Example sentences of "had [verb] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to work very hard to satisfy him . |
| 2 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 3 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 4 | Although innovation in particular cases had fostered very high population densities , it was the absence of population growth resulting from both the slave trade and the incidence of disease that provided little general incentive to intensify systems which were an adequate response to the difficulties of the environment . |
| 5 | I had to concentrate very hard to stop myself from running screaming out of the flat . |
| 6 | Rory had looked very hard but had n't been able to decide which was the false eye . |
| 7 | 1950 the economic picture had looked very bleak . |
| 8 | He had looked very grave at the thought of all those rotting star fruit , those superannuated pies and fizzing yoghurts . |
| 9 | For this reason above all others she had come very close to declining Philip Swallow 's proposal to nominate her for the Shadow Scheme . |
| 10 | Alison Wilding is bound in the direction of Karen Schubert , who felt , last year , that he had come very close to having an artist — Rachel Whiteread — win the award . |
| 11 | Cleveland county councillor Mr Keith Legg said that ‘ sensible and prudent budgeting ’ meant the county council had come very close to estimating the actual pay rise when drawing up spending plans for the coming financial year . |
| 12 | In quite a different category from any of the above , this military formation was a successor to the 14 Grenadier Division der Waffen SS ( Galizien ) , which had suffered very heavy losses at Brody in July 1944 . |
| 13 | Sally 's hand was clutching at her pearls now and she had turned very pale beneath her makeup . |
| 14 | Topaz had turned very pale , her eyes filled with such fury that Amsterdam recoiled . |
| 15 | It was October and the nights had turned very cold . |
| 16 | Symbolism had been fun in his early days with her , but it was something that had turned very sour in a live-in situation . |
| 17 | Fleischmann and Pons had done very different things . |
| 18 | She had grown very frail . |
| 19 | They had grown very close . |
| 20 | Annie herself had grown very fond of the child . |
| 21 | He had always liked her , had grown very fond of her and now he was finding her intensely desirable . |
| 22 | His tummy had grown very large and when he walked he could no longer see his thin , mis-shapen legs . |
| 23 | It gave Scarlet the impression that she had grown very old and from now on might just as well go round in her shroud . |
| 24 | Both Simon and Nigel had felt very uncomfortable , and the old bunch had been ‘ cliquey ’ , having little time for these less-affluent and state-educated newcomers . |
| 25 | Fortunately this was a case where I had felt very confident of the remedy and close questioning revealed that her appetite had returned , her chest was n't as tight and she did experience feeling better in herself immediately after taking the medicine . |
| 26 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 27 | As a child he had felt very unnoticed , lost in the middle between older and younger children . |
| 28 | He said that he too had lost an election ; he had felt very bad when the people of new York rejected him , and he could empathize with what the Shah now felt . |
| 29 | However , she admitted that she had felt very miserable for 3 or 4 months . |
| 30 | The father said in evidence that he had felt very angry and felt like assaulting the appellant , who was convicted under section 5 . |