Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 2 | Then they began catching such coastal species as the great right and grey whales from rowing and sailing boats , using simple spears and harpoons . |
| 3 | Maybe , Liz reflects ( for this is what she contemplates , through the oval mirror ) , maybe this is why they decided to have such a party , this year , at the end of this decade : as a sign that they had weathered so much , and were now entering a new phase ? |
| 4 | It is not surprising that the Science and Engineering Research Council 's review committee found evidence for a low level of activity when they chose to compare such a small part of physics with the whole of chemistry or biology . |
| 5 | You just ca n't envisage , you know , why and how they managed to afford such extravagant graves , and it 's like on two sides of a road , on one side you can only go in , and if you 're on a guided tour , erm , otherwise you 've got to , be like , somebody to do with the grave . |
| 6 | I was staggered they managed to get such a large mouthful in a relatively small mouth ! |
| 7 | He often felt hungry when they had made such magnificent love . |
| 8 | And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time . |
| 9 | The appeal committee refer especially to the personal difficulties urged by Mr. Choudhury and in the last sentence state expressly that they had balanced such personal hardships against the prejudice to efficient education mentioned in section 6(3) ( a ) . |
| 10 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 11 | They had become such friends that it seemed unnecessarily unkind of him to stay away . |
| 12 | And they had expressed such interest in the Feargach Grian she was saying ; as people of culture and learning , naturally they would be interested in it , she quite understood this . |
| 13 | This was the first time they had shared such intimacies , yet there was a familiarity about the touch of muscle and skin , the shape of flesh and bone . |
| 14 | Our correspondent smiled to herself , no doubt thinking that the railway company must be short of staff if they had to bring such an old man out of his back garden to work the system . |
| 15 | They had known such hunger that even now Olga could not bring herself to throw away a single crumb and always ate whatever was left after a meal . |
| 16 | ‘ They must know why their husbands and fathers were away so long — and why they had to face such dangers . ’ |
| 17 | Ramsay explained that his lordship 's goodbrother , the Earl of Moray , had desired to see his sister the Countess whilst in the vicinity , as was but natural ; and while there , they had learned that the defences of the castle were being strengthened , in view of possible attack by the English , and they had offered such small help as they could in this excellent work in the realm 's interest . |
| 18 | Perhaps they had thought such a warning from one soldier to another might have seemed an impertinence . |
| 19 | Whether they had taken such action with the explicit authorisation of President Gorbachev remained unclear , although it was widely agreed that he had failed to respond adequately to the loss of life that had occurred . |
| 20 | Necessity sometimes drove half-pay officers to seek a commission in an active battalion even when they had attained such an advanced age that any chance of a successful military career was long over . |
| 21 | He suspected that she had been an embarrassment to the authorities and that , in the conditions which then prevailed , what mattered was whether they wished to have such a person interned and not whether she had been subversive . |
| 22 | Obviously , if they wanted to put a lurid picture on the cover , or a picture of a cock , we would ask them why they wanted to do such a thing , ’ says Marshall . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction . |