Example sentences of "very [adv] and [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Very successfully and we would , were gon na petition for that .
2 So if you hit the garage you 're going very very slowly and you might just give yourself a jolt but you would n't hurt yourself quite so much .
3 Once food has cooled to 5°C or colder , if any food poisoning bacteria are present most will grow only very slowly and it would take a long time for them to reach large enough numbers to cause a problem .
4 He spoke very little and we hardly knew him because he was up in front with the engine .
5 I have , so far , managed to cover for you , but your wife needs you very badly and my excuses wo n't hold up much longer . ’
6 Sadly , Marks did not last very long and he was the first of the Commanding Officers of the four founder squadrons to he lost in battle ; this was flat only great loss to the squadron , hut certainly to the Pathfinders .
7 calcium hydroxide hydrogen chloride you get calcium chloride formed and you got this thing well it 's quite likely that this does form initially , but it does n't last very long and it 's not very stable and it
8 ‘ We are talking about a minority of drivers behaving very foolishly and we have hardly made any impact on those people . ’
9 She spoke very nicely and she was a very nice person but she was a little bit er you know , It 's disgusting , she used to say .
10 She was brought up very nicely and she does n't like to see bad in anyone .
11 Mark : I was in a relationship from about 1981 to 1984 and , in a sense , I did not think AIDS affected me very greatly and it was not very high in my consciousness .
12 If there voting on then it 's traditional , point of order during the speech , thank you very much and what took me so long .
13 You 've obviously enjoyed your career very much and we 've all enjoyed you over the years , would you be pleased if your grandchildren went into acting ?
14 Thank you very much and we 'd like now to answer any questions that you may have .
15 We liked Chris very much and it was obvious that they were very happy together , and so we went ahead with plans for the wedding .
16 I love Mummy very much and she loves me and we both love you and we all go diddledy diddledy dumpling through the heather on a hot sunny day , like a bunny rabbit with the clap . ’
17 I love Saeed very much and his sister is missing him .
18 Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’
19 I go to college now I 'm doing my G C S Es and I 'm enjoying them very much and I 'm glad I went onto that course first .
20 So we accept that Thank you very much and I 'm grateful to you , I 'm sorry I 've gone but it was that general question rightly raised by
21 He took the bus , because his parents would n't always drive him to auditions , from Malibu to Santa Monica , 25 miles each way , at the age of thirteen , ‘ and the casting directors would literally take a Polaroid and say thank you very much and you got back on the bus . ’
22 He had a tremendous gift , some of it a little theatrical but we all loved him very much and he was a great popular success . ’
23 People are doing it for him because they loved him very much and he was a very funny guy as well as a kind person .
24 She told them that she and Mike were going to be married very soon and they could have a look at her wedding dress as it was nearly finished .
25 Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’
26 My garage is to be demolished very soon and I am worried that the pneumatic drill which may be used to break up the concrete base will upset or even kill my fish in a pond about 20′ away .
27 She was somewhat startled to find a waiter knocking on her door very soon and he came in bearing a tray of tea and a pain-killer , looking at her sadly and murmuring his regrets .
28 Jezrael knew that without shelter she would die very soon and there 'd be no cheating here .
29 So the management looked at the , the thing very critically and they , they designed a new stabilizer erm which did away with the whole housing , which did away with the cross er crossheads and the slides and it was so easily produced er that we were then seeking to , to sales representatives to go out and look for other work .
30 There 's a lovely erm James Thurber cartoon which shows somebody sitting in a room and there 's a lovely party going around and everybody else is talking very animatedly and somebody 's looking over their shoulder and saying contemptuously , ‘ He does n't know anything except facts . ’
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