Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I lived in such a jungle once , ’ said Meh'Lindi . |
| 2 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 3 | And I did use it once and I got in such a temper ! |
| 4 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 5 | I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses . |
| 6 | The smell was so all-pervasive that nothing consumed within half a mile of it could taste of anything not pertaining to dog . |
| 7 | The victim had 15 stab wounds , including one to his neck which came within half a millimetre of severing a major blood vessel . |
| 8 | Now you admit that all your fundamental objectives and ambitions which flowed from such a strategy are themselves unrealisable , certainly over the course of this parliament . |
| 9 | She asked in such a way … . |
| 10 | He was the supreme arbiter of protocol and courtly behaviour , and it was likely that he would be put out , to say the least , by the notion of a Kha-Khan who behaved with such a lack of reserve . |
| 11 | To contemporary commentators like Fyvel , the only other section of the population who behaved in such a way were the homosexuals ; what he did n't know was that this pursuit of pleasure , and concentration on self , were exactly those traits that would become desirable , and eventually , socially acceptable , with the extraordinary success of Elvis Presley and the Teen age that followed . |
| 12 | Well think , if you concentrated on that a bit more instead of just doing it any where in the air you might get on a bit quicker . |
| 13 | Liza , distraught at the news , came home on compassionate leave , which she spent in such a state of shock and distress that Harriet began to feel that the sooner she returned to her duties the better . |
| 14 | She finished on such a note of surprise that in spite of myself I laughed . |
| 15 | Most recently , the Cadbury Committee said that it was not persuaded by those who called for such a limitation . |
| 16 | Those teachers who worked in such a way were conscious that they were shifting the focus from schooling to learning . |
| 17 | She listened in such a way as to make every remark of mine appear the last word in wit . |
| 18 | You left in such a rush — ’ |
| 19 | Nothing and no one was safe , least of all Mrs Browning , and as she reflected on this a sense of futility overwhelmed her . |
| 20 | They wondered why they were asked if they could stand heights and naturally no one admitted to such a weakness so seven volunteers were picked to appear in Les Jambes de la Femme . |
| 21 | We started at such a speed . |
| 22 | That is to say they operated in such a way as either to confirm the proposed design ( by acting within the analysis phase ) or to generate the engineering information for production ( by acting within the scheming phase ) . |
| 23 | Here they behaved in such a way as to convince the ASS officers that their lives and those of others were under threat , hence the decision to fire . |
| 24 | That is the objection er the whole fundamental objection to what is proposed in the Bill as it is a centralising measure was shown quite clearly er er a a by the desire of the Home Secretary to increase his own power as when he intended to appoint the Chairman absolute impudence in my view er to suggest tha that he he should have had the power to appoint a chairman and although congratulations have now been er er poured upon him for withdrawing to wh what 's a position , I would sooner congratulate your er Your Lordships , er all of whom spoke in such a manner that it would have been impossible for the Home Secretary to have carried the measure through . |
| 25 | ‘ They reckoned it was haunted and no one would buy it , and in the end it got in such a state they got the council to pull it down . |
| 26 | Have you have you got any er idea of how i it came about that a group was so organized ? |
| 27 | In such situations its decision should only be overturned for bias when it acted in such a way prior to its decision that it could not properly have exercised its discretion , taking due account of its interest in the proceedings . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure ! ’ he replied in such a way it made Maggie giggle again . |
| 29 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 30 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |