Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A response was that member States would be unlikely to give organisations such far-reaching powers and to empower them to implement such an agreement , unless the intention was to create a supra-national organisation . |
| 2 | Everyone made such a fuss of him , ’ Andrew said . |
| 3 | I met George only when I came here , and it was a pleasure for me to meet such a good and conscientious man of the people . |
| 4 | The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt . |
| 5 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 6 | How did I make such a mistake ? " |
| 7 | That I avoided such a course of action is because of my own understanding of what the institution would allow before it swung into action . |
| 8 | I read two a day for two years and forgot them . |
| 9 | I made such a model in Bristol . |
| 10 | I made such a fuss that the Keeper had to move me back here quick . |
| 11 | I made such a mess of things … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry I made such a spectacle of myself . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I made such an idiot of myself . |
| 14 | I made half a pint of white sauce in the measuring jug I |
| 15 | I deny such an idea ; the human mind if it desires something strongly enough will achieve anything . |
| 16 | I announced such a review at a conference that I addressed the other day . |
| 17 | I mean many a time we had mm . |
| 18 | Well I mean half a bottle to do the top and the down , you can do that bit , measure if you like . |
| 19 | I mean half a crown size . |
| 20 | I mean half a side . |
| 21 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 22 | I eat half a banana . |
| 23 | I upset such a |
| 24 | I drunk half a pint of rum , half a pint of vodka and three or four cans of |
| 25 | I make this a little difficult , creating an opportunity to encourage a shy child to communicate with the alien . |
| 26 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 27 | ‘ 'E ca n't 'ave mine , I just ate it , ’ said Ella , ‘ but I got 'alf a sausage left . ’ |
| 28 | I got many a lift you know with someone that were there . |
| 29 | I got such a shock that I toppled over sideways , ending up chest deep in freezing water . |
| 30 | I got such a shock I forgot he was behind the glass and thought he was going to shove his face right into mine . |