Example sentences of "[verb] very [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These observations can be explained by a modest increase of temperature with depth , the material becoming very plastic , perhaps partially molten , beyond about 800 km .
2 Since the 1916 Rising in Dublin , the organization , which had always been prone to spies and informants , had grown very security conscious .
3 Viktor Rakovsky came very dose to him .
4 The room seemed very quin as he closed the volume and selected another and made himself turn its unseen pages for ten more minutes .
5 Black Londoners for the most part sound very London .
6 I ca n't imagine any Strat-lover objecting to the sound of the SRV ; it basically sounds very Hendrix indeed — and I could n't imagine Stevie Ray making a fuss about that …
7 It 's so important to be seen at these things and — I know it sounds very philistine — to show people that you have money .
8 We lived very hand to mouth .
9 Jack flew around these , firing Very signals , to which there was no response .
10 When you round out the aircraft floats for a long way and flies very nose down .
11 SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES goes very pop .
12 If we ca n't find Simonica 's mum we must prove that we made very effort to .
13 The action on this example has been set quite low and when combined with the almost flat radius of the fingerboard and the slim neck , feels very rock'n'roll indeed .
14 So , as a rule , I would always get out of dispersal in plenty of time , I would get very testy if things were n't exactly right come the take-off time .
15 If any Matson citizen had taken an Italian holiday that year , he would have kept very quin about it .
16 Newbald did not have a railway and remained very self contained .
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