Example sentences of "[prep] that [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It 's real old fashioned cos you know the flush , when you pull a flush water comes up about that far from the top .
2 ‘ And so it came about that all over the land children were assembled in groups of 40 and made to learn the facts set out in the books written by Messrs Hall & Stevens , Warner & Martin , Durrell & Palmer , and Potter and Ridout .
3 I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of .
4 right , okay , when should we try and go for that maybe at the end of April beginning of May ?
5 I 'll give a , a further example of that later in the lecture .
6 He had not attempted to draw , Harry was aware of that even in the heat of his attack , and it enraged him past measure and gave him strength beyond normal .
7 Just a wee drop of that instead of the ice-cream
8 But it does n't work out like that most of the time
9 Well if it 's like that now in the winter you 're not out much in the summer when you 're out in the garden
10 Yeah mine 's like that too at the moment .
11 Well i , if , it would be like that all over the country !
12 Well it is like that all over the country though in n it ?
13 I came to terms with that long before the accident .
14 As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town .
15 Once any treatment has been completed , partial water changes should be carried out every three days on three consecutive occasions , before returning to fortnightly changes of about 20% , with water that must be as near as possible to that already in the aquarium , ( but hopefully that goes without saying these days ) .
16 Whitlow coming in on that near post the goalkeeper was very decisive then and er has benefited by getting the free kick Tommy Wright .
17 Erm so I think we 've got ta look at that right across the board though , we 've got ta know that in actual fact we 're covering it temporarily , erm or are n't we covering it temporarily .
18 Okay anyway , we 'll er leave it at that then for the moment .
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