Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were talking about budget decisions and after the microphones closed at the end of the programme they commented about that home in Blenheim Road in Kidlington , and to them it was n't healthy . |
| 2 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 3 | You should only specify A to accept the endorsement or R to reject the endorsement for the package , or leave the field blank , if you do not want to make a decision about that module at present . |
| 4 | We were talking about this when we were talking about that subject on Monday , were n't we ? |
| 5 | Americans get so ashamed about that kind of attitude . |
| 6 | And I said , well I know nothing about that kind of music but that 's the impression I got , I was just stood there at the bar thinking that last , last Friday it 's not the same one , thinking , you know , this is just this is just very samey it |
| 7 | I am not talking about that kind of quietness ; rather the loneliness of people who feel quite cut off from God , from others , from society . |
| 8 | It was not clear whether by this time children were possible for the couple ; it was not apparent that the author knew much about that kind of thing . |
| 9 | And anyway Burns had always been Very Frankly Spoken about that kind of thing . |
| 10 | for a girl to start , to start worrying about that kind of thing ! |
| 11 | I know nothing about that kind of thing … ’ |
| 12 | It was only conjecture about that bit of uterus . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's about that bit of paper you gave me . |
| 14 | You may have forsaken chips in favour of baked potatoes but what about that weakness for crisps ? |
| 15 | ‘ Hell , I have n't thought about that station in years . ’ |
| 16 | The police probably knew everything ; it was only a matter of time now before they challenged her about that sample of nail polish . |
| 17 | ANd what about THAT goal vs Sheff Wed in the title year ( 6–1 ) ! ! |
| 18 | They declared almost unanimously that it would not change their way of life , which makes one wonder what was so attractive about that way of life ( in fact , nearly all pools winners were forced to move , through the envy of neighbours ) . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman asked what we would do about that fall in employment . |
| 20 | The appropriateness of that kind of question for understanding the nature of science in a fundamental way is brought into question when it is pointed out that there is what would seem to be a fairly straightforward distinction between some state of affairs and judgements about that state of affairs made by individuals or groups . |
| 21 | The remainder of Ireland became known as the Free State of Eire , but disagreement about that partition of Ireland became an inflamed issue within the Free State , and it led to bloody civil war there , after 50,000 British troops were withdrawn , in 1922 . |
| 22 | He does n't tell us anything about that side of things but I ca n't imagine him ever finishing with someone . |
| 23 | Paul had n't thought about that side of things . |
| 24 | Now they talk about that side with nostalgia . |
| 25 | Second , we might see something right about that theory of meaning or something wrong about it , and use this to determine our attitude to foundationalism in general ; thus we might avoid the need to consider all the different varieties one by one . |
| 26 | Tugging the jeans over her thighs , she said : ‘ Why do n't you do something about that bitch at Larksoken , the one suing Neil ? |
| 27 | ‘ What about that warehouse in Tilbury that Connelly bought ? |
| 28 | Agnes lifted her eyebrows in a facial shrug ; George knew far more about that period of history than she did . |
| 29 | It 's not an exact ten minutes , it 's not an exact six hundred seconds , but what it is , is round about that period of time , after about ten minutes , what you do is you switch off and you go and do something else . |
| 30 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |