Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cuts most crop for least work but leaves the windrow in a continuous ‘ rope ’ with heads and butts mixed . |
| 2 | Just as the capitalist desires maximum output from labour for least cost , so does the labourer want maximum pay for the least effort . |
| 3 | And she 'd got to say whoever er work for least money , got the job . |
| 4 | ‘ If you care to walk along there , ’ I suggested , deadpan , ‘ I 'll show you an interesting fact about that hole . ’ |
| 5 | Julia did n't care a sod about that kid , she 'd let her to scream on , stand in the middle of the garden screaming , indoors screaming and she said to me I have no feelings for her whatsoever but she took the bloody money every week and this is what 's so wrong , nobody knows how she er was as that child , only people like us who would hear |
| 6 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 7 | ‘ I dream about that sheep . |
| 8 | next month about that cream that I use . |
| 9 | do you know about that Karen , do you know about that ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not sure about that Angel . |
| 11 | ‘ What about that stain on the statuette ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I had an awful dream about that galley of ours . |
| 13 | Hm I 'm glad you told me about that Lorna |
| 14 | ‘ There 's only one good thing about that society , ’ says Howard , ‘ and that 's the opportunity it offers you to reject it . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Members working on behalf of a prisoner learn a lot about that country — its culture and political allegiance for example — knowledge that is no longer useful when the case is closed . |
| 17 | It 's the only thing that makes me proud about that country . |
| 18 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 19 | JIM ; No silly I 'm talking about that Council Tax you know that people living on their own are entitled to 25% off the bills . |
| 20 | ‘ You know , you really ought to do something about that razor you 've been using ! ’ |
| 21 | Yeah , and what did you get you see , you get mutations going on in plants so that you get at the moment when the plants themselves are altered , it does n't necessary , necessary mean that they 're killed off , it does n't necessary mean that they are killed off , it means that the actual genes alter , that they go on breathing so you get ginormous sort of cabbages , you know , cabbages that 'll normally be about that size , suddenly become that size |
| 22 | Whether he come from this or not , but erm we were dredging the West Bank cos er the kind of ship we got there then were the big tankers and there were n't enough room for them to swing round , so we had to dredge part of the bank out to make the swinging berth and erm there we dredged a bone up about that size |
| 23 | I was just telling him , they 've got big ones like that about that size I think in in Woolworths . |
| 24 | about that size , there 's a few less today , have you noticed ? |
| 25 | Or that there was no way left of convincing anyone that she was right about that boy . |
| 26 | What 's happening about that boy ? ’ |
| 27 | Have you read about that boy who 's his |
| 28 | I 'm sure there 'll be lots to read about that man Sydney burrows . |
| 29 | Not his clothes not his car not his moustache not the things he was wearing , three obvious things about that man . |
| 30 | Three obvious things about that man . |