Example sentences of "she [verb] very [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She read very few thrillers ; they reminded her of work . |
| 2 | ‘ She drinks very little and she never prostituted herself . ’ |
| 3 | She reported very little to us , I mean to Dieter . |
| 4 | She contributed very little to the conversation as they ate their meal . |
| 5 | As Katharine is away at university , she has very little time to ride . |
| 6 | ‘ She has very little regard for other people 's property and other people 's lives now , which was n't how she was a few years ago . |
| 7 | The traditional novel writers like Jane Austen are essentially objective and descriptive , Jane Austen for example describes events and people in a basic narrative style , she has very little involvement with any kind of thought life ; the actions made dictate the novel almost completely . |
| 8 | Among the Arapesh , she found very few ‘ natural differences ’ in men 's and women 's behaviour , with neither sex exhibiting aggression : women did the heavy carrying ( because of their supposedly strong foreheads ) , and the men lay with their wives during and after childbirth , ‘ sharing ’ the pain and strain . |
| 9 | Every day , when she went to the shops , she spent very little money . |
| 10 | She was exhausted with work and grief over her mother 's early death , a mother she loved very much . |
| 11 | Then Julius 's mouth closed over hers again , his hands began a series of loving , teasing caresses , and Jessamy forgot everything except that this was her brilliant , stubborn , bullish husband whom she loved very much , and a bright future suddenly shone in front of them . |
| 12 | The pace of business growth is such that she finds very few spare moments for leisure-time activities . |
| 13 | Her skin was honey-coloured and , except for having probably retraced her mouth and eyebrows , she wore very little make-up for the time . |
| 14 | She wore very little make-up and a thoroughly modest frock . |
| 15 | It was apparent to Cassie that the discovery that she wore very little beneath her outer clothing had had a powerfully erotic effect upon him , and now he pushed aside the bodice and gazed at her breast , at the same time remarking appreciatively : ‘ You 're an astonishing girl , Cassie . |
| 16 | About Daniel 's Mum she knew very little . |
| 17 | She knew very little about art and could n't tell if the paintings were brilliant or not . |
| 18 | She knew very little about surgery and nothing about childbirth , but she had a fund of common sense , and the moment she had pushed through the useless , wailing women downstairs , and seen the squalid room in which Dr Neil was working , she had begun to dredge up what little she knew in order to help him . |
| 19 | She knew very little about him after all , had no idea what he did when he went to Dublin , or Kildare . |
| 20 | For one thing , she knew very little of the Empress 's plans and had sensed Ypres 's disappointment in her replies . |
| 21 | No men in her life , really , not even her natural father , because he 'd gone away , emigrated , so she knew very little about men . |
| 22 | No , thank you , ’ said Breeze hastily ; but as a matter of fact she felt very much perturbed . |
| 23 | Milan was one of the big cities where she felt very much at home . |
| 24 | She wished very much she had n't come to ask it . |
| 25 | She wished very much that Lady Lavinia had not practised this jest upon her . |
| 26 | In fact , most of her energy went in talk ( on an intellectual level , mind you ) so she had very little left to use on work . |
| 27 | Sometimes Lydia felt that she had very little to lose , and in her poverty lay her safety . |
| 28 | She wanted to see The White House and all the other famous places in the first city of the USA , but she had very little free time . |
| 29 | For a few moments she felt nineteen again , unsure and nervous , easily browbeaten because she had very little self-confidence . |
| 30 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |