Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 his batting reached its peak at Taunton against a Warwickshire team who bowled and fielded well but who could not stop him making 322 , the highest first-class innings in England for thirty-six years ; after a slightly uncomfortable start , the second and third hundreds came off sixty-seven and sixty-three balls respectively , and only tiredness after a drive from Leeds the evening before caused his downfall . |
| 2 | After a tip-off to police the baby was recovered and he was reunited with his mother at a West Midlands hospital four hours after he was taken . |
| 3 | After a couple of hours the German lady and I were so choked with emotion that we were scarcely able to speak . |
| 4 | It is hard to know exactly what the company were aiming at or were attempting to say , but after a couple of scenes the audience found itself tussling with one question only . |
| 5 | Take this turn and after a couple of miles the road narrows incredibly through the hedges and stone houses of the village . |
| 6 | After a couple of days the answer would come , abstrusely worried in non-rhyming hexameters : ‘ Fortunate is the man who honours his mother and keeps off animal fats . ’ |
| 7 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 8 | After a year in hospital the pension may be reduced still further , but if your parent is treated as having a dependant this will be taken into account . |
| 9 | After a service of thanksgiving the children were given a ‘ substantial meal of bread and beef ’ ; to observers ‘ the whole scene was one highly creditable to the philanthropy and liberality of the people of Birmingham ’ . |
| 10 | After a series of meetings the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( China , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) had finally agreed on Aug. 28 on a " framework document " for a solution to the conflict [ see p. 37654 ] . |
| 11 | With Al White and Major Carl Cross at the controls of 20207 , after a series of tests the Valkyrie joined-up with four other aircraft : a white USAF F-5A Freedom Fighter flown by GE test pilot John Fritz ; a T-38A Talon flown by USAF Captain Peter Hoag with Joe Cotton in the rear seat ; a USN F-4B Phantom II piloted by USN Commander Jerome Skyrud with E J Black in the back and a red-tailed NASA-owned F-104 Starfighter flown by Joe A Walker . |
| 12 | After a period of use the heads may well have picked up sufficient debris from the disk surface to prevent a reliable reading of the magnetic information on the disk . |
| 13 | After a number of days the conference was able to reach an agreement which was set out in a communique dated 21 July 1991 . |
| 14 | The danger of harming an interest to help an individual friend demanded the greatest caution in placing ministers in rural parishes , and after a number of mistakes the Duke of Montrose became very reluctant to present any candidate without a careful sounding of opinion together with an evaluation of the merits of the candidate himself . |
| 15 | In the summer of 1820 , after a visit to Russia the previous year to promote his recently translated New Testament , which eventually saw the light of day in 1847 , Vuk again approached Miloš , this time offering to teach the ruler to read and write . |
| 16 | On the weekend of March 16-17 after a week of strikes the public-sector trade union ÖTV reached agreement with the federal government on a 6 per cent pay increase to be backdated to Jan. 1 , 1991 . |
| 17 | After a week in Lerwick the work there and the night life began to lose its attraction and with the first lull in the weather we poked our nose out of the north end of Bressay Sound — and wished we had not . |
| 18 | On June 8 after an explosion on board the Norwegian supertanker , Mega Borg , 3,000,000 gallons of light crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico 90 km south-east of Galveston , Texas , but was largely burnt off in a fire which was not extinguished until June 15 . |
| 19 | A SPANISH fisherman died yesterday after an accident on board the 40-metre Ormaza , 70 miles south-east of Rockall . |
| 20 | In the absence of a Ministry of Justice the Home Office has acquired its responsibilities for criminal justice piecemeal over many years . |
| 21 | I know that his party would have preferred a separate Bill for Scotland , introduced by the Scottish Office , but it understands that because of a shortage of time the only way to achieve its objective is for one Bill to cover England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 22 | The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years . |
| 23 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 24 | To enable investigation of a plurality of views the modelling framework will be one which is designed to answer counterfactual or ‘ as if ’ questions rather than one which attempts to predict what the position of the economy will be in a number of years . |
| 25 | By Prince Regent , out of a mare by Run The Gantlet , he has a flat race pedigree but never ran on the level . |
| 26 | Where the Act prohibits exclusion of a head of liability the clause which seeks to exclude that liability remains valid and can be enforced in relation to other heads of liability , subject to the other provisions of the Act . |
| 27 | Under the guidance of a Head of Section the postholder will enforce all Trading Standards legislation , investigate complaints and provide advice and assistance to trade , industry and consumers as appropriate . |
| 28 | Benjamin explains the fact that film reception seems to be not only critical but also ‘ distracted ’ , the form not only a succession of ‘ shocks ’ but also a wraparound cultural environment , by means of an analogy with architecture , ‘ prototype of a work of art the reception of which is consummated by a collectivity in a state of distraction ’ ( ibid : 241 ) . |
| 29 | Walked out of a hospital in Holland the other week . |
| 30 | He maintains that , ‘ So soon after the death of a relative in hospital the next of kin are in the early stages of severe grieving , and often do not understand what is being asked of them . ’ |