rod in a rod-rest and watch it very carefully . |
| 26 | Francis and Christopher dissolved in laughter , lapped theirs up and declared it very good . |
| 27 | Sometimes he went to West Hampstead and paid a visit to the School , to the commune , and enjoyed it very much and thought how much he would like to live there himself . |
| 28 | So that was one job a and then we had a big used to beg for a an old sack from the stores and open that out and er I used to wash them wash it and get it very soft and clean and hang that up and that 's the way used to clean and keep ourselves cl hands clean . |
| 29 | and get it very quickly without messing about , try this one then , erm , four hundred plus that , plus seventeen point five per cent , and , now then okay , let's do it this way . |
| 30 | And monitor it very closely . |