Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 2 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 3 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 4 | ‘ I have sought you for many a long day , ’ said Caspar , cheerfully , pursuing the rather frail ploy he had thought up earlier in case of precisely this eventuality . |
| 5 | Okay I that would have been okay in that particular case but you did come back to it as benefit , you say we have n't seen you for such a long time that was a not just look at your policies but to put a , a face to the name so I can become your point of reference |
| 6 | Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’ |
| 7 | She had never seen him in such a rage . |
| 8 | But he declared that he would be unable to recognize Roksanda , after having seen her for such a short time , and that only by the light of his master 's ring . |
| 9 | Never seen her in such a state . |
| 10 | It 's , it 's a very simple organism , but basically what it 's there for is to ensure the future of T four genes , and this is what i it 's doing , and presumably natural selection has er selected it in such a way that it is an optimum design as far as , as far as doing this er is concerned , because it would be in competition with mutant T fours who did it in different ways , and presumably this is the kind of T four that seems to succeed . |
| 11 | But I 've written it in such an open-ended way |
| 12 | The ‘ Sinatra/Jagger/Jive Bunny 's Back ’ joke has seen us through many a long winter . |
| 13 | He 's got me in such a state that I 'm as useless as he says I am . " |
| 14 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 15 | Remember , the protectiveness of your subconscious is unlikely to allow you to go straight to a period or an event so traumatic that it has affected you for such a long time afterwards . |
| 16 | Board masters are guests with years of experience of Scourie fishings , and my favourite is a wonderful gentleman called Stanley Tuer ; a man of advancing years , but fleet of foot , who has exhausted me on many a long hill walk . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd never have figured you for such a lady 's man , Stevens , ’ he went on . |
| 18 | How could her obviously unrequited love have brought her to such a low , pathetic state ? |
| 19 | I 've never known him in such a huff . |
| 20 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 21 | They would have cast him in many a role in one of their plays . |
| 22 | Her problems were more to do with the self confidence which had characterised her from such an early age . |
| 23 | But we 've never followed it in such an organized way , or with such great commitment . ’ |
| 24 | Because they could n't meet c could n't meet what they were previously doing they have altered it in such a way as to make it easy to achieve . |
| 25 | I said , coldly and pompously — he had put me in such a strong , moral position by hitting me — that if he really felt I was such an awful wife , if would be better if we got a divorce . |
| 26 | An inexpressible lethargy , born of shock and mingled desire , made her want to lean her head forward against him , to have her face and mouth close to that part of him which , earlier , had taken her into such a seventh heaven of ecstasy . |
| 27 | The people who had put her in such a tizzy were a solicitor , a computer analyst and someone in advertising . |
| 28 | After studying the option , or take-note , Roe replied on the 19th July , from Liverpool , pointing out that only the moderate Royalty and the advanced price of copper ( this was around £80 per ton for metal ) could have reconciled him to such an " unprecedented manner of attaining a Mineral lease . " |
| 29 | His caresses had urged her to a wild , uninhibited passion she 'd never known she possessed — but it was the love she felt for him that had sent her into such a breathtaking completion . |
| 30 | I also feel it was a great honour being a woman and having achieved it in such a short space of time as I have only been in hairdressing for around six years . |