Example sentences of "very [adv] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it came to planning , however , very little seemed to follow from these observations . |
| 2 | Delightful as it was to meet pleasant company in such an unlikely place , I very badly wanted to exchange our fell citations on the other side of this rock . |
| 3 | She very much wanted to respect W. 's wishes , but feared that some of the other adolescents in the unit were not helping W. |
| 4 | I very much wanted to continue with my studies but had to get married in accordance with my parents ' wishes . |
| 5 | Either she was left with the excellent non-skiing kindergarten , which she enjoyed but where she did not learn to ski , something she very much wanted to do , or she had to be put into skischool . |
| 6 | She very much wanted to read the letter she had received and she thought of crossing over to the Villa Nazionale . |
| 7 | Up to that time I had very limited opportunities to conduct and I very much wanted to direct a real concert . |
| 8 | As a child Vidor had hated the Military Academy at San Antonio and he very much wanted to make ‘ an honest war picture ’ that would correct the excessive jingoism of the normal Hollywood war film . |
| 9 | So powerless was I to control the evolution that , even when I very much wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway it proved all but impossible to do so . |
| 10 | I did not appreciate my new position of power , and very soon began to pity Rachel . |
| 11 | This port , founded as late as 1 130 , very quickly came to enjoy all the characteristics of a boom town . |
| 12 | And so we very nearly had to write the unusual story of the inaugural air mail flight that flew without the air mail . |