Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a month [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other MPs who came close to defeat were the Militant supporter Mr Pat Wall ( Bradford North ) , and Mr Ron Brown ( Leith ) , the left-winger who had the whip withdrawn for a month for dropping the Mace . |
| 2 | She would have to work for a month for that . |
| 3 | Fidelma was as unlikely a lady 's maid as one could hope to find in a month of Sundays . |
| 4 | Both illusions were shattered in ways that underlined how fragile and ramshackle the policies were , and they were shattered within a month of each other . |
| 5 | But defender Andy Barlow will be sidelined for a month after straining a calf muscle in training . |
| 6 | The first noteworthy example came about a month after this August attack . |
| 7 | The recording was made within a month of the première , which was conducted by ‘ Glorious John ’ , as Vaughan Williams called Barbirolli . |
| 8 | Hawke immediately denied the allegation to the federal parliament , claiming that he had given no such promise and that a decision about the tax was not made until a month after the lunch . |
| 9 | Ershad 's trial had been scheduled to open on Feb. 16 , but was postponed for a month on a technicality . |
| 10 | The pair will spend about a month at the Thames Coastguard station and take a further training course at Highcliffe , in Dorset , before taking up their duties at Walton on the Naze . |
| 11 | At a cost of $6 million ( £3.3 million ) Japanese architect Arata Isozaki is completing the conversion which retains original details such as the building 's cast-iron columns but introduces exciting new features including a pair of grand steel staircases leading to the first floor , a sharply angled flight of stairs linking to a cafeteria in the basement ( this feature will be completed only after the museum closes for a month at the end of August ) , and panels of etched glass which create a soft filter for natural light . |
| 12 | The heckling to which he was subjected at the Vietnam war memorial on May 31st was disturbing evidence of his failure , so far , to establish that universal respect in the country which most presidents acquire within a month of taking office . |
| 13 | But by now , the whole Lockerbie investigation was dogged by a sense of futility felt nowhere more keenly than at the Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry which , just before Christmas 1990 , recessed for a month after hearing 150 witnesses in 46 days . |
| 14 | CHEERING crowds greeted Jack Lammiman and his crew when they sailed home to Whitby , North Yorks , after following Columbus 's route to America — where they were rescued after drifting for a month with engine failure . |
| 15 | Disagreeing with him over the patients ' preparatory period before inoculation , which he proposed to reduce from a month to eight or ten days , and recommending an open-air regime instead of confinement indoors following inoculation , Sutton left to set up his own practice at Ingatestone , Essex , in October 1763 . |
| 16 | ‘ We have trained for a month since the end of our home season , ’ explained Mark Catchpole , son of Aussie legend Ken . |
| 17 | Then they go for a month to a , Sue 's going on a computing course for a day on the tenth of June , the date Clare goes to Brompton , Isle of Wight , so I 'll have to bring them home . |
| 18 | The Leeds manager , I understand , was only too happy to let him go after a month of turmoil at Elland Road which culminated in a walk-out last weekend by the flamboyant Frenchman when left out of the Arsenal game . |
| 19 | Dorabella 's playfulness is similar to that of Natalia 's ward , Vera , when she first dances in A Month in the Country , . |
| 20 | A brother and sister , for instance , died within a month of each other in 1861 — one of them 16 , the other 18 . |
| 21 | This was known as the Winter Term and was followed by a month of welcome holiday . |
| 22 | People in Upton on Severn have been campaigning for a month against plans to open a treatment centre for twenty six child abusers in a country house near their village . |
| 23 | And a further blow for the struggling Merseysiders is that key midfielder Michael Thomas wo n't play for a month after aggravating an ankle injury . |
| 24 | My first machine cost £22 , which was just slightly less than I earned in a month at the office . |
| 25 | It then spends about a month in cellars or dark warehouses to ‘ ripen ’ to its maximum softness and elasticity , before being cut into strips just wider than the diameter of a cork . |
| 26 | FIFTEEN steps to be implemented within a month of taking office in order to reverse the Conservative health reforms and set a new direction for the NHS were outlined by Labour yesterday . |
| 27 | To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures . |
| 28 | The term of the interim government headed by Ratu Mara was extended by a month to Jan. 5 , 1990 , because of preparations for Ratu Cakobau 's funeral . |
| 29 | These attacks , plus an incident in which two men , a Briton and a Zimbabwean , were kidnapped and held for a month by the MNR in February-March , led to renewed doubts about the security of the Beira corridor between Zimbabwe and the central Mozambican port , which provided a major fuel and transport artery for Zimbabwean trade . |
| 30 | Plus , it gave the world Anna Ford , Gordon Honeycombe , Selina Scott and , most excellently , Reginald Bosanquet , rug-wearing alleged drunk who was actually suspended for a month in 1976 to ‘ sort out his private life ’ . |