Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you so much , ’ she said sarcastically , ‘ for allowing me to eat with such revered company , but I 'm tired now . |
| 2 | I , personally , was struck by Basil 's gift , when he taught children and teachers , for helping them to observe in such a way that detail was noticed and imagination was touched . |
| 3 | The Pareto criterion has nothing to say about such a change . |
| 4 | Philosophy has an incorrigible bias towards thinking of knowledge in terms of the verbally formulable , the proposition , the logical grounding of which has nothing to do with such psychological questions as whether the knower is being acted on causally by things which the proposition is about . |
| 5 | I have argued before , and shall again , that the farming industry has nothing to fear from such legislation so long as it is fairly enforced . |
| 6 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 7 | I do n't want to encourage anybody to take on such a formidable task , just to say that I 'm glad I followed my heart and not my head for once . |
| 8 | They say it existed as such for millions of years . |
| 9 | Not all sub-tenants found themselves incorporated into such an idealistic new system . |
| 10 | ‘ My Colonel received an invitation , did n't know what to do with such a thing , so gave it to me . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a casualty-faking — you know , making sure we would know what to do in such a situation . ’ |
| 12 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her owner would , I 'm sure let her go for such a good cause . |
| 15 | You show me someone who says they come from such a set-up and I will show you a very clever liar . |
| 16 | She had never seen him engaged in such mundane activity , and yet he did not seem to –ind her presence an embarrassment . |
| 17 | " And never let him play with such a little ball again . " |
| 18 | The hospital say they 're urgently reveiwing security , and a city MP who 's campaigned for a year to get the offender moved to a high security hospital says he warned of such an escape . |
| 19 | I do n't think she approved of such stunts , whether or not they made good television . |
| 20 | These Pakistani fast bowlers are rare talents , and it is disappointing to hear them speak in such negative terms , for it will rebound on them in the years ahead . |
| 21 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sorry if they upset you , but they were obviously wondering , as I am , how such an obviously intelligent girl allowed herself to get into such a state . ’ |
| 23 | But they have n't got it quantified to such a point where they can actually distinguish a tonsillectomy which might have a lot of procedures but actually takes about half a minute with er other things that are , you know , much much more complicated and the cost of tonsillectomies is unreasonably high compared with erm , you know , with |
| 24 | In this case it was a combination of steam power and the proximity of the River Severn that allowed it to prosper to such a comparatively late date . |
| 25 | Children who are described as mildly mentally handicapped are often upset to hear themselves described as such , and such terms as ‘ children with learning difficulties ’ are now in vogue . |
| 26 | We are the champions and people are entitled to expect us to play as such . |
| 27 | Certainly not everybody in the camp found pleasure in books or music or poetry or nature but many people who normally would never have had anything to do with such things were forced by their environment to look into them and found there greater wealth than they had ever known before . |
| 28 | ( It is not unhelpful to imagine oneself standing in such a line : how would one decide whether to be blue , white , or red ? ) |
| 29 | These are for the climbers , and when you feel puny as a walker you can sidle over to someone looking through this rail and look them straight in the eye , secure in the knowledge that nothing in hill-walking requires you to dress in such a gruesome fashion . |
| 30 | Shallowness had saved Beador — that very shallowness which had enabled him to engage in such monstrous debts when he had nothing to meet them but his partner 's money . |