Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [det] " in BNC.

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1 For eleven more days Coleridge remained at Shrewsbury , elated by his sudden freedom from ‘ all pecuniary anxieties ’ , and longing to be home in Somerset .
2 Although he lived for eleven more years , he did not stand again .
3 My dad probably got them for fifty each , if he said a hundred .
4 During 1838 another dividend yielded £30 per share .
5 During 1934 this balance began to break up .
6 Knowing Louis 's concern for the Holy Land in 1147 he had led the French army on the Second Crusade — he put it about that all he really wanted to do was put his own house in order , make proper provision for his children , and then he would be off on crusade in his lord 's company .
7 ‘ What made your grandad worry about that all of a sudden ? ’
8 That 's what he said , and he kept on saying he had only four thousand five hundred pounds or something , that 's all the money he had , he was on about that all the time .
9 if I 'd known about that that would of great !
10 Erm , there are other aspects about that that you could afford break that down , I know there was sheep , cows , for instance .
11 Now you just have to tell me about that that peedie er shop again Vera .
12 It 's probably simpler not to , not to worry about that that 's just a quick a bit of a short cut way of doing it .
13 Perhaps I should just say a word about that that operation since you 've raised it , because it is one type of job that we do , that is taking part in a rather large group , in this case sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat at the request of the government of Uganda after the fall of erm of Amin , to assess the rehabilitation needs of the country and to suggest what policies should be priority policies for their point of view and what contribution could be made by other countries through aid and erm other ways of technical assistance and fellowships for training and so forth , to help in this rehabilitation .
14 I know it 's about about that much is n't it .
15 i only there , it 's about that much .
16 Underneath the screen up in the pie in the sky I mean that I mean I 've known that when you 've only got about that much where you should have that .
17 I , not how much is in it , but it 'll probably be about that much in bottom .
18 I do n't know how much is in it , but probably be about that much in bottom .
19 I 'd opened the fridge door and our Corrinne had got about that much in bottom of bottle and she spotted it .
20 we had about that much shade Jack
21 that 's about that much wa shade did n't you around the house
22 so , I could n't of got out the way if I 'd of wanted to , cos I was about that much from the curb , I thought he 's
23 I mean Christmas ones are only a couple of foot apart , there 's only about that much between them , you know ?
24 Yeah it does , it all washes down into the garden you see cos the garden 's on a slope and the field , the field slopes straight into the garden , and when we have , when we really have lots and lots of rain , you look out your back windows and there 's about that much lying there , cos it 's running down and it ca n't get past the houses , so it just builds up and floods
25 there 's a there 's a in there out the back side and he 's about that much for the our , our top of our roof .
26 We had jacket potatoes right , which is literally mouldy and baked hard so you 'd get about out of a jacket potato you 'd probably get about that much potato and the rest is just skin and mould and hardness quiche which is just like processed cheese and processed eggs and everything you can imagine just total packet mix
27 about that much
28 I just need about that much .
29 and about that much left in the bottle so er
30 Cos what he does , he puts a tea bag in a cup pours about that much water on takes the tea bag out and tops it right up with water so he can see bottom of cup .
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