Example sentences of "very [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinction is arbitrary and it varies very greatly as we move across the map . |
| 2 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 3 | erm One very important house is erm what is now the Newman Mobray Bookshop , and that of course is still very much as it was in the 17th Century . |
| 4 | While I was afflicted with serious English composition and English literature , I was reading Scott , Fenimore Cooper , Henty , and the travellers , because I loved them ; I was also thinking and talking in a manner which owed little to those dignified exercises , though the day was to come when I spoke very much as I wrote … |
| 5 | Yes thank well yes er thank you very much as you say several pages back . |
| 6 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 7 | There was now a thick fog and the night was very still as they hurried through the deserted streets of the nearby town . |
| 8 | She turned quickly away from me and was very still as she fought with her emotions . |
| 9 | My boss stood very still as he looked over the side of the pen at the little animal . |
| 10 | He began to examine the neck and head of the calf , then became very still as he handled one of the little horn buds . |
| 11 | His short , stout body was very still as he stared down into Ward 's face . |
| 12 | Isabel , watching closely , saw him go very still as he saw what lay between the pages . |
| 13 | All of these types of gravel must be washed very thoroughly as they often contain lots of dust or other debris . |
| 14 | Now when the film 's over I 've got one or two more questions to ask you so I want you to watch very carefully and listen very carefully as we go through the film . |
| 15 | And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be . |
| 16 | Her hand shook only very slightly as she put the empty glass down on the table . |
| 17 | I wo n't feel ‘ complete ’ until we have at least one more baby — but I dare n't bring up the subject very often as my husband just gets more and more adamant . |
| 18 | Over the millennia , cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with environmental vicissitudes . |
| 19 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 20 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
| 21 | Lennie could n't control his own actions very well as he was always being haunted by his own strength which seemed to take over him . |
| 22 | This suited me very well as I could stay with her , only two miles down the A1 , as part of my annual leave at Chester . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , you will do very well as you are , child , ’ she replied . |
| 24 | Mr Flood the butcher had looked at them very strangely as they walked up the street . |
| 25 | I gripped my mum 's hand very tightly as we walked along the playground . |
| 26 | In the autumn of 1659 , when he was even appointed ( very briefly as it turned out ) to be a treasury commissioner , he was also elected an alderman of the City ; early the next year he was excused from this dignity owing to lack of means . |
| 27 | These claims should be investigated very closely as it may be possible for a local glazing firm to carry out a satisfactory replacement of the glass or glazing unit without replacing the window frame or door . |
| 28 | He had been thinking the matter over very seriously as he travelled from Chertsey on the train . |
| 29 | As a result , adjusted earnings are up very helpfully as you can see . |
| 30 | Sophie saw him look anxiously at an upper window as he acknowledged the introduction , then he said ‘ We have to speak very quietly as our little girl is asleep and she does n't know that Sandy is ill . ’ |