Example sentences of "[verb] that [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 3 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 4 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 5 | in fact I might not even need to vacuum the floor , need I ? , if I pick that bit of paper up off there |
| 6 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 7 | Do you think that variation in pricing strategy will be er contrary to what you 're trying to do in terms of your image projection for the brand ? |
| 8 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |
| 9 | I mean a do you think that kind of thing would work here ? |
| 10 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 11 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 12 | To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money . |
| 13 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 14 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 15 | ‘ Mother did n't make that kind of mistake . ’ |
| 16 | I can reassure my hon. Friend that nothing in the Bill will make that sort of rationalisation necessary . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe one day , if things keep going well for me , I might make that sort of money . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think we should make that sort of speculation without any evidence , ’ she snapped . |
| 19 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 20 | The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away . |
| 21 | The Business is being purchased ( partly ) for its goodwill and it is reasonable for the Vendor to be asked ( in effect ) whether there are any significant risks which would adversely affect that goodwill by virtue of the sale . |
| 22 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 23 | Ah well you eat that bit of toast , I 'll leave it there . |
| 24 | If the dark and impenetrable ‘ caverns measureless to man ’ can be penetrated , and recreated in air in the conscious mind ( ‘ I would build that dome in air ’ ) , and made into ‘ that sunny dome ! |
| 25 | I would build that dome in air , That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! |
| 26 | The Transport Act 1968 applied that exclusion to road transport services provided by the newly created STG . |
| 27 | Synod will divulge a degree of flex no , quite seriously , a degree of flexibility and we 're grateful both to Eileen and er , to John for allowing that degree of flexibility to take place . |
| 28 | Knowing that the village is close at hand , that the inn and the villagers will be awake for hours yet of summer light to welcome me , I linger , enjoying that expectancy of pleasure that is perhaps the most pleasurable part of a journey home . |
| 29 | ‘ I was enjoying that cup of tea , ’ he said mournfully . |
| 30 | It is a history which quite quickly produces that excess of difference which discredits the theory which ignored it but which also questions the theoretically facile celebration of difference per se . |