Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | What was it about him that constantly stirred her into such a state of agitation ? |
2 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
3 | This picture , the third in Faye 's series , focused more fully on her face and the likeness of features and form was very good , but it showed her with such a yearning , wistful expression that everyone who saw it and knew her would think her life had been one long secret sorrow . |
4 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
5 | Furthermore he interpreted it in such a way that ‘ support ’ was not an empty word . |
6 | ‘ He treated me in such a way that … |
7 | I took you over many a sea , |
8 | We ran it for half a century and left behind a road network , ginger beer and a cricket green in the capital , Corfu Town . |
9 | Most of the ‘ congregation ’ [ he said it in such a way that it merited being put in inverted commas ] do not know how to behave , when to stand or kneel , how to express their grief . |