Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sleeves were rolled up — which was what led me to make such an assumption — but really it was his hair that set the tone . |
| 2 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 3 | In 1860 Benjamin Disraeli thought she had such a hold on Lytton that it was affecting his attendance at the House . |
| 4 | It was this ability to encourage , to amuse and draw attention to individual potential , however slight , which enabled him to make such an impact on the teaching of art in the schools of the West Riding . |
| 5 | He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again . |
| 6 | For example in Belfast , information collected during the community studies enabled us to attempt such an explanation in terms of group pressure to adopt vernacular norms exerted upon an individual whose interpersonal ties were largely local , dense and multiplex . |
| 7 | Horbury , of Pontypool , Gwent , admitted he drank half a bottle of whisky that night . |
| 8 | How did I make such a mistake ? " |
| 9 | And I remember being called to Caernarfon once , during the time , asking me why did I have such a lot of surplus of points . |
| 10 | On the contrary , for all the general flow of tranquillity and prosperity , a number of specific themes consistently emerged which made this a time of anxiety , even torment . |
| 11 | Did you do that a lot then , back and forth ? |
| 12 | And what about the French polishers , did you call that an apprenticeship too ? |
| 13 | It was her turn to laugh ‘ Where did you learn such an expression ? ’ |
| 14 | Returning across the square she felt she was going home ; not for one moment did she confuse such a place with the Aber House Hotel . |
| 15 | ‘ How did they make such a mistake … er , choice ? ’ said the Government 's National Heritage tourism spokesman Duncan Stroud . |
| 16 | ‘ Why did they use such a lightweight to do Darlington 's heavyweight business , ’ he said . |
| 17 | And how dared he use such a method , and then have the gall to ask if it would have succeeded ? |
| 18 | Nor did it mean such a thing to any of the other administrators prominently associated with it . |
| 19 | So why did He make such a pig 's ear of the climate ? |
| 20 | Not on that day or on any other day did he attempt such a sortie with me . |
| 21 | Now how on earth did he say such a thing ? |
| 22 | ‘ Who said I had such an idea ? ’ asked Joan innocently . |
| 23 | Indeed , says Gauntlett , ‘ Had someone suggested such a thing to me in the mid- '70s , I , too , would have been horrified . |
| 24 | Why had she taken such a risk ? |
| 25 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 26 | There are many generations of qualified town planners who would have failed their examinations had they suggested such a thing . |
| 27 | Never before , not even with Renée , had he felt such a force of love in him . |
| 28 | Never before had he sent such an order , never . |
| 29 | Speaking at a press conference on March 18 , Akayev said he thought such a federation impossible . |