Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] such a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought we 'd got such a good start , knowing my mother 's name and where I was born . ’ |
| 2 | But after our day out when we 'd had such a good time it seemed as though you might care and that we could have a chance . |
| 3 | And , you know , we all lost a good friend ; I 'd had such a great time over those last two days working with him and with Eric , and I think about that time quite a bit . |
| 4 | ‘ He said the surgeons asked him how he learnt to do such a good job and he said it was in the army . ’ |
| 5 | This made me lose track of his subsequent drift as I struggled to imagine how chess-playing came to have such a pejorative connotation for him . |
| 6 | ‘ And Terry and Stephen seemed to have such a good time there . |
| 7 | All three of them , I am pleased to say , declined to enter such a Dutch auction . |
| 8 | Tipping his hat to all the cultivated elegant folks , flattered to see such a distinguished gentleman taking notice of them . |
| 9 | According to Pilkington , ‘ One child he examined had such a lacerated tongue he compared it to sago pudding . ’ |
| 10 | It is not surprising that the Science and Engineering Research Council 's review committee found evidence for a low level of activity when they chose to compare such a small part of physics with the whole of chemistry or biology . |
| 11 | ‘ Dear me , I never thought to see such a peculiar thing . ’ |
| 12 | It used to be said that the Labour Party was a ‘ broad church ’ , as it managed to contain such a wide range of opinion . |
| 13 | I was staggered they managed to get such a large mouthful in a relatively small mouth ! |
| 14 | Giving the puppies a companion , or playthings , failed to have such a beneficial effect . |
| 15 | But it seems unlikely that many GLC councillors had foreseen such a public debate between different lesbian and gay ‘ communities of interest ’ , when they approved the funding for the centre . |
| 16 | He did n't see any reason to mind it , but he wondered how she had developed such a good instinct for discovering his whereabouts . |
| 17 | He laughed wryly , walking over to the window to stare at the view she had enjoyed such a short time before . |
| 18 | With the doors pushed wide open the room and the garden must blend into one , and she was filled with admiration for the skill of the architect who had designed such a harmonious setting . |
| 19 | He denied that he had committed such a horrendous action , and claimed to be the victim of circumstances . |
| 20 | In the evening the SS troops came to the homes of those who had organized such a happy day . |
| 21 | Nicholson had turned such a deep shade of purple Hugo thought he was about to suffer a stroke . |
| 22 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 23 | But he was undoubtedly the man who had made such a powerful impact on her in the Piazzale Roma . |
| 24 | She made a firm resolution to remain an active and useful member of a society to which Nye had made such a historic contribution . |
| 25 | It was Mr Murray , we understood , who had made such a roaring success of the BBC publications , ‘ The Listener ’ and ‘ Radio Times ’ . |
| 26 | How could she tell him why Matilda had made such a spiteful remark ? |
| 27 | Tall , broad and muscular , hazel eyes under dark eyebrows , strong features in a tanned face — it was the man in the village street towards whom she had felt such a strange attraction . |
| 28 | The city spread out below her looked so calm , almost as calm as she had felt such a little time before . |
| 29 | They seemed disappointed to hear that we had had such a pleasant day on the far bank . |
| 30 | That was my thing , 'cause the dashboard we had had such a cool snare sound . ’ |