Example sentences of "they [verb] very [det] " in BNC.
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1 | SOON THEY BECAME VERY MUCH AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEIR separation , except that Gina was a little more violent . |
2 | And they became very much afraid and said to one another who then is this , that even the wind and the sea obey him ? |
3 | As well as being taught the basic techniques of childcare , some girls may also need to learn how to give and take love , if they have come from environments in which they experienced very little love and affection . |
4 | Koalas are extreme specialists — they eat very few things besides eucalyptus ; and eucalyptus is packed with fibre , tannins , and aromatic ( ‘ essential ’ ) oils which to most animals would be toxic . |
5 | They push very much the deep cut system in the U K. Deep cut system in in America means that the machine goes forward a distance before any supports are set at all erm and then the supports do set roof falls . |
6 | But they make very little showing in the archaeological record . |
7 | They have now been varied slightly but they make very little difference . |
8 | Fish are pretty tough and if anglers are careful they suffer very little damage . |
9 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
10 | The tropical forests can provide a home for such a specialized and diverse fauna because they undergo very little seasonal change . |
11 | When they repeated their experiment with ozone produced from pure oxygen they found very little effect . |
12 | But of course limits are self imposed , they depend very much upon political will as well as upon resources . |
13 | If you find any faults at all , simply throw the set away and buy a new one ; they cost very little , and it is a false and potentially lethal economy to try to patch up an unsafe set . |
14 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |
15 | Most colonists remained loyal subjects of the King , but they paid very little money to him and his government and they received very little help , financial or military , from it . |
16 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
17 | Most colonists remained loyal subjects of the King , but they paid very little money to him and his government and they received very little help , financial or military , from it . |
18 | If they must be resident in the United Kingdom one should seek to reduce their powers so that they stand very much in the background acting only if things are going drastically wrong with the trust or major investment changes or beneficial ownership changes are to be made . |
19 | When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it . |
20 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
21 | They requires very little ironing and an iron that is too hot will melt the fabric . |
22 | They achieved very little . |
23 | Which is why the clients are sold a plan inappropriately and they cash it in , they get very little back . |
24 | They talked very little about what went on down there among the trees . |
25 | One of the reasons why farmers consume so much water is that they pay very little for it — between 1 and 2 per cent of the price paid in cities . |
26 | Families feel very rejected by professionals erm , in my research I 've found that er , the families of younger sufferers tend to be involved in treatment but they feel very much that they 're under the microscope , that they disapprove , that they 're seen as being pathological families . |
27 | They deal very much with the breakup of the family . |
28 | They needed very few . |
29 | Nobody likes to admit that they entertain very little , or that they rarely enjoy it when they do . |
30 | Working on corpora of North American conversational data , they proceed very much from the bottom-up trying to establish the smallest units first . |