Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] with such [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He had been smiling at the screen , an expression which fell with such abruptness from his face when he looked at the doorway that Zambia was convinced SHe heard it hit the floor with a crack . |
2 | It was the pointy headstock revolution which led to the wide usage of scarf jointing , as the thinner necks which went with such guitars were prone to breaking behind the nut , where the headstock pitched back but the wood grain did n't follow it . |
3 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
4 | She played with such warmth . ’ |
5 | Mr Greenway praised the ‘ distinguished and courageous ’ Falklands campaign and added : ‘ We had better be careful before we defile the names of people who acted with such valour in the name of the United Kingdom . ’ |
6 | And when she woke she turned with such longing to where he had lain and called his name and thought she would do anything for him , anything at all he wanted , because she loved him , she loved him , she loved him . |
7 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
8 | But Mhoira , in and out of the uniform she wore with such pride , was equal to any of them . |
9 | She spoke with such hauteur and conviction that even Hoomey wondered whether she was telling lies or the truth . |
10 | She spoke with such vehemence Wilson thought it better not to risk a reply , though in her head she practised saying what nonsense she thought Mrs Browning spoke . |
11 | She spoke with such vehemence that Spittals was taken aback . |
12 | What part of my character is under fire this time ? ’ 'Do n't , ’ she said with such pain in her voice that he could almost believe it was genuine . |
13 | Clearly results must improve quickly if Darlington are to preserve the status they attained with such distinction under the leadership of former manager Brian Little . |
14 | They persisted with such vigour that he confusedly and confusingly hinted — by virtue of what he did n't say — that he and his England players might not have ben completely satisfied that Waqar and Akram were swinging the old ball through conventional means . |
15 | In other words , they dealt with such deposits as if they were equivalent to ‘ security deposits ’ . |
16 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
17 | ‘ Forgive me , my darling , ’ he requested with such charm that she was ready to lie down and die for him . |
18 | Mayne personally , together with the patrols which he led with such skill and dash , almost certainly destroyed , during some fourteen months of constant raids from desert bases deep behind enemy lines , more aircraft than any fighter ace on either side in World War II . |
19 | His business today includes course architecture and not , it seems , teaching the game he played with such flair . |
20 | He painted with such intensity that the painting fell on his head as he leant forward to see me better . |
21 | He threw with such power that Mungo half expected his darts to go through the board and stick in the wall . |
22 | His twelve years of study and the roll call of the masters of Paris of his day — masters of grammar , logic and theology , professors from England and France and further afield — bear witness to the serious nature of the academic work in which he joined with such enthusiasm . |
23 | He saw mountains on the Moon ( very anti-Aristotle this ) , then satellites orbiting Jupiter , which he mapped with such accuracy that his orbital times are hardly different from those calculated today . |
24 | This was not only because , in Walton 's words , his poems ‘ had comforted and raised many disjected and discomposed souls and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ’ ; he was honoured too for his loyalty to the middle way between the excesses of Rome and the austerities of the Puritans , which he expressed with such affection in his poem ‘ The British Church ’ : |
25 | Leibniz would have been little more than an impressionable fool in Kant 's eyes had the caterpillar that he treated with such consideration been a mere thing . |
26 | It connected with such force that it cut Mr Major 's right cheek , splattered his glasses and dribbled down his dark blue suit . |
27 | She approved the beautiful careful clothes of the " thirties that he wore with such distinction : the swinging tweed jacket , the striped shirt with its careful collar and gold safety-pin , the blue bird's-eye tie , all became him immensely . |
28 | This he did with such success that within the next few years his name became a byword throughout Spain . |
29 | How could the child he loved most have failed to inherit either his instincts or the opinions he had with such difficulty acquired ? |
30 | And what he said he said with such authority because of whom he is . |