Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I avoided such a course of action is because of my own understanding of what the institution would allow before it swung into action . |
| 2 | ‘ Is there something wrong with me that I felt such a blankness ? |
| 3 | It seems ironic that I pose such a threat to the natural order : an innocuous , above-averagely exhausted woman , mainly preoccupied with children 's needs , work , letters from the bank and Sainsbury 's , but sometimes longing for a chat , a good laugh , an exchange of views . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes — no doubt she is — but what gave you the idea that I have such a plan in mind ? ’ |
| 5 | It was a shame that she looked such a mess — this was hardly the best way to meet a prospective client — but once she 'd explained her predicament … well , then everything would be all right . |
| 6 | We have always been so thankful that she has such a sense of fun . |
| 7 | I am at one with the hon. Gentleman in believing that it is important that we develop such a policy — but neither he nor I , nor anyone else , can say that any particular state of agriculture is frozen . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State repeated several times that we need such a scale of weaponry to provide what he calls a credible deterrent . |
| 9 | Now that we have such a person in post , we will wish to explore the potential for the creation of new Library databases . |
| 10 | And out of that we paid half a crown ou in every guinea to the association because they got the jobs for us . |
| 11 | Ah well we had , you had we had that , that bloke Americans , so we got half a point . |
| 12 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 13 | The problem is that they represent such a concentration of points that they are bound to attract fire , either from enemy archers or from those deadly war engines . |
| 14 | The surprising feature is the certainty with which American lawyers presume that they have such a right outside the USA . |
| 15 | As is well known , chimpanzees can be taught to communicate with sign language , though there is no evidence that they have such a language in their natural state . |
| 16 | Gobies , small fish that live in tidal rock pools , prove in a particularly convincing way that they have such a thing . |
| 17 | I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question , but if I were forced to hazard a guess , I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart . |
| 18 | The court was unanimous in holding that it had such a right . |
| 19 | On June 18 the military-led government announced that it had pre-empted a coup attempt led by the Minister of Public Works and Transport , Col. Abbas Koty . |
| 20 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 21 | It is a singularity of the book that it contains such a wealth of excellent and dramatic illustrations and deals with such titanic forces and events , but written in such a flat style . |
| 22 | Mustakimzade alone of the biographers tries to identify the medreses at which Fahreddin Acemi taught , naming two : the Darulhadis of Mehmed Sah Fenari , presumably a ( though none of the standard biographical sources mentions that he made such a benefaction nor is any such medrese or darulhadis mentioned in Baltaci 's and the Darulhadis of Murad II in Edirne . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman does not set an example to others in the consumption of champagne , as I do not believe that he seeks such a tipple |
| 24 | Kenneth Baker indicated recently that he thinks such a plan should go ahead ; if he can persuade his government colleagues that the scheme could make a real contribution to economic growth it could start up by the Spring . |
| 25 | In May New Forum demanded that people be given access to their personal files , but Peter-Michael Diestel , then Internal Affairs Minister , said on May 16 that he opposed such a move as he did not want to spread " a denunciatory atmosphere " in society again . |
| 26 | ‘ Another man-witch , who was sentenced to the galleys for life , said that he had such a pity for the horses which the postillion galloped along the road that he did something to prevent it , which was that he took vervain and said over it the Pater Noster five times and the Ave Maria five times , and then put it on the road so that the horses should cease to run . ’ |
| 27 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 28 | And I get such a fright cos I keep expecting a bird |
| 29 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister and I had such a meeting on the twentieth of December . |