Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But he 'd never think to look for me in such company . ’ |
| 2 | He 's an obedient kind of fellow , and after being kicked out of the castle by his master he sets about his task with a determination unusual for someone with such a cowardly disposition . |
| 3 | Otherwise there would n't have been a chance for someone with such a large family , almost any of whom could have taken her in . |
| 4 | Curiously , for someone with such interests , Glass himself does not seem to like theorising about music , disliking what he calls ‘ polemics ’ . |
| 5 | A sleep profile for someone on such a shift system is shown in Fig. 2.4 . |
| 6 | How did you manage to look after them on such a small wage ? |
| 7 | As it happened he was well able to look after himself in such matters . |
| 8 | ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily . |
| 9 | " He thinks of me as such . " |
| 10 | Rosa ‘ Dorothy Perkins ’ , with small , double , pink flowers has clambered over one of them to such an extent that a visitor to the garden once asked about the ‘ carnation tree ’ . |
| 11 | I had twenty village girls to teach , some of them with such a strong country accent that I could hardly communicate with them . |
| 12 | Linnet , who wore such a pretty little diamond watch pinned to her bosom , ought to be in the carriage ahead of them with such of the Dallam cousins and Amabel 's sisters ' children who had claimed the right to be bridesmaids . |
| 13 | They simply show the courtesy and respect demanded of them in such a society as theirs . |
| 14 | On the way you can tell me what 's happened to make you lather up that great horse of yours in such a fashion . ’ |
| 15 | So he called me up and asked me if I wanted to play it , which was incredibly flattering because I 'd been a fan of his for such a long time . |
| 16 | It makes one wonder about that when one hears of someone of such frailty being pursued and put in prison for failing to pay a tax that everyone recognises was nonsensical from the moment that it was introduced . |
| 17 | Karol Wojtyla was not a ‘ liberal ’ in any Western sense , though he too may briefly have thought of himself in such terms in student days . |
| 18 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 19 | She 'd be sluicing her face down with cold water , I assumed , vowing never again to drink so much that she lost control of herself in such an embarrassing , such an appallingly dangerous and potentially disastrous way . |
| 20 | Alison waved from the window of the departing taxi and Celia waved back , a sudden feeling of depression taking hold of her to such an extent that she abandoned her idea of looking for a pram and set off , rather aimlessly , in the direction of Leicester Square in the faint hope that perhaps a cinema might take her mind off things . |
| 21 | Thus it is that the extraction of the origin of the first fragment of ‘ goodness ’ and the indelibly labelling of it as such , led to the creation of an entity with a presumed existence and endowed by mankind with the power to hold inviolate the human decisions on ‘ goodness ’ — which will continue to be taken for as long as life continues . |
| 22 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 23 | Rather it is couched in absolutist terms that reify literacy as though its very essence were being described and that unjustifiably relate specific cultural manifestations of it to such universals as logic , abstraction etc . |
| 24 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |
| 25 | You do n't want people patronising you , feeling sorry for you at such moments . |
| 26 | If they 're selling those imitation trees , and if they 've got that wonderful one that looks like a real tree if they can say to me yes , we can rope it up for you in such a way that it 's got a handle on it . |
| 27 | For the rest , they can choose either to give preferential treatment to foreign firms ( by means of incentives not available to local firms ) , or to discriminate against them by such means as Brazil 's market reserve policies . |
| 28 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 29 | When Robert Devereux , second Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , suggested he should be attorney general the queen ‘ acknowledged his gifts , but said his speaking against her in such a manner as he had done should be a bar against any preferment at her hands ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ How does a large industrial country , such as the UK rebuild and expand its industrial base , and correct a worsening balance of trade in manufactured products , if investment location decisions by the multi-nationals go against it on such grounds ? , |