Example sentences of "very much [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed . |
| 2 | Fenella , who had found Tara a place of breathtaking beauty and who would have very much liked to explore it , saw how it gleamed gently against the night and seemed to have some inner radiance of its own . |
| 3 | Lieutenant Justin Freeland , 25 , hit in the arm by shrapnel , said : ‘ I would very much liked to have returned fire but we could not pinpoint the enemy . ’ |
| 4 | Yet she would have very much liked to keep nothing back from him . |
| 5 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 6 | The dipper is a typical bird of upland rivers and one species we had very much hoped to see . |
| 7 | Even if you can actually design antibodies which will fight the disease for the patient , it 's still very much trying to hold back the disease progress . |
| 8 | In recent years , attention has increasingly focussed on the needs of these carers , who may very much want to care but who may need practical help and advice as well as emotional support . |
| 9 | She very much wanted to respect W. 's wishes , but feared that some of the other adolescents in the unit were not helping W. |
| 10 | I very much wanted to continue with my studies but had to get married in accordance with my parents ' wishes . |
| 11 | Either she was left with the excellent non-skiing kindergarten , which she enjoyed but where she did not learn to ski , something she very much wanted to do , or she had to be put into skischool . |
| 12 | She very much wanted to read the letter she had received and she thought of crossing over to the Villa Nazionale . |
| 13 | Up to that time I had very limited opportunities to conduct and I very much wanted to direct a real concert . |
| 14 | As a child Vidor had hated the Military Academy at San Antonio and he very much wanted to make ‘ an honest war picture ’ that would correct the excessive jingoism of the normal Hollywood war film . |
| 15 | So powerless was I to control the evolution that , even when I very much wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway it proved all but impossible to do so . |
| 16 | I 've come here to do a job I very much want to do , but I refuse to stay and … ’ |
| 17 | At the same time , many Democrats on the Hill very much want to show that a president of their party will deal with China in a different way from Mr Bush . |
| 18 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We very much want to trace the driver of that vehicle because they might hold vital information which could result in this robbery being solved , ’ added the spokesman . |
| 20 | We have learned , for example , that when you think of your University days , your department and your friends feature most frequently in your thoughts ; that you prefer the idea of reunions of your department or your contemporaries to University-wide events ; that you like the idea of the regional ‘ roadshows ’ ; and that you very much want to know where all your old friends are and what they 're up to now . |
| 21 | They want to know that you know it , and they want to feel confident that if they ask you question you can answer it , but they very much want to know what it does for them and how much it 's going to cost them basically . |
| 22 | Justice was rough and ready during Scotland 's Middle Ages , very much designed to protect and preserve the influence of those in power . |
| 23 | ‘ I was very much saddened to read of the death of Dr H. H. Lucas in the NG ( Autumn 1991 ) . |
| 24 | That links to a question I 'd very much like to put to you , Geoffrey , and that is the British concept of doing the decent thing — I have the impression that that is almost the uniquely British concept . |
| 25 | Yes , he would very much like to stroke her . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'd very much like to take over , but it 's the last thing I want . ’ |
| 27 | Oh , I would very much like to go away . |
| 28 | Although the Commission is a statutory body with a wide remit to promote the interests of crofters , it is so tightly bound by the rule of ‘ ultra vires ’ and treasury control , that it could not devote a minuscule sum to an experiment the results of which were endorsed by the Chief Inspector of Schools for the North and Highland Division , who wrote ‘ I should very much like to see continued the special educational merits of the scheme , challenge without competition , linkage of school and community in common effort , availability of expert advice to schools as they link theory with practice , financial assistance for bigger Projects , commitments which continue ’ . |
| 29 | I would very much like to see a copy of this book and also , if possible , some sample units from the second book : ‘ Talking about the Past ’ . |
| 30 | I said , ‘ I 'd very much like to see some of her work . ’ |