Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected you to pay me for such attentions , my dear . |
| 2 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd caught a glimpse of my face in the hall mirror once , when Gav was berating me for such rakish tendencies , and I 'd been smiling . |
| 4 | I do n't feel black and I do n't think my friends regard me as such . |
| 5 | " He thinks of me as such . " |
| 6 | You ca n't seriously be suggesting that I … that I should become his mistress if he were to … to want me as such ? ’ |
| 7 | But where they 've gone on to have parish councils , you 've had the typical triangular structure and when I talk to people and listen to what they say , they , they do n't express it to me as such , but the felling you get over is that 's the sort of structure they 're used to , because the structure of the church is built in anyway , and the whole structure of the church |
| 8 | To me delicatessen means herring , 1,001 varieties of herring , but I did not always regard them as such if only because I virtually lived on them . |
| 9 | Once the royal family had been shown as human beings it was impossible to stop the media treating them as such . |
| 10 | Those words were capable of constituting a resignation and the manager interpreted them as such . |
| 11 | Poland was surrounded by neighbours who were contemptuous of its existence and anything but trustworthy , and Poland treated them as such . |
| 12 | Because we all try to twist circumstances in such a way that they conform with our subconscious picture of ourselves , those who see themselves as permanent victims will automatically seek out people who are going to treat them as such . |
| 13 | Sometimes we are given glimpses of former existences — whether we recognize them as such or not . |
| 14 | Your interviewer is a representative of the organisation and you are judging them as such . |
| 15 | In fact , the event was even more profound than that , because it was also an explosion of the four dimensions ( as well as , it is thought , a number of others , which almost immediately ‘ rolled themselves up ’ so that we do not recognize them as such — the matter and energy involved being only a secondary consideration ! |
| 16 | Thus by prioritizing intention and relegating consequences as accidents — conveniently turning a blind eye to strict liability-corporate officials can proceed to commit corporate crimes because they do not perceive them as such in the first place . |
| 17 | Indeed , in a move designed to speed up the process Lloyd has made a ‘ little publicised ’ offer to the Lawn Tennis Associations ITI set up , which would see him build centres — ITI centres — and run them as such , in addition to running them as private clubs . |
| 18 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 19 | There are also times when meaning derives from deliberate violations — or ‘ floutings ’ as Grice calls them — of the co-operative principle , always provided that the sender intends the receiver to perceive them as such , and that this is how , in fact , the receiver does perceive them . |
| 20 | then we may be sure both that the sergeant means his words to be perceived as an order , and that the private will perceive them as such . |
| 21 | It can be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities when people define them as such . |
| 22 | ( These two terms , incidentally , story and plot , are sometimes used to describe two opposed types or aspects of narrative , but unfortunately they are also used as interchangeable synonyms and I shall use them as such . ) |
| 23 | These include the effect on exports from the UK , and regional unemployment , as well as a ‘ catch-all ’ gateway ( b ) : restrictions may be permitted which would confer on the public as purchasers , consumers or users of any goods or services , other specific and substantial benefits or advantages enjoyed or likely to be enjoyed by them as such . |
| 24 | So we 're can no we can number them as such . |
| 25 | Recognise that the medical profession already sees the consequences of addictive disease in enormous quantity but frequently fails to perceive them as such . |
| 26 | Joanne began to focus on what she could see as the positive aspects of the new approach , and while she did not specifically identify them as such , they were related to the process objectives within the scheme of work . |
| 27 | But Ken had friends a-plenty , even if he did n't always recognize them as such . |
| 28 | The society is also urging the Association of Chief Police Officers to improve records of horse thefts by marking them as such , rather than just as thefts of livestock . |
| 29 | It focusses on the interaction between the criminal or deviant and those who define him/her as such . |
| 30 | Many of us from experience wish to say something like this : ‘ Lord , I do not have the ability to comprehend how you feed me through such simple gifts as this piece of bread or wafer or that sip of wine — but I know you do ! ’ |