Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] those [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well I think much as I welcome the university proceeding down the road that it is , erm I have a very , very strong feeling that change is going to come from the bottom up , and I think that it 'll come from the bottom up in those colleges , like New College , who have got an increasingly large number of women fellows who feel that , you know , there 's safety in numbers and we can start to do something about it . |
| 4 | Clearly the whereabouts of those bottles , and the number of them , had been one of the P'daytabird 's little secrets , for Warnie writes , ‘ Nothing brought home to me the finality of the old life as did the carrying out of those bottles and putting them into [ the ] car — to see the mysteries of that jealously guarded secret room emerge as plain matter of fact bottles , and the cellar stand revealed as an ordinary empty cupboard was an unpleasant feeling . ’ |
| 5 | Some of those pieces out of those U two singles I thought were brilliant ! |
| 6 | Day in and day out , today they can Same with old mowing machines , they used to go out To open a field up in those days , they used to have to go round with a scythe . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was handicapped and I 've got a handicapped son : I ca n't stand people who take the mickey out of those sort of people . |
| 9 | But erm yes sometimes you 'd , you 'd get there in time but you see they 'd just , I , there , there were n't the telephones about in those days so you , you , you could n't , everybody did n't have a phone , they could n't ring in an and say I 'm in labour . |
| 10 | I have big hands and I need to be able to grab onto something and bend the shit out of those strings . |
| 11 | And erm that 's when you er when you had your a a a new new rig out as they called it in those days , they called it a rig out , new rig out in those days . |
| 12 | Wind has the effect of moving rabbits out of those burrows that are fully exposed . |
| 13 | Da da da da da da da da on of those Donny Osmond 's or something ? |
| 14 | I 'd promise anything for a leg over in those days , he used to say , but I 've got more about me now . |
| 15 | Y y you need n't lock your door up in those days you could leave your door open , and they 'd come and knock on your door and anybody in and I , I do n't think we ever had a key to our front door , but er no they were very friendly and there used to be an old midwife , Mrs her name was the , she used to charge half a crown for a birth . |
| 16 | There were not the multitude of motorcars about in those days , as there are now , but that was one of the firms that was trying to make it , and has done it , like that . |
| 17 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |
| 18 | After all , South Africa was a long way off in those days and home leave must have been a great rarity . ’ |
| 19 | In such cases they were often allowed to take for themselves an annual salary out of those revenues . |
| 20 | Even those of us who are keen to return the residents to London can not turn the clock back to those days , but I recommend Tower House to someone who would like to see Malmesbury go more gently into the future . |
| 21 | One way out of those extremes — and all points in between — is to ensure an annual assessment of objectives , particularly at this time in the year with the Budget just past . |
| 22 | ( b ) if you take the aubergines , artichokes and courgettes out of those boxes and put them in the glove compartment , on the back shelf , wedge them between other things on the floor , there will be loads of space . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you crazy , ’ he said to Bodo later , ‘ taking that guy out in those waves ? |
| 24 | And there was no nylon around in those days . |
| 25 | Now you can quit the heat of the kitchen and swan around on those yachts of yours you got stashed around the world . ’ |