Example sentences of "[prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | How about that ! |
| 32 | It was hard to top Michael Caine , and later the woman confessed she was n't even sure about that one . |
| 33 | He obviously felt really guilty about that . |
| 34 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 35 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 36 | You are quite right about that . |
| 37 | But turning over the pages of poor Hewlett 's unreadable but honest ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , one wonders about that . |
| 38 | There 's a song about that . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ Americans know so much more about that , ’ Lawless added . |
| 40 | No doubt I shall be briskly told that there is nothing new about that — and , of course , there is not . |
| 41 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 42 | The Chancellor provided no clue on whether any policy change was in prospect during his address , but when asked about joining the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS on the BBC 's Newsnight programme he said : ‘ I have no new announcement to make about that , neither today nor indeed at the Mansion House ’ — referring to his annual speech on monetary policy and City issues at a banquet there next Thursday night . |
| 43 | Then , in a quick display of candour — or humour — he added : ‘ I mean , I could argue one way or the other about that . |
| 44 | His conference speech was marked by the absence of any reference to membership of the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) , and in a BBC interview he added that he would have ‘ no announcement to make about that ’ in his key speech at the Mansion House next week . |
| 45 | ‘ I do n't want to hear about that , ’ she said . |
| 46 | But Mr Lawson later told BBC Television 's Newsnight : ‘ I have no new announcement to make about that , neither today nor indeed at the Mansion House . ’ |
| 47 | What about that ? |
| 48 | Some constables initially played up to the fact that their remarks would be appearing in print , hoping to identify themselves by saying something outrageous which was then suffixed by ‘ How about that for a quote for the book ? ’ |
| 49 | The woman and three children were now laughing and I was pleased about that , as they had looked scared stiff when I entered their house a few moments before . |
| 50 | This use of Shakespeare , the central figure of Anglo-Saxon culture , stresses that the poem is not only about the cultural change in Venice , but about that at the heart of our own language and culture also . |
| 51 | ‘ I had an awful dream about that galley of ours . |
| 52 | What intrigues me about that earlier period , especially its drama , is a mode of transgression which finds expression through the inversion and perversion of just those pre-existing categories and structures which its humanist counterpart seeks to transcend , to be liberated from ; a mode of transgression which seeks not an escape from existing structures but rather a subversive reinscription within them , and in the process their dislocation or displacement . |
| 53 | Do n't you worry about that , said Bernie , I 'll have 10 years off him . |
| 54 | Because she never had to be his lover in front of Maggie or Rachel she had no need to worry about that either . |
| 55 | Maggie feels no doubt about that : so small a word , so small and so necessary a word is bound to survive , to slip through the net of destruction that she and Fenna — no , that she herself , alone — will loose on the cold sky tonight . |
| 56 | I have grave doubts about that . |
| 57 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 58 | You 've got to deal with different problems , there 's no question about that . |
| 59 | Make no mistake about that . |
| 60 | John had claimed it was just possible to go backwards ( as it were ) , but you must talk to him about that . |