Example sentences of "very [adv] [vb base] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We very rarely seem to enjoy it , and the pleasure of victory expresses itself mainly as relief from the self-loathing of defeat . ) |
| 2 | I 've come here to do a job I very much want to do , but I refuse to stay and … ’ |
| 3 | At the same time , many Democrats on the Hill very much want to show that a president of their party will deal with China in a different way from Mr Bush . |
| 4 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We very much want to trace the driver of that vehicle because they might hold vital information which could result in this robbery being solved , ’ added the spokesman . |
| 6 | We have learned , for example , that when you think of your University days , your department and your friends feature most frequently in your thoughts ; that you prefer the idea of reunions of your department or your contemporaries to University-wide events ; that you like the idea of the regional ‘ roadshows ’ ; and that you very much want to know where all your old friends are and what they 're up to now . |
| 7 | They want to know that you know it , and they want to feel confident that if they ask you question you can answer it , but they very much want to know what it does for them and how much it 's going to cost them basically . |
| 8 | Like everything else in the States the helpings are larger than life and you very soon learn to resist the temptation to start the meal with an appetiser . |
| 9 | And the second thing is that repossessed houses very very quickly begin to look dirty and battered . |
| 10 | The use of the tampon creates the right atmosphere for that bacteria to breed , and they very quickly start to attack the immune system of the body . |
| 11 | Experience shows that dieters very often prefer to eat alone rather than at the family table contrary to the exhortation ‘ make this for the family too ’ beloved by diet experts . |
| 12 | Believers very often cease to believe because such suffering makes them no longer able to accept the goodness of God . |
| 13 | It then comes to the practical point , Citing German experience to show that ‘ there was a tendency for employee and shareholder representatives to vote and act in distinct groups ’ , they add that the presence of co-opted directors on the board would mean that either group would at the very least need to gain the support of the majority of the directors before they could carry or veto a proposal . |
| 14 | To use the argument brought forward against the related speculation of Block ( i.e. about the tiny homunculi ) , one might at the very least want to deny that the higher and lower consciousnesses could , in any sense , be the same consciousnesses , whether or not they could be said to be in a physical part — whole relationship . |
| 15 | You 'll be a — very hard act to follow . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ They 're often full of humans who very seriously want to know what 's going on . |