Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Paul felt his heart stop ; he had heard of such a thing ; he should have known ; that woman — |
| 3 | Elizabeth reported that she had heard in such a place : ‘ Long time , no see , old boy , what 's your poison ? ’ |
| 4 | She had fallen with such a thud and her shoulder ached painfully where she 'd hit the ground . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was no wonder the good Sisters had come to such a place to work . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Harrison had written of such a lack among the Cyclopes . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had dreamed of such a moment so often . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On Feb. 15 the UN mediator , Alvaro De Soto , denied that he had drawn up such a report . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Telephone call took twenty minutes and had to explain how I had arrived at such a decision . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 24 | Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again . |
| 25 | But having travelled thousands of miles in the last three weeks , he experienced a rougher ride on his own doorstep than he had encountered in many a photo opportunity en route . |
| 26 | Since that time the second patient 's lesion had progressed in such a way that gastrectomy had to be performed in January 1991 and fundic argyrophil cell tumours were discovered in three other patients and were progressing in two of them . |
| 27 | It was a fortnight now since it had started with such a hullabaloo , but there had been no raids , and no bombs had been dropped ; the sirens went and people made for the shelters , but more and more half-heartedly , as days passed and nothing exciting happened . |
| 28 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 29 | Leith could n't help feeling extremely sorry for her , especially when she discovered that Rosemary , brought up believing that marriages were forever , could not accept that her marriage was over — even though it had ended up such a disaster and Derek was now asking for a divorce . |
| 30 | Bargaining had evolved in such a way that very few of the Conservative reforms had been used by employers in day-to-day negotiations , he said . |