Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was still the post-war England of austerity and ration books — full of those coupons that young Jenkins of the Port Talbot Co-op had treated in such a cavalier manner . |
| 2 | It was about three weeks later when I happened to notice that the pupil of this eye had dilated to such an extent that it was now noticeable to everyone . |
| 3 | The technique had developed to such an extent by the New Temple Period , beginning in 1700 BC , that vases were being made out of obsidian and rock crystal : for example , the beautiful crystal rhyton from Zakro . |
| 4 | Using his Farman , which he had flown with such excellent results for the past few years , Jack instructed pupils with equally good results . |
| 5 | Vi had heard about such things . |
| 6 | Paul felt his heart stop ; he had heard of such a thing ; he should have known ; that woman — |
| 7 | She had heard of such mistakes . |
| 8 | He closed his fist on the gun ; he had heard of such weapons though never had one within his reach before . |
| 9 | As I was permanently hungry , he used to make enormous treacle puddings — it was the first time in my life I had heard of such a dish — and always made sure I got a big helping . |
| 10 | Elizabeth reported that she had heard in such a place : ‘ Long time , no see , old boy , what 's your poison ? ’ |
| 11 | At this , the sorely-tried husband had broken into such cries of frustration and wrath that the good doctor had thrust aside his plate and gone out into the hall to discover what all the hullabaloo was about . |
| 12 | She had fallen with such a thud and her shoulder ached painfully where she 'd hit the ground . |
| 13 | With a sigh of relief I dropped my hands , because instead of Dad lying there there was the attic door which had fallen in such a way that it was wedging the door back , trapping me where I was . |
| 14 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
| 15 | If it had done so , and had included among such grounds the case where the company had been formed with the purpose of defrauding creditors … the Spanish court would have been entitled to give effect to it notwithstanding the terms of the Directive ( p 32 ) . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 17 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 18 | It was no wonder the good Sisters had come to such a place to work . |
| 19 | Really they need a horse-whipping , and my father would have administered it , I assure you , if he had come across such fiends ! |
| 20 | This was the first time a Social Work Department in Scotland had come under such public fire for the same reasons . |
| 21 | One organization had responded to such a situation by issuing fixed-term contracts for a period equivalent to its minimum planned needs and then retaining the workers concerned on one week 's notice , with no obligation to negotiate their dismissal with the trade unions if their services were still required thereafter . |
| 22 | It was as if some authoritative being had decided that from that moment the names that had applied to such objects as soap , cheese , tree or book were to be exchanged for others , and all signs of delight registered by temper tantrums . |
| 23 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 24 | Devotional vids had hinted at such possibilities . |
| 25 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 26 | His job had turned into such a jest over the last few weeks that the thought of putting on his uniform , that humiliatingly naval-looking , obviously non-sea-going uniform , made him stiff with bashfulness . |
| 27 | Control Data Corp , Memorex Corp , Storage Technology Corp , and those thrusting newcomers Seagate Technology Inc and Tandon Corp , which had seen off such old-timers as Shugart Corp and Pertec Computer Corp . |
| 28 | By 1513 , the dispute had grown to such proportions that , before the Battle of Flodden , when James IV challenged the Earl of Surrey to single-handed combat to decide their two nations ' grievances , the rewards to the victor were to include the return of the town of Berwick to Scotland , and the removal of the Esk fish garth . |
| 29 | The disturbances on the borders of Brecon , whether officially encouraged or not , had grown to such proportions that the King had despatched his brother the Earl of Cornwall to the march in haste to try and suppress them , and was himself in the act of setting out from Windsor to join him there . |
| 30 | Harrison had written of such a lack among the Cyclopes . |