Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus challenged the Jews of his day with a searching question : ‘ How can you have faith so long as you receive honour from one another , and care nothing for the honour that comes from him who alone is God ? ’ |
| 2 | if nothing for the fact that the message that is coming home loud and clear is this request for clarification , the advent of certainty , one way or another . |
| 3 | As the gunfire ceased , Ace and Benny ushered the Marines through the door , the group including a pair of medical orderlies who added Petion to their own collection of wounded , and followed after them through the tunnels that led upward more steeply than the others . |
| 4 | A garage would be nice and as we 've got two cars so although a garage is vital if we as long as we can get them off the road that would be an advantage |
| 5 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 6 | I could n't help smiling at that ; she still had n't quite forgiven me for the fact that her remedy had n't been effective . |
| 7 | But Huxley said nothing about the process that might have led one branch of the primate order to develop the upright posture and the enlarged brain that are the hallmarks of the human race . |
| 8 | Poor Andy knew nothing about the fact that his bride was planning to sport shorts for the most important vows of her life . |
| 9 | She , too , was unhappy about the play — to say nothing about the fact that all too few people carne to see her in her dressing room , a circumstance that was startling to her , even though she did n't react in the way that Ken himself would have done . |
| 10 | such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices . |
| 11 | If the concern is income inequality , this sort of approach is not very helpful as it tells you nothing about the numbers that have to ‘ share ’ each proportion of income . |
| 12 | If exceptions , such as ‘ I promise to tell the truth ’ , occur to us , we can treat them as the exceptions that prove the rule . |
| 13 | The procedure circulated them as the thing that 's in place . |
| 14 | Congratulate them for the things that they are good at . |
| 15 | And what 's more , we 'll have the power to charge them for the inconvenience that they cause us . |
| 16 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 17 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 18 | My senses took me through the bars that confined me . |
| 19 | And then he fucked off and left me and he did n't give me I di this , it really pisses me off the way that people like leave before you get round to taping the tapes that you liked , do you know what I mean ? |
| 20 | He said that if the design of the Foreign Office were changed , the India Office would also have to be changed and urged Palmerston and Wood to do nothing during the recess that would prejudice the adoption of the designs on display . |
| 21 | ‘ I was so suprised when I got the letter telling me about the award that I burst into tears , ’ says Joan , a widow . |
| 22 | Well tell me about the furniture that you brought |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me about the cross that was stolen , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Can you tell me about the buildings that were around the airport ? |
| 25 | I do n't want you to tell me about the messages that those channel give , okay ? |
| 26 | They have told me about the effect that price cuts can have on the dairy sector . |
| 27 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |
| 28 | WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation . |
| 29 | does n't matter if I 'm not going to name any names but I mean I 've seen some people who it 's been suggested might stand two hoots of a flick of a finger whether someone of the sort that I 've seen mentioned , stood or not . |
| 30 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |