Example sentences of "[vb infin] very " in BNC.
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| 31 | I believe that this , the first edition of Guide to Exporting will assist very considerably in respect of the latter in particular to conduct their business in a more effecient and profitable manner . |
| 32 | ‘ We will focus very strongly on the important and valuable conservation work which is carried out here . |
| 33 | As films for private cameras were in very short supply — what was n't ? — I went along to him to be recorded for posterity , although being gloomily aware that I did n't photograph very well . |
| 34 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |
| 35 | The Copts would object very strongly if Owen were to invade the church ; but if Mahmoud did it they would riot . |
| 36 | I I the way I s I think I think was it Josephine he was married to , then then she would er she would object very strongly if he had a bath before they went to bed together . |
| 37 | The history of every European dynasty is full of rivalries and antagonisms ; such things could flourish very well without ideas of enlightened government to give impetus to them . |
| 38 | This time , the puppets will attack very swiftly . |
| 39 | It has been shown that if small bubbles of gas in a liquid were compressed suddenly , they would undergo very great temperature changes of the order of several thousand degrees centigrade . |
| 40 | Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time . |
| 41 | When Diana became patron of the Welsh National Opera , one of the original five patronages she took on when she became Princess of Wales , she confessed that she did not know very much about opera — and that her principal love was ballet . |
| 42 | If Rank seriously thought that his directors could work to order and effectively fill the gap in the release schedules , notwithstanding the audience 's proven affection for US pictures , then he really did know very little about film production . |
| 43 | A female employee of one of the companies included in the report said , ‘ I do n't know very many women who 've got high up … |
| 44 | Alan , whom I did n't know very well , had invited Ann and me over for the day , and had also offered to act as our gillie . |
| 45 | This shows , does n't it , that Aunt Nellie did n't know very much about ‘ t' Brownie gals , ’ because doing good turns in the home is just what they are specially clever at ! |
| 46 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 47 | ‘ The trouble is , ye do n't know very much , ’ Parker said . |
| 48 | But we 'll let you know very soon . ’ |
| 49 | His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well . |
| 50 | I did n't know very much about barn owls at the time , so I busied myself reading everything I could find on them , in the library and magazines . |
| 51 | I gather she either does n't know very much about Uncle Adam or does n't care very much about what she does know . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ THE American people do n't know very much about the Balkans . |
| 53 | It has something to do with the extent of a pupil 's knowledge ; for example , anyone giving 50 feet as the height of a door can not know very much about the size of a foot . |
| 54 | People are quite good at covering things up ; they say , I do n't know very much about literary theory , you talk to so and so down the corridor ; or Well , I do n't know African writing , but So-and-So does , and then people offer options on them , that to some extent is what we do here , within a framework of a fairly traditional English structure … people manage by excluding what they do n't want to deal with , really . |
| 55 | She went into the corridor , hurrying as though she did not know very well that she was simply being transferred to another waiting chair , that the urgency of their voices bore no relation to the speed of their , or anyway her , movements . |
| 56 | Rather , people fear and stigmatise fairly specific things , people and conditions , even though they may admittedly know very little about them . |
| 57 | Q : I bought my PC a month ago , so I do n't know very much about it yet . |
| 58 | Part of the problem is that most of us do n't know very much about mental illness and we tend to see very negative images around us and on television . |
| 59 | And tell me about the lady who did abortions , erm , did you know very much about what sort of people they were ? |
| 60 | She did not know very much about the Dark Ireland ; she thought no one knew very much . |