Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An 11-pounder I caught came to such a bite , and four others around 9lb on the same day to similar bites . |
| 2 | The dust began to clear after half a minute . |
| 3 | I got swore at many a time , I did . |
| 4 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 5 | The Headmaster decided to charge for such a privilege , and said the money would go to the school fund , but a week later was seen showing off three new gowns with different coloured linings . |
| 6 | Do you know sweetheart I have often wondered since I knew about things whether a brother or sister ever did love with such a love as ours . |
| 7 | I had to wait at most a couple of minutes before Dennis opened the back door , walked across to the garage , unlocked it , swung the door up and stepped inside . |
| 8 | As I was permanently hungry , he used to make enormous treacle puddings — it was the first time in my life I had heard of such a dish — and always made sure I got a big helping . |
| 9 | Paul felt his heart stop ; he had heard of such a thing ; he should have known ; that woman — |
| 10 | Elizabeth reported that she had heard in such a place : ‘ Long time , no see , old boy , what 's your poison ? ’ |
| 11 | She had fallen with such a thud and her shoulder ached painfully where she 'd hit the ground . |
| 12 | With a sigh of relief I dropped my hands , because instead of Dad lying there there was the attic door which had fallen in such a way that it was wedging the door back , trapping me where I was . |
| 13 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 15 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 16 | It was no wonder the good Sisters had come to such a place to work . |
| 17 | One organization had responded to such a situation by issuing fixed-term contracts for a period equivalent to its minimum planned needs and then retaining the workers concerned on one week 's notice , with no obligation to negotiate their dismissal with the trade unions if their services were still required thereafter . |
| 18 | His job had turned into such a jest over the last few weeks that the thought of putting on his uniform , that humiliatingly naval-looking , obviously non-sea-going uniform , made him stiff with bashfulness . |
| 19 | Harrison had written of such a lack among the Cyclopes . |
| 20 | It was clear that in the preceding year share prices in global financial markets had risen in such a way as to force yields down several points below gilt yields ( see Fig. 17.7 ) . |
| 21 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 22 | She had dreamed of such a moment so often . |
| 23 | By the following year , guerrilla activity on the part of the Zealots had intensified to such a degree that Rome was obliged to take vigorous countermeasures . |
| 24 | The situation had too many of the elements of a farce about it , and he wondered briefly why he had agreed to such a scheme . |
| 25 | The European Commission of Human Rights was created to receive complaints of abuses from states and ( where the country concerned had agreed to such a procedure ) from individuals . |
| 26 | On Feb. 15 the UN mediator , Alvaro De Soto , denied that he had drawn up such a report . |
| 27 | It is surprising that London did not industrialize and that the population continued to grow at such a rate . |
| 28 | Those who had perished after such a challenge included Harry S. Truman , Gerald Ford , and Jimmy Carter , whilst in 1968 Lyndon Johnson decided against seeking re-election after a poor showing against Eugene McCarthy . |
| 29 | Telephone call took twenty minutes and had to explain how I had arrived at such a decision . |
| 30 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |