Example sentences of "[be] such a [noun] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 2 | It would be such a pleasure and I would promise you that they would be no inconvenience to you . |
| 3 | I went home feeling miserable and ashamed for being such a fool but I did n't have long to indulge my self-pity , for when I entered our house I found my brother Jack and Mum quarrelling loudly . |
| 4 | Your friend there is such a person as I describe : a war criminal with more murders of children than I would care to name upon his conscience . |
| 5 | ‘ Working with Mel is such a joy that I did n't mind doing scenes ‘ blind ’ . ’ |
| 6 | She wrote to us in July , and we were delighted to hear from her , but she is such a roamer that I do n't feel confident in replying to the address she gave then . |
| 7 | It 's such a pity because I do adore him so . " |
| 8 | ‘ It was such a shock when I realised what Dora was suggesting . |
| 9 | ‘ Doing anything active in a job like that was such a strain and I 'd come home absolutely exhausted , ’ she remembers . |