Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] those [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 2 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , do n't go on about those women — they were n't a patch on you , you know . |
| 4 | And yet , of course , she had noticed ; the darkness once again hid the colour that rose to her cheeks at the recollection of the airs she had put on during those visits to the racecourse . |
| 5 | . Thank you , bye bye ! du n no what 's going on after those files ! |
| 6 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 7 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 8 | But you see er you know you 'd got to do that so in between those times you could n't do much else could you ? |
| 9 | Now of course , what 's wrong with the theory is very office , which is a week Tuesday 's already choc-a-bloc with various meetings that I 've got , the chance of doing anything important in between those meetings is you know . |
| 10 | ‘ Not at all , ’ he murmured , and reached up a strong hand to flick it out , but not before Rachel had noticed how long his fingers were , and how black hairs grew over his wrists and down towards those fingers . |
| 11 | They froze on the spot at the sight of that hideous snapshot ; at the sight of the grotesque , massive shape in the act of bearing down upon those windows ; charging headlong in an insane frenzy towards them . |
| 12 | I looked down on those falls — ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ as the Africans used to call them , with the white plumes of spray towering above the bushes and trees ; and I thought of David Livingstone trudging , the first modern white man to find them . |
| 13 | He 's gon na go down on those nuts now . |
| 14 | We 've er , he 's just been getting all the photos stuck down on those cards . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd best be getting down to those hens of the old lady 's , ’ he said to Philip . |
| 16 | But there will be an opportunity for members to look at the present programme which will need pruning to get it down to those guidelines , and they can obviously make any comments they wish to , or any advice they wish to give the P A G in terms of individual schemes or the detail . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell you what , ’ he said , ‘ rather than sit about here , why do n't we wander down to those Crystal Rooms now ? |
| 18 | We also began to tap in to those networks previously ignored — the farmers , the parish councillors , the professional middle classes . |
| 19 | They 're quite expensive at the outset because what we 've got to do is pay the lecturers to put a lot of work in on those lectures — it 's not a simple thing writing this lecture for a thirteen year old and we also pay the school teachers for coming along and helping the lecturers . |
| 20 | Well ’ — he choked now with laughter — ‘ I would go in among those pigs and they would all start scratching a hole and there I would be standing on a clapboard looking down and nearly sick with the smell . |
| 21 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 22 | The earlier taste for Greek art had been associated with the enjoyment of otium , the life of pleasurable contemplation indulged in by those sectors of Roman society with no need to work . |
| 23 | Da da da da da da da da on of those Donny Osmond 's or something ? |
| 24 | Often images and often the sense of the beginning and the end of a poem are all you have — some journey to be gone through between those things — you know that , but you do n't know the details . |
| 25 | More specifically , did he intend to order the handing over of those categories of dissident Yugoslavs represented by the 15,000 Slovenes , Serbs and Montenegrins from Viktring ? |
| 26 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Please help the Society to become self-sufficient and able to train more teachers so that we can offer classes in more locations and take over from those teachers who are waiting to hang up their leotards and tights ’ . |
| 28 | I 'd promise anything for a leg over in those days , he used to say , but I 've got more about me now . |
| 29 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 30 | Perhaps , after all , sir , you could walk down Pennsylvania Avenue without being clapped in irons or whatever they do to you over in those parts . |