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Example sentences for "being very"

  • Then with Mr. Creed and Moore to the Leg in the Palace to dinner which I gave them, and after dinner I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I went in after her and kissed her.

  • Then at night troubled to get my wife home, it being very dark, and so we were forced to have a coach.

  • Thor took up the horn, and, being very thirsty, took a steady pull at it.

  • Then, being very weary, the Franks lay down upon the grass, all dressed as they were in their armor, and with their swords girded to their sides, and slept.

  • Yet the occasion was to all appearances far from fateful, the night and the scene, alike, being very fair.

  • Moreover, being very full of the milk of human kindness, he found it infinitely more agreeable to hear the praises of the absent son, Guy, than to fall foul of the present son, Shotover.

  • And yet, being very much a woman, those words of praise came altogether sweetly to Katherine from the lips of her brother and her son.

  • After they had been separated ten years, Shier-ear, being very desirous of seeing his brother, resolved to send an ambassador to invite him to his court.

  • All voyagers carefully avoided the island where they left us, it being very dangerous to stay there, for a reason you shall presently hear; but we were forced to bear our affliction with patience.

  • All these sort of books have the same fault, which I cannot easily pardon, being very mischievous.

  • Then that evil man, being very crafty, did not deny my words, but said that he had found the body lying with my arrow in its side.

  • And Egfrid, being very brave, although he must have seen well enough what this meant, kept his face well, and answered that Jarl Ingvar was welcome, coming in peace.

  • All the while the hound kept going and coming, being very uneasy, and I rated it again.

  • The prince, being very dexterous at a mark, thought to kill her with a stone, and still followed.

  • The controversy between the old man and the young one obliged the grand vizier Giafar to carry them both before the caliph, to which the criminal judge consented, being very glad to serve the vizier.

  • All travellers carefully avoided that island where they left us, it being very dangerous to stay there, for a reason you shall hear anon; but we were forced to bear our affliction with patience.

  • I am forced to comply with her Demands while she is in her present Condition, being very willing to have more of the same Breed.

  • I took my Stand upon an Eminence in the Enemies Camp, which was appointed for the general Rendezvous of these Female Carriers, being very desirous to look into their several Ladings.

  • Now in order to diversify my Character, and to shew the World how well I can talk if I have a Mind, I have Thoughts of being very loquacious in the Club which I have now under Consideration.

  • Sir Felix had come, being very anxious to buy and sell, and not as yet having had an opportunity of realizing his golden hopes, although he had actually paid a thousand pounds in hard money into Mr Melmotte's hands.

  • She spoke of the poor of Beccles, being very careful to allude only to their material position.

  • In this part of the coast the land, being very low, is nearer than it appears to be, though it is diversified with here and there a hill.

  • They are about fourteen feet long, and, being very narrow, are fitted with an outrigger to prevent their oversetting.

  • So being very weary, they betooke them to rest.

  • And when the man, being very scrupulous to do all things in order that the thing might have its due fulfilment, went down to this river, the priest took the heifer and offered it up to the goddess.

  • This Lucumo, being very wealthy (for his father had left to him all his riches, his brother Aruns having died), took to wife a certain Tanaquil that was a noble lady in those parts.

  • But now you have heard enough of my wisdom: for I love no man, being very wise; or you have heard enough of my folly that my mirth bids me speak, as you shall deem it.

  • But Elliot said no word, being very wilful.

  • I met many that I knew, and we drank each of us two pots and so walked away, it being very pleasant to see how everybody turns up his tail, here one and there another, in a bush, and the women in their quarters the like.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being very" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being again; being anxious; being applied; being attached; being carried; being dissolved; being duly; being eaten; being exposed; being given; being heated; being justified; being late; being lost; being modified; being only; being present; being regarded; being right; being sick; being then; being true; great excitement; never remember; solid crust; three hundred and seventy