Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 2 | After a decent pause , she made the very English enquiry : |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll put the kettle on , ’ Claudia said ; she wanted something to do — it was silly to feel shy , but there was something between them today that made the very air vibrate . |
| 4 | It penetrated the very substructure of national culture , with the message of traditional capitalism proclaimed in an unusually explicit and aggressive form . |
| 5 | Another , more prolonged and more significant , concerned the very foundations of variable analysis , and by implication the explanatory survey , namely its empiricist inspiration . |
| 6 | Little could be done to counteract the John Osborne criticisms , for they abominated the very idea of monarchy . |
| 7 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 8 | I experienced the very opposite of what the German and French metaphysicians of our century have assured us is the truth : that all that is other is hostile to the individual . |
| 9 | Attlee attacked the very basis of the perception that the Mediterranean was crucial to Britain in time of war , arguing that with the development of air power the resources needed to protect sea routes from Gibraltar to Suez would be impossible to find . |
| 10 | His entry , ‘ The failure of the science of ufology ’ , attacked the very existence of such a subject ( New Scientist , vol 84 , p 102 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't lie ! ’ she said bitterly , deeply hurt by his endless obsession with power because it attacked the very roots of her growing feelings for him . |
| 12 | Alfonso XIII 's complicity in the dictatorship and undermining of the monarchy 's own constitution tarnished the very principle of monarchy and gave republicanism a tremendous boost , especially once Primo de Rivera 's early popularity had deserted him . |
| 13 | We entered the very horse show that we had to sit out the year before . |
| 14 | So off he went to spend a day with people or institutions that embodied the very best our country has to offer . |
| 15 | We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic . |
| 16 | I caught the very end of it , in the last bit where she cries . |
| 17 | He dismissed the very idea . |
| 18 | The church 's ideology not only gave powerful support to kingship : it sustained the very idea of the state as a permanent complex of institutions , because therein lay the best prospect of defending ecclesiastical interests . |
| 19 | And he argued that , in conditions of such widespread disunity and tribalism as Africa suffered , the press had another responsibility , one which involved the very security of the State : |
| 20 | In addition , the progressively violent and pandemonious reality suggested by television 's own reports created the very conditions in which a law-and-order rhetoric could flourish virtually unchallenged . |
| 21 | There was no mistaking her sincerity , nor the obvious distaste with which she regarded the very idea of such a union . |
| 22 | By so doing he changed the very character of the conflict , for through the creation of a wider involvement in its success he tried to ensure that he , and his successors , would have broad support for the continued involvement of England and Englishmen in France . |
| 23 | It was Althusser who , after Sartre , problematized the very concept of history and laid the basis for much subsequent theoretical investigation . |
| 24 | Indeed the changes wrought by the Prussians were to have enormous consequences for the formation of nationalist opinion in the city after the First World War , and it is important to see the extent to which these policies provided the basis of German identity and political purpose in the east , and provoked the very Polish nationalist response they supposedly sought to suppress or prevent . |
| 25 | He seemed the very distillation of the forest . |
| 26 | Her eyes , despite her years , still held their fire and , though her figure had thickened somewhat , to Katherine 's young eyes she seemed the very embodiment of the word regal . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , yes , it seemed the very thing . |
| 28 | In September 1890 Ellis 's declaration at Bala on behalf of a Welsh legislative assembly made a strong , though transient , impression : he seemed the very embodiment of ‘ Young Wales ’ . |
| 29 | Even the Trade and Industry Select Committee , which produced a lengthy report on the investigation system during 1990 , almost totally ignored the very existence of the s 447 enquiries , preferring to concentrate on the public inspections . |
| 30 | So this Spring Raffle came a very , very , close second to the most successful ever … |