Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected you to pay me for such attentions , my dear . |
| 2 | ‘ How could you put me through such hell … ? ’ |
| 3 | He used to warn me against such people . |
| 4 | Do you mean to tell me that the girls ask you for such stuff as you have been reading ? |
| 5 | You have to start from a pain of yours and conceive of there being something like this which hurts but which does not hurt you , and also that there could be something which is like you but not you for such pains to hurt . |
| 6 | I hope to initiate you into this important part of life … to teach you about such things . ’ |
| 7 | Here again , student counsellors in college may help in talking you through such problems . |
| 8 | Please note that individual hotels , guest houses and selfcatering establishments have the right to vary the conditions outlined here and/or impose additional conditions , provided them inform you of such conditions before they accept your booking . |
| 9 | Who , if not I , should defend you against such slanders ? |
| 10 | I suppose you except such motor cars as the Jaguar from this and Ferraris and Rolls Royce , but the majority of cars available to the public are very dull . |
| 11 | You do n't want people patronising you , feeling sorry for you at such moments . |
| 12 | And yet the truth is , we accept persons such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane to be great , though most of us can not claim to have ever scrutinized them under such conditions . |
| 13 | Somehow she felt this to be a fact , so she said , ‘ Yes — he 's trusted me with such things as letters and accounts . |
| 14 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 15 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 16 | ‘ There were the customary acclamations from the populace as I rode in procession to the Guildhall this morning — indeed it seemed to me that my subjects had never before greeted me with such enthusiasm , ’ Edward told her , gazing into the fire as if reliving the morning 's events . |
| 17 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 18 | Heavily built with a full round face that was always smiling , she greeted them with such warmth that even timid newcomers relaxed . |
| 19 | She took them with such sweetness , and grace , with such a look of affectionate gratitude and pleasure , that Gabriel felt like the Wise Man who presented frankincense to the Virgin Mary . |
| 20 | Lucifer turned on them with such ferocity that some actually fell backwards off their benches . |
| 21 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 22 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 23 | ‘ But he 'd never think to look for me in such company . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ How dare you address me in such terms ? ’ |
| 25 | Vélez was on a list of judges ( jueces sin rostro ) whose identity had been kept hidden in order to protect them from such attacks and to encourage their independence . |
| 26 | TWICE IN MY LIFE I have consciously avoided meeting someone , because I held them in such awe . |
| 27 | Writers concerned to establish a ‘ great divide ’ between the thinking processes of different social groups have classically described them in such terms as logical/pre-logical , primitive/modern and concrete/scientific . |
| 28 | They must have known if proceedings were taken for penalties it would be open to them in such proceedings to raise the question as to whether the duties were payable or not , as they did , in fact , in 1906 . |
| 29 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 30 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |