Example sentences of "very [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because after you listen to the evidence will be that these are professional officers doing a very difficult job and members of the public , members of the jury create very dated job they have the one objective I 've told you about to protect members of the public from further harm from what they thought was an armed criminal on the run . |
| 2 | Sadly the very dry weather we have had over the last two summers has meant that even young bulbs have not been able to bulk up their energy supplies and so the following year they have been unable to produce flowers . |
| 3 | In Dresden , where he and Lichnowsky stayed for a week , Mozart heard a Mass by the court composer Naumann ( ‘ very weak stuff it was ’ ) performed at court . |
| 4 | at a very low level I think it 's a very potentially demoralising thing |
| 5 | have to be a very low heat you know for microwaves |
| 6 | And though that was where I felt most private often , it was a very private place you see , even at its busiest , and it was busy , I mean it was n't small and quiet , I do n't want you to think that , it was very public . |
| 7 | For us , coming from an area where there is very little Medau we enjoy every minute . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , when one examines the actual design of a Regency Gothic house , like Pocock 's ‘ Mansion in the Castle Style ’ ( Fig. 17 ) , one can see how very little relation it has to Disraeli 's aspirations . |
| 9 | Along with age , retirement is another word that does n't belong in this Irishman 's vocabulary ; he runs a bar , Leo 's Bar , in Meenaleck on the County Donegal coast , where with very little persuasion he will put on musical performances for customers . |
| 10 | And unless he speaks in a very odd way we take it for granted that he knows what he is saying . |
| 11 | Being a very friendly fellow he once let me punch the red button that started the press . |
| 12 | The French writer Hippolyte Taine , in the not on the whole very friendly account he published of a journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century , tells , all too vividly , an unpleasant story of a fourteenth-century mayor of Bayonne who tried to extend his jurisdiction up-river as far as the tide went , so as to stop Basque smugglers from defrauding him , and who tied a number of local Basque gentry to the arches of a bridge and watched the tide come up and slowly drown them . |
| 13 | Erm in terms of if you , if you 've got a very strong presence you might adopt a different line than if you have n't . |
| 14 | She grunted so hard there seemed a very strong chance she might drop a turd right there and then . |
| 15 | Military disciplinarians believe that by imposing very strong discipline you break through barriers and train people to be highly self-disciplined . |
| 16 | Er and we came with a very strong view I thought certainly to conclusion and I did that er , that those things need strengthening and must be a in taking part of any further distraction er at Heathrow . |
| 17 | If you are working in a very technical field you should do your homework before the interview so that you are prepared for detailed questions about equipment and techniques you may have to deal with . |
| 18 | A vote was taken on whether she should be re-instated , and by a very narrow margin it was agreed that she should . |
| 19 | We are situated on the Norfolk coast of the Wash , and a very pleasant situation it would be , if only we could enjoy it . |
| 20 | Very posh theatre it was . |
| 21 | ‘ Me grandfather , aye , I can remember me grandad ’ , a Durham railwayman 's son recalled , ‘ A very old man he looked to be with long white whiskers . |
| 22 | ‘ I know this is a very unpleasant situation you find yourself in . |
| 23 | ‘ What a very bloodthirsty girl you are ! ’ |
| 24 | Think of a time when you 've been assertive it can assertive in the very very slightest form it does n't matter , assertive of some sort . |
| 25 | All in all , a very exciting day I think . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember the very exciting feeling I got when I first saw one of these magazines before I came out . |
| 27 | In very wet weather you may need to resort to a weedkiller like Weedol to kill annual weed seedlings , although chemicals are best kept for really problematic weeds . |
| 28 | For in supporting rule A five at the C E C by a very slim majority they also supported resolution one five three by an overwhelming majority , which says exactly the opposite to rule A five . |
| 29 | That 's a very popular paper you know , the News of the World . |
| 30 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |