Example sentences of "very [adv] when [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roland went to Bloomsbury on his bicycle next morning , setting off very early when Val was still applying her workaday face . |
| 2 | Very often when individuals are under stress the very activities that they should endeavour to keep in their weekly timetable get squeezed out or avoided . |
| 3 | Very often when people are under stress these very important relaxing activities get squeezed out of the weekly timetable . |
| 4 | Maybe erm maybe our culture has particular metaphors , particular ways of understanding ways of human distress and it seems that very often when people have a rather non-specific distress these days , I mean it 's very common to find that erm counsellors , professionals , will be looking in into people 's backgrounds , looking into people 's backgrounds for evidence of child sex abuse . |
| 5 | But the variable of interest may of course genuinely swing around abruptly ; the monthly count of unemployed people rises very sharply when school-leavers come on to the register , for example . |
| 6 | It hit him very hard when Rosie left home — and then when Sean got killed in the war … . |