Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pattern has usually been for such people to establish themselves as privileged representatives of a ‘ god ’ who has the power to punish or destroy those who do not conform to the rules which they , the privileged , have themselves formulated , but have attributed to the ‘ god ’ . |
| 2 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
| 3 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 4 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 5 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 6 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 7 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |
| 8 | She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such . |
| 9 | Mind you , it could have been cheaper if you had n't been in such a hurry . |
| 10 | If you had n't been in such a foul temper — ’ |
| 11 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 12 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 13 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 14 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 15 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 16 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 17 | She had never been in such a place before , and she saw at once that most of the men had girls with them who were certainly not their wives , or the kind of girl one took home to mother . |
| 18 | Investors on Wall Street have rarely been in such an uncertain state — which means big money is about to be lost and won |
| 19 | If male doctors have difficulty accepting or understanding this it is probably because they have not been in such powerless positions since childhood . |
| 20 | When Joyce was a teenager Commissioner Charles Duncan came to inspect the corps , and his words in one of the public meetings stuck in her memory : " I have never been in such a well ordered home . " |