Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | She asked in such a way … . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She finished on such a note of surprise that in spite of myself I laughed . |
| 10 | She listened in such a way as to make every remark of mine appear the last word in wit . |
| 11 | You left in such a rush — ’ |
| 12 | Nothing and no one was safe , least of all Mrs Browning , and as she reflected on this a sense of futility overwhelmed her . |
| 13 | We started at such a speed . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Have you have you got any er idea of how i it came about that a group was so organized ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure ! ’ he replied in such a way it made Maggie giggle again . |
| 20 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The battles he won at such a cost to his health that he could n't help but lose the war in the end . |
| 23 | He departed in such a hurry that a flurry of dust flew up in his wake . |
| 24 | Coming as it did from such a family — not only from Lazarus ' and Lyon 's own strenuous devotions to their faith , in which names are of the greatest significance , but also from that of Solomon Klinitsky-Klein , his maternal grandfather and his very similar tradition . |
| 25 | At least , he lectured in such a way that many in the audience found him impossible to understand . |