Example sentences of "a thing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was very clear to me , ’ said the general in the end , ‘ that Oliver had a thing about the contras . ’ |
| 2 | He hardly knew a thing about the world and had not seen the sun for twenty-five years . |
| 3 | I 've listened very carefully to Councillor and I have n't learnt a thing about the answer to various questions which were raised at E I D and and I ask it again , why do you really reject the Scheme ? |
| 4 | Well that they showed us er a thing about the speed about about the traffic approaching lights when they 're starting flashing . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's for that little slip of a thing at the end . ’ |
| 6 | I switched to a thing on the mangrove swamps : |
| 7 | So you might find that if you do a thing on the H P you may find that what is being what 's happening is that it it it 's creating the wrong size addressings in the look up table because either it 's using you know , er signed and it 's su assuming unsigned byte or something . |
| 8 | Maybe tell you somewhere , look underneath , is there a thing on the bottom ? |
| 9 | Oh , but there was a thing on the on the radio the other day talking about little boys , and they let him out he was now got a karate class for young boys in the South of England somewhere . |
| 10 | And we looked through the side windows and there 's not a thing on the ruddy counters , it 's cleared out . |
| 11 | I know I did a thing on the phone with somebody once where erm er let's see what it was , oh I was going round to his house to cut some ends of bricks of a wall with er with a big angle grinder and I phoned up and said , hello this Leicester Brick Decapitation Services , I gather you 've got some bricks who 's heads need cutting off , and it was the wrong person |
| 12 | He 's certainly got a thing for the trappings of metal ( skull'n'crossbones fingerboard inlays — whoooo ! |
| 13 | ( What hand or eye , we may well ask , could afford to gestate such a thing for the six to nine months Shakespeare usually took to write a play ? |
| 14 | they wo n't do a thing for the children in their old blind school because R B E A have got so much money we do n't put our |
| 15 | It is not a thing for the amateur , ’ she added warningly as Jenna eyed it with glee . |
| 16 | I 'm doing a thing for the erm what is it the English language research laboratories . |
| 17 | Homework is a thing of the past . |
| 18 | Though such drastic and dangerous procedures as nicotine fumigation may be a thing of the past , today 's organic gardener can still learn much from Harry Dodson 's traditional methods of pest control . |
| 19 | At the upper end of luxury the first-class Mark 3s have much more room with one-plus-two seating , like their earlier Mark 1 and 2 counterparts but all in open saloon accommodation , since the side-corridor coach was deemed to be a thing of the past . |
| 20 | The policy to which we devoted years of labour must be regarded as a thing of the past . |
| 21 | It looks as though sweaty locker rooms will be a thing of the past as Swedish scientists have developed a smell-absorbing paint . |
| 22 | Earlier this week , Mr Ibbo Mandaza , a prominent intellectual and head of the government 's Parastatals Commission , said : ‘ The one party state is a thing of the past . |
| 23 | He argues that if other Americans were as good at their job as baseball players are at theirs , the country 's trade difficulties would be a thing of the past . |
| 24 | Thai coups may be a thing of the past , but the army is probably in a stronger position now than it ever was . |
| 25 | Silence became a thing of the past . |
| 26 | Only a miracle could save Germany , and belief in miracles was a thing of the past . |
| 27 | With some horses , animation that is not a response to anxiety or fear , becomes a thing of the past ; but with others , especially Arabians , cheerfulness and animation continue as a consistent part of their personality . |
| 28 | Nothing could have been better designed to ram home to the Scots that monarchy as they understood it was a thing of the past . |
| 29 | He was delighted that ‘ Dissenters ' Gothic ’ seemed to be a thing of the past . |
| 30 | Compulsory chores are a thing of the past , although you are expected to leave rooms tidy . |