very thing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofveryandthing
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very
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈver.i/us/ˈver.i/
(used to add emphasis to a noun) exact ...
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thing
noun
uk/θɪŋ/us/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofveryandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofvery thing
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This later handbook was written with thisverythingin mind.
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He need only let us have theverythingwe think we want.
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He could not achieve theverythinghe wants to achieve with his lying promise.
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To ask how things might go for thisverythingis to ask what might happen to something that came to be what it is in this very way.
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Narratives are seen, then, both as rhetorical ploys (disguising genuine selves) and as theverythingthat guarantees our ability to have selves.
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He might do thatverythingin order to show that the client's diagnosis is not the correct one.
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The negotiations for the stabilisation agreement began to cause theverythingit was designed to prevent: currency fluctuations.
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Siegfried's public declarations of love are theverythingthat condemns his love to tragedy.
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Gerontologists may be circumspect about their claims, but the social expectation of the science of old age is that it will find ways to eliminate theverythingit studies.
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This foredoomed him to a productivity theory of interest - theverythinghe had attempted to avoid.
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Indeed, one could argue that the difficulties of late life are theverythingwhich make this phase of life ripe with opportunity for development.
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We are confident that many of our readers have observed thisverything, though without, perhaps, giving it its due weight.
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How can one morally complain about theverythingthat one persists in doing to other people in relevantly similar circumstances?
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The value of what he did is theverythingthat people's limitations limit their participation in.
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The director, like an overzealous social worker, forces the spectator to confront, once and for all, theverythingthat the castrati apparently never let their audiences forget.
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Moreover, the information-based economy is an issue connected with thatverything, information.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
That is another matter, and makes them conform to theverythingthey dislike.
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The purpose of the new clause is to do thatverything.
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Does not that come near a vested interest, theverythingwe are so frightened of?
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