Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] [prep] such a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the same token , one wonders what leader , in some of the countries so quick to condemn Smith , would expose himself to such a cross-examination ? ) |
| 2 | Never again would she land herself in such a mess . |
| 3 | I have also tried to divide the particular provisions of the precedents into chapters , where appropriate , but I feel that the agreement does not lend itself to such a division , and I have therefore dealt with that in a chapter by itself . |
| 4 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 5 | Q. How did you establish yourselves in such a demanding market ? |
| 6 | He had never seen Englishmen get themselves into such a state before ; they looked more like untouchables . |
| 7 | Besides , Mr. Williams , who would waste themselves on such a miserable wretch ? |
| 8 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |
| 9 | If Sir John Travers , the British Ambassador to the United States , did indeed find himself in such a situation , he showed no signs of it . |