Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [been] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 2 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 3 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 4 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 5 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |
| 6 | She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such . |
| 7 | Mind you , it could have been cheaper if you had n't been in such a hurry . |
| 8 | If you had n't been in such a foul temper — ’ |