Sentence examples for favourite very from inspiring English sources

I also have technology to thank for my favourite very long discovery of the year – not a novel but a podcast, entitled Hardcore History, presented by an American former radio host named Dan Carlin.

It was one of no fewer than 26 clues nominated as favourites, very encouraging to your setter as it illustrates how wide solvers' preferences can range.

And make no bones about it, they deserved it, making the tournament favourites look very ordinary indeed.

Tilly's loving friendship with the enormous white polar bear who brings back her missing toy, her parents' disbelief that he exists (despite…er… tangible evidence!), and the culmination of a magical journey to answer the call of the Great Bear Spirit makes this one of my very favourite bearish reads.

Favourite authors: Very tough!

People take their favourite pastimes very seriously.

Chances are it wouldn't stay your favourite for very long.

The novel uses a technique of voluble and virtuosic interior monologue, familiar to readers of Connolly's novels, seamlessly passing the narrative from voice to voice, from first to third person, and (a favourite and very effective technique) to one voice as remembered by another.

Even though Stevenson may not have intended leaving them, there are suggestive markers throughout the text: the suspected blackmail of Jekyll by his "young man", his "favourite"; the "very pretty manner of politeness of Sir Danvers Carew" when approached in the street - terms that may have denoted forbidden liaisons to a Victorian readership.

Like most readers of the short story, I often raid collections for particular favourites, but very rarely read a whole collection from beginning to end.

Picking 10 favourites was very difficult – and I've included a few (fictional and factual) that are not autobiographical but enter the subject of our domestic history at another angle.