Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belated thanks for a delicious buffet the other night and , more particularly , for including me in such a happy occasion . |
| 2 | There are , indeed , impressive reasons for characterising it as such , but only the most committed proponent of this view would wish to deny that the defence effort and the scientific-technological base on which it rests can be entirely insulated from the problems we have surveyed here . |
| 3 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 4 | Her virtuosity with language is not in doubt ( and all credit to her translator for rendering it with such vitality ) . |
| 5 | It is worth describing it at such length so that readers who have not read Tolkien 's ‘ minor ’ works might develop some idea of Lewis 's importance as Tolkien 's ‘ onlie begetter ’ or ‘ miglior fabbro ’ , for there can be very little doubt that it was Lewis 's friendship and encouragement which led Tolkien to write the works which made his name with the public ; just as it was Tolkien 's friendship which released in Lewis wells of creativity which had remained ( though he was so naturally fluent ) mysteriously dry . |
| 6 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 7 | As he ran back to climb into his seat , she thanked God for blessing her with such a healthy and adorable son . |
| 8 | ‘ I must apologise for disturbing you at such a late hour , ’ Potter said . |
| 9 | It was wonderful to be so close to him again , to feel no barriers between them , and he wasted little time before possessing her with such quick , hot urgency that she was left behind . |
| 10 | Bush hailed the verdict as a " victory against the drug lords " but Noriega 's chief attorney Frank Rubino , promising lengthy appeals , stated that it had been a political case ; the defence had effectively been prevented from treating it as such , and the judge had instructed the jury on April 3 not to consider any political aspects of the case . |
| 11 | Here again , student counsellors in college may help in talking you through such problems . |
| 12 | Not that his pursuers would be distracted from finding him by such petty secrecy . |
| 13 | Helen will want the wedding to take place from here , but I 'll have to hold her back from making it into such a big affair that it will take months to prepare . ’ |
| 14 | She had been determined not to give anything of herself away to him , but he had succeeded in antagonising her to such a pitch that she almost could n't help herself . |
| 15 | It makes the Chancellor the Saddam Hussein of economics for accomplishing it in such a brief period . |
| 16 | He knows how to make people laugh , without whipping them into such a state of excitement that they feel a keen sense of anti-climax when the host of the show comes on . |
| 17 | Although no specific timescale was announced for the duration of the suspension of co-operation , the Mexican government suggested that it would begin an immediate review of the 1978 extradition treaty with a view to modifying it in such a way as to prohibit further abductions . |
| 18 | She felt illogically furious with Guy for putting her in such an impossible position . |
| 19 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 20 | Shared a house with other people ; was gay but so far reticent about discussing it in such a predominantly heterosexual group . |
| 21 | No doubt he was getting a great deal of macho satisfaction at finding her at such a disadvantage . |
| 22 | The society is also urging the Association of Chief Police Officers to improve records of horse thefts by marking them as such , rather than just as thefts of livestock . |
| 23 | In this poem Coleridge is clearly better able to understand his own mind by putting it in such a context , and , as in ‘ This lime tree Bower my Prison ’ such intimate understanding of his surroundings enables him to produce incredibly vivid Wordsworthian description of scene . |