Example sentences of "very [adj] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because you 're not , because you 're inside a lot , you do n't have to go out every day , you do n't , you do n't have anything very specific to do at different times during the day . |
| 2 | Celsus senior may have been very advanced to arrive at this conception at the time he did . |
| 3 | It was a small part , he was in a hurry , the boy was very striking to look at , quite ‘ a dream Prince ’ , says Gielgud . |
| 4 | ‘ And very pleasant to meet at last the famous foreign correspondent . |
| 5 | His journal of the time notes that he found the King 's many wives very charming to look at . |
| 6 | The two rivers are very different to look at , or at least they have been whenever I have seen them . |
| 7 | It 's very exciting to win at shows . |
| 8 | And they were very , very prepared to look at different department 's needs , and to have a very wide-ranging staff discussion on what the curriculum needs were , and to buy the books accordingly , and then to move on to how they should use them . |
| 9 | It is very interesting to look at one of the more recent leaflets brought out by the government , called Helping you back to work — Information for claimants . ‘ |
| 10 | It is very easy to look at diagrams and read how it is done , but quite another matter when you have to get down to soil level with thousands to do and a foreman standing over you ! |
| 11 | It is very easy to laugh at such calculations ; even King 's pre-1692 figures were just wild guesses . |
| 12 | I know m money did go much farther in those days but there certainly was n't very much to spare at all . |
| 13 | Do you have very much to eat at lunch time , in between I mean you tend to eat erm take the take your big meal at lunch time or at night ? |
| 14 | He had called O to the side of the bed , taken hold of his hand and then quietly said to him : please take your clothes off I wish very much to look at you one last time . |
| 15 | It is very , very unfortunate to come at this time . ’ |
| 16 | The different categories of traveller are very hard to assess at all precisely . |
| 17 | It was all very well to laugh at ancient superstitions by light of day and in company . |
| 18 | ‘ I find it very helpful to look at something beautiful . |
| 19 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ The police have told us he was very reluctant to go at first . |
| 21 | They had a certain similarity , all of them , and they all lacked something , though most were very beautiful to look at . |
| 22 | All of these are still very cumbersome to use at the present stage of development but there is no doubt that they will improve . |
| 23 | It would be very difficult to arrive at the same conclusion in 1988 . |
| 24 | I think it 's very difficult to assess at the moment whether or not it 's impossible , I would n't say it 's impossible . |
| 25 | The final two Ipswich cases were somewhat exceptional : one was a woman who was very difficult to find at home ; she was also being helped by two neighbours of whose motives the development officer and others in the psychogeriatric team , were suspicious . |
| 26 | Scotland coach , Douglas Morgan , believes sevens have their place ‘ but within our calendar it 's very difficult to compete at this level ’ . |
| 27 | It could also sustain redistributive policies that might be very difficult to operate at a lower level . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is simply the case that this is very difficult to get at by methods which are feasible . |
| 29 | And of ISD explained , with her staff shop sandwiches in hand : ‘ It is very difficult to cross at most times of day . |
| 30 | W. C. Fields said that women are like elephants , very nice to look at , but he would n't want to own one . |