Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if the police , or anyone else , will think there must be something wrong with them for them to have got such letters in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction . |
| 3 | They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight . |
| 4 | There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel . |
| 5 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |