Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun prp] [noun sg] about [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Britain has pledged more than £80 million in bilateral aid to the former Soviet Union and is contributing through the EC budget about 18 per cent . |
2 | Britain has pledged more than £80 million in bilateral aid to the former Soviet Union and is contributing through the EC budget about 18 per cent . |
3 | Jan Alexander Taylor and Patrick Thomas Hayes were arrested on Tuesday , hours after police released film of two men caught on security cameras five weeks ago walking along the street near the Knightsbridge store about 30 minutes before a small bomb exploded . |
4 | There had been a lot of activity in and around Brigade H.Q It appears that the enemy in front of the Commando positions has started to pull out , possibly due to the Allied advance in the Caen area about ten miles from here . |
5 | It is ‘ No Mans Land Fort ’ which stands completely isolated in the English Channel about three miles off shore from Portsmouth . |
6 | The Battalion entrained en route to the Lillebonne district about twenty miles from Le-Havre , A company along with B billeted at Gruchet-la-Vallasse , most men in open barns . |
7 | She recently changed erm , to come and work for me on the Warwickshire area about four weeks ago . |