Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [verb] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had never dreamed of such a thing . |
| 2 | I do n't think I had ever run in such marvellous conditions . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing ! |
| 5 | I 've never heard of such nonsense . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 7 | A tol tolerably well behaved one would say peasant association , I 've lived here for decades tilling my land , I 've never heard of such a thing before and I have managed to live alright , I advise you to give it up . |
| 8 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 9 | Then , walking away in disgust , he said , ‘ I 've never come across such a disgraceful congregation in all the years I 've given burial services . ’ |
| 10 | I have never heard of such a thing in all the worlds . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have never heard of such a potion . |
| 12 | He told inmates at Pentonville Prison , London : ‘ I have never sat on such a hard chair in my life . ’ |
| 13 | The loss he has to pay for is that which has actually followed under such circumstances upon his wrong . |
| 14 | Only occasionally did she encounter fugitives from the slaughter who had wisely dodged into such hidey holes . |
| 15 | You have only to think of such ordeals as driving tests or interviews . |
| 16 | We had never heard of such a thing ; and apparently it had only recently been catalogued , after a spate of Australian deaths on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 17 | We had never heard of such a ferry , nor has the local history department at Liverpool Central Library . |
| 18 | Because we had all come from such different backgrounds , and were individuals bound together only by circumstance , I felt it was impossible to criticise their actions as I did n't fully understand their motivations . |
| 19 | We must be the first group they 've ever had with such an attitude . |
| 20 | When I consulted the Lancashire Association of Parish & Town Councils they had never heard of such a charge being made . |
| 21 | It was a turning point in their lives and the first contact they had ever had with such youngsters . |
| 22 | Rufus had simply not known who he was , Shiva was sure of that , had not recognized him as one of the other two male members of the little community in which they had all lived in such contiguity for something like two months . |
| 23 | Teachers who enjoy their work , feel supported by colleagues and can speak frankly about their ideas and difficulties in the staffroom and in meetings may find it hard to believe ( unless they have recently worked in such a school themselves ) the stories that other teachers tell about suspicion , isolation and backbiting in the school down the road . |
| 24 | Continued from previous page Although on screen he came to public notice in The Long Good Friday in 1979 , he has also played in such diverse material as Mona Lisa ( with Liverpool 's Cathy Tyson ) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit . |
| 25 | Of course , no creative scientist holds rigidly to a fixed position in the light of new evidence , and only Kandel himself can say how far he has now moved beyond such earlier , campaigning reductionism . |
| 26 | The local man said he 'd never heard of such a thing . |
| 27 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 28 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 29 | He had never rested with such absolute confidence in the judgement of any other , excepting once for that brief while in his childhood , when he had been in the care of Master Harry . |
| 30 | No-one had ever heard of such clubbing at this par-five before and the reputation of Daly was further enhanced , substantiating an earlier assessment by Jack Nicklaus . |