Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] such [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inhabitants of the worst-hit tower blocks fled with such haste that their washing is still hanging out . |
| 2 | Some of these early nautiloids occurred in such abundance that they are conspicuous enough to form an appreciable part of limestone formations — the ‘ Orthoceras Limestone ’ ( Ordovician ) is one of these , widely distributed through Scandinavia . |
| 3 | He painted with such intensity that the painting fell on his head as he leant forward to see me better . |
| 4 | Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job . |
| 5 | He saw mountains on the Moon ( very anti-Aristotle this ) , then satellites orbiting Jupiter , which he mapped with such accuracy that his orbital times are hardly different from those calculated today . |
| 6 | He threw with such power that Mungo half expected his darts to go through the board and stick in the wall . |
| 7 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 8 | ‘ Forgive me , my darling , ’ he requested with such charm that she was ready to lie down and die for him . |
| 9 | She had watched girl friends drift from affair to affair which always began with such certainty that ‘ this time it will be different ’ , and inevitably ended in tears with the realisation that it was n't . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , God , ’ Ruth breathed with such distress that Fernando tightened his grip around her , folding her so hard into his tense body that she clung to him hotly . |
| 11 | They persisted with such vigour that he confusedly and confusingly hinted — by virtue of what he did n't say — that he and his England players might not have ben completely satisfied that Waqar and Akram were swinging the old ball through conventional means . |
| 12 | Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth , they now survive in a few straggling colonies . |
| 13 | It connected with such force that it cut Mr Major 's right cheek , splattered his glasses and dribbled down his dark blue suit . |
| 14 | It must have been a savage attack ; Boswell had offended Johnson 's pride and held him up to ridicule ; now Johnson retaliated with such force that Boswell says , ‘ though I can bear such attacks as well as most men , I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company , that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort . ’ |
| 15 | In fact , timber felling grew to such proportions that a law was passed restricting it ; anyone found guilty of contravening this law more than three times , could be hung . |
| 16 | This he did with such success that within the next few years his name became a byword throughout Spain . |
| 17 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound and image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 18 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in. the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 19 | The village brook overflowed with such force that cars were washed away , and homes were under feet of water . |
| 20 | She spoke with such vehemence that Spittals was taken aback . |
| 21 | A theologian , Eric Mascall , in his book Christian Theology and Natural Science , wrote about such problems that the point is that , although a physicist knows the objective world only through the mediation of sensation , the essential character of the objective world is not sensibility but intelligibility . |