Example sentences of "very [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Kalmu was launched on a highly successful career as a shamanistic seer and miracle-worker which enabled him to acquire both wealth and power and hence to compensate very effectively for the severe disabilities under which he laboured on account of his low caste origins . |
| 2 | Since then it had gone very badly for the small Halfling regiment . |
| 3 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you very much for the lift . ’ |
| 5 | Thank you very much for the balaclava pattern , unfortunately my machine is a Toyota 858 so this is no use as it is for a Pfaff or Passap Duomatic . |
| 6 | Jean and Martin Currie would like to thank you very much for the clothes , blankets and chocolates you have donated recently — these have been distributed through the Glasgow City Mission . |
| 7 | He was in one of his sour , silent moods and when Nick said , ‘ Hepzibah said thank you very much for the biscuits , ’ he only grunted in answer . |
| 8 | Thank you very much for the coffee . |
| 9 | Alan got a message for you all the stewards and secretaries within Pilkingtons and also the A E U , M S F and the T & G thanks very much for the initiative you 've in getting us all together and the initiative you 've took in getting us part of the European set-up company Pilkingtons , at this present time are very negative . |
| 10 | Mr Mason has asked me to thank you very much for the invitation to attend the announcement of the name of the winning architect chosen to design the new Museum on 13th August . |
| 11 | Mum said , ‘ Thank you very much for the driving bed , Mr Bennet , ’ but he shook his head . |
| 12 | ‘ Thanks very much for the lift , ’ said he . |
| 13 | Anyway , thank you very much for the , you , you probably did n't hear all the reproofs on the radio , Steve , some about my er , radio staff bottle . |
| 14 | and er , which we finished , and I would really just like to say that erm , thanks very much for the cooperation that we received from the offices generally across the authority . |
| 15 | Erm thanks very much for the directions er you gave me , it 's quite awkward coming off the main road there cos you really have |
| 16 | Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about . |
| 17 | ‘ Thanks very much for the diagnosis , Doc , ’ Rory returned wryly . |
| 18 | Thank you very much for the order . |
| 19 | You said thank you very much for the duck 's egg . |
| 20 | Okay , thanks very much for the call and raising the question |
| 21 | Thame United — thank you very much for the phone call , we 've got your fixture — and shall I mention it ? |
| 22 | Thank you very much for the work you 've put in . |
| 23 | ’ We commended Mr Canning very highly for the work that he 's done on that particular churchyard . ’ |
| 24 | Love is always doing the very best for the object of one 's love … and there is nothing mysterious about that . |
| 25 | The staff at Louth wish and his wife all the very best for the future . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ We wish Mr Hale all the very best for the future . ’ |
| 27 | The temperature could be regulated very exactly for the different needs of caldarium and tepidarium . |
| 28 | Whereas previously those who had wealth to bequeath typically provided very handsomely for the eldest son , and at a much reduced level for the rest of their children , a practice became common which implied that children had roughly equal claims on a parent 's resources , with some distinction made on grounds of gender so that women and men inherited different kinds of property . |
| 29 | I slung the letter back into the middle of the pile of correspondence and headed very quickly for the door . |
| 30 | It shares ear markings with the tiger , very probably for the same reason , to provide a signal for the cubs to follow , especially at night , when their mother leads them through dense jungle . |