Example sentences of "[vb past] at such a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While many people frowned at such a huge expansion programme , it soon became apparent that it was insufficient to guarantee the avoidance of another crisis , and official approval was immediately secured for the planting of a further 5,000 hectares by the year 1990 . |
| 2 | We started at such a speed . |
| 3 | He went at such a headlong pace that he nearly knocked down his own jackal-tigers always have a jackal of their own to clear away the bones after they have finished eating . |
| 4 | Because of the unusually large number of old folk living at Low Birk Hatt we had more than our share of funerals and everything was made worse when Daddy died at such a young age . |
| 5 | As far as I know , no one else in the Dale caught it — except my Uncle Tommy , my father 's brother who had come to run the farm for us when my father died at such a tragically early age . |
| 6 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 7 | The battles he won at such a cost to his health that he could n't help but lose the war in the end . |
| 8 | I shied at such a thinly veiled challenge , but succumbed to her persuasion , which had become more vociferous as the water diminished . |