Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] that " in BNC.

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1 He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud .
2 If Clarke had intended to pursue his enquiries further , he obviously thought better of it under that formidable gaze .
3 Well I thought you gave a very clear and er convincing account of it despite that so congratulations , well done , that was excellent .
4 I 'm far too fond of it for that .
5 Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage .
6 This is Papua New Guinea , and the remote end of it at that .
7 Most of that will go on delivering the programmes er and most of that is existing funding and so we 're going to have to use a lot of it on that , but we want to do new things as well .
8 ( Not that you 'd ever catch me doing any of it with that treacherous corporate stooge again .
9 ‘ I had n't thought of it like that .
10 Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before .
11 I never really thought of it like that .
12 funny to think of it like that , do n't you think ? ’
13 I never think of it like that .
14 ‘ I had n't thought of it like that . ’
15 I had n't thought of it like that .
16 ‘ I never thought of it like that , ’ said the imp .
17 ‘ You must not think of it like that , dear , ’ Stevie told her gently .
18 An influential politician would command patronage , although one did n't like to think of it like that .
19 of it like that Anyway she said could we , I said well I ca n't come tomorrow cos Sheila 's coming over they said Wednesday , now that was , no I know how about Thursday ?
20 Mind you when you think of it like that when you when you say that you 've got no mortgage and your kids grow up they do n't need your money and that and if you 're both in good jobs it is you do tend to think to yourself well at least lot lot longer than .
21 It 's gone quick has n't it , when you think , you know , when you think of it like that .
22 Think of it like that
23 They 're not , they 're not big trees or nothing so I mean there was , it was only a , like one of these small power chain saws , one hand sort of thing , grab hold of it like that , there was nothing , no really big branches , were only cutting the tops off .
24 Bit strange when you think of it like that .
25 I mean I guess I 've got as many inner tensions as most of us , but I do n't think of it in that way .
26 Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody .
27 However I must have played with it for that tool set led to Dad 's most embarrassing moment — something which he never ever let me forget .
28 You must tackle a warren as though you intend to do a good job at it ; there 's precious little point or pleasure in dabbling with it for that way you achieve very little .
29 There was what has come to be called the inverted story , that is , a mystery which begins with the murderer being seen to commit the murder and in which the interest lies in seeing how he will not get away with it despite that apparent perfection of his method .
30 We could n't live there with it in that state . ’
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