Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A response was that member States would be unlikely to give organisations such far-reaching powers and to empower them to implement such an agreement , unless the intention was to create a supra-national organisation . |
| 2 | Everyone made such a fuss of him , ’ Andrew said . |
| 3 | The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt . |
| 4 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 5 | How did I make such a mistake ? " |
| 6 | That I avoided such a course of action is because of my own understanding of what the institution would allow before it swung into action . |
| 7 | I read two a day for two years and forgot them . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry I made such a spectacle of myself . ’ |
| 9 | I made such a mess of things … ’ |
| 10 | I made such a model in Bristol . |
| 11 | I made such a fuss that the Keeper had to move me back here quick . |
| 12 | ‘ I made such an idiot of myself . |
| 13 | I made half a pint of white sauce in the measuring jug I |
| 14 | I deny such an idea ; the human mind if it desires something strongly enough will achieve anything . |
| 15 | I announced such a review at a conference that I addressed the other day . |
| 16 | I mean many a time we had mm . |
| 17 | Well I mean half a bottle to do the top and the down , you can do that bit , measure if you like . |
| 18 | I mean half a crown size . |
| 19 | I mean half a side . |
| 20 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 21 | I eat half a banana . |
| 22 | I drunk half a pint of rum , half a pint of vodka and three or four cans of |
| 23 | ‘ 'E ca n't 'ave mine , I just ate it , ’ said Ella , ‘ but I got 'alf a sausage left . ’ |
| 24 | I got many a lift you know with someone that were there . |
| 25 | I got such a shock that I toppled over sideways , ending up chest deep in freezing water . |
| 26 | I got such a shock I forgot he was behind the glass and thought he was going to shove his face right into mine . |
| 27 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 28 | The second attempt was much shorter and hit off , I thought , the right balance between regretful practicality and yet sufficient affection and desire for her still to want to climb into bed if I got half a chance . |
| 29 | Toni 's voice strongly improved and the guitarist could be heard For the final encore , singing The Dreamer , Toni crouched down at the front of the stage with a candle ; personally I found this a bit dated . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , I found this a price worth paying for an interesting concept , plausibly realized and imaginatively executed with an informed sense of style ; the Largo ( Pastorale ) of the Eighth Concerto has a good rustic flavour with appropriately emphasized drone effects . |