Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she got about half a dozen of the strongest boys from standard one to stand guard at the door . |
| 2 | But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton . |
| 3 | The then Prime Minister also emphasized the political awakening to the environment in statements such as : ‘ it is possible that with all these enormous changes ( population , agricultural , use of fossil fuels ) concentrated into such a short period of time , we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with the system of this planet itself ’ ( Thatcher 1988 ) . |
| 4 | After such duplicity the shadow Scottish Secretary , Tom Clarke , was ‘ wholly right to tell the SNP we could not work with them while they behaved in such a cynical way . ’ |
| 5 | Well it 's it , it 's very much like , you know , a lot of things I 've come across in everyday language where , where people , I do n't know , er friends and relatives have found out that somebody 's been gay , oh well I never thought it of him , he seemed like such a nice person as well |
| 6 | Hell , this seemed like such a good idea this morning . |
| 7 | The second problem that graphics can bring is when you have been active with that 256 greyscale scanner which seemed like such a good idea . |
| 8 | And that part of her life seemed like such a long time ago . |
| 9 | When Peckinpah left Cornwall , he seemed in such a bad way that the possibility of replacing him was discussed . |
| 10 | She felt deeply moved that such a humanitarian statement came from such a humble source in such unexpected surroundings . |
| 11 | The men also tended to have different political views as they came from such a huge and diverse country . |
| 12 | Young calves , added to such a grazing herd in July , may develop clinical disease within 2-3 weeks . |
| 13 | Recognising that a lot of women are taking to the hills , and that they may feel a little intimidated by such a male-orientated sport , especially since they all dress in the same fluffy things as us now , I have come up with a startling new innovation . |
| 14 | Because at the end of the day , at the end of the negotiations , we were left with the two choices either the our budget reduced by half a million , which is point one six per cent — right — that budget or the Labour budget . |
| 15 | While many people frowned at such a huge expansion programme , it soon became apparent that it was insufficient to guarantee the avoidance of another crisis , and official approval was immediately secured for the planting of a further 5,000 hectares by the year 1990 . |
| 16 | I hope that the London borough grants scheme , which got into such a terrible muddle last year , will do much better this year in awarding available money to London boroughs . |
| 17 | ‘ I never heard of such a dreadful thing ! |
| 18 | It is as if each writer had taken the memory of some powerful event ( the terrible shock of being woken by a piercing noise ; discovering the ‘ magical ’ properties of magnets ) and daydreamed in such a concentrated way about it that a group of people , a situation , a story began to emerge . |
| 19 | Also there had been a note of incredulity in Vigo 's voice as if he marvelled at such an old goose begetting a swan . |
| 20 | Oliver wondered why the old man lived in such an old , dirty place , when he had so many watches , but then he thought that it must cost Fagin a lot of money to look after the Dodger and the other boys . |
| 21 | His lovemaking was the best , the perfection she expected from such a gentle and caring man . |
| 22 | For example ( although the painters never worked in such an obvious and theoretical way ) , plan , section and elevation of an object could be laid or drawn over each other , and then adjusted and fused to form a single , legible and highly informative image . |
| 23 | Professor Mathias correctly sees the high demand of the war years for cereals as keeping agricultural wages up with prices , but they started from such a low level that in years of scarcity like 1795 and 1801 they could hardly have sustained life . |
| 24 | When the volume of work increased , as it did throughout central government , the wind of change hit the Lord Chancellor 's Office with particular force because it started from such a tiny base . |
| 25 | With only ten days to go , this was a disaster ( not that I 'm blaming the Council — there was probably misunderstanding on both sides ; I had no idea they worked on such a miniscule budget , and they for their part probably expected expenditure in the hundreds , rather than the thousands . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 27 | Thanks also to Lynn Inglis and her team for the many newsletters they produced to such a high standard . |
| 28 | Better-heeled passengers penned a succession of sad descriptions of the flotsam and jetsam of Europe they encountered beached on many an American station . |
| 29 | They will be worse for frail , elderly people , for physically and mentally disabled people , and I think people will also be asking the Tory and Liberal Democrat groups why they went for half a million pounds less than they need have done in service provision . |
| 30 | Reconstruction meant for many a potential realisation of hopes for better housing , education and health . |