Example sentences of "had [verb] such [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When John Peter , no doubt in a state of some alarm that his scholarship had provoked such a response , offered to publish a retraction , Eliot 's solicitors wrote in March that their client considered it " neither necessary nor desirable " for any such retraction to appear ; their client would take the very gravest view of any " further dissemination " of the article or its contents , which he had read " with amazement and disgust " . |
| 2 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 3 | Maluje 's spirited resistance had provoked such an uproar that the muzzled Supreme Court issued a habeas corpus order to locate him — the first against the Air Force since 1973 . |
| 4 | But it seems unlikely that many GLC councillors had foreseen such a public debate between different lesbian and gay ‘ communities of interest ’ , when they approved the funding for the centre . |
| 5 | Fen , it seemed , had foreseen such an eventuality , hence his attempts to evict her . |
| 6 | He did n't see any reason to mind it , but he wondered how she had developed such a good instinct for discovering his whereabouts . |
| 7 | Corbett had heard such a sound many times during his war in Wales and , without thinking , threw himself on his face . |
| 8 | Although Romulo denied that he had given such an unequivocal pledge , Ramos stated on Sept. 15 that he would not pursue the Philippine claim to sovereignty . |
| 9 | As early as 1746 he had pondered such a work , writing in his preface to the Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia 's Day of the ‘ fine subject … that is David 's playing to King Saul when he was troubled with the evil Spirit ’ . |
| 10 | He and Francis had joined such a retinue . |
| 11 | He laughed wryly , walking over to the window to stare at the view she had enjoyed such a short time before . |
| 12 | With the doors pushed wide open the room and the garden must blend into one , and she was filled with admiration for the skill of the architect who had designed such a harmonious setting . |
| 13 | He denied that he had committed such a horrendous action , and claimed to be the victim of circumstances . |
| 14 | Also , he had committed such a very savage and ruthless attack on Charley . |
| 15 | If the venue which staged the Dickies gig which he moaned about had imposed such a bigoted , snobbish door policy then , if his account is anything to go by , the audience would have considered one of intolerant wanker and a small number of his friends . |
| 16 | If the venue which staged the Dickies gig which he moaned about had imposed such a bigoted , snobbish door policy then , if his account is anything to go by , the audience would have considered one of intolerant wanker and a small number of his friends . |
| 17 | In the evening the SS troops came to the homes of those who had organized such a happy day . |
| 18 | The SD station at Kitzingen in Lower Franconia , for example , which in its special report directly on the speech had declared that ‘ the rumours about the Führer are presumably disposed of ’ mentioned in its regular report a few days later that some workers had been heard saying that , from the speed and tone of voice , it had not been the Führer himself , but a substitute who had spoken , and Hitler himself had suffered such a shock from Stalingrad that he had to be kept under closely guarded house arrest on the Obersalzberg . |
| 19 | Nicholson had turned such a deep shade of purple Hugo thought he was about to suffer a stroke . |
| 20 | This was the first time Panama had attended such a meeting as a full participant , its President Guillermo Endara Galimany guaranteeing Panama 's future active , if " gradual " , participation in the process of Central American integration . |
| 21 | It was hard that she had to choose such an arrogant , disdainful man to fall in love with . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 24 | She could n't understand why we had done such a thing . |
| 25 | Arguing once more from the personal to the universal , he concluded that those who had done such a thing to him were the enemies of all civilised society . |
| 26 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 27 | As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London . |
| 28 | It was Mr Murray , we understood , who had made such a roaring success of the BBC publications , ‘ The Listener ’ and ‘ Radio Times ’ . |
| 29 | She laid her coat across a table then stood , not knowing what to do , wondering irritably why she had made such a fuss about coming … |
| 30 | Chinese Charlie had altered the lot to fit him , and he had pressed it , too , and it had made such a difference to Ben . |