Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both matches resume tomorrow after a rest day today . |
| 2 | THE Pilkington Glass World Chess Championship semi-finals will resume this afternoon at Sadler 's Wells after a rest day yesterday . |
| 3 | At Štivan , by a beautiful church , the River Timavo emerged from the Kras after a twenty-mile journey underground from the village of Skocjan in Slovenia . |
| 4 | It was claimed their daughters were taken to the barn for sex after a pub night out with Harper and his friends , Wisdom Smith and Daniel Winter , both 19 . |
| 5 | The prosecution at Bristol Crown Court claimed the girls were taken to the barn after a pub night out with David Harper , 21 , and his friends Wisdom Smith and Daniel Winter , both 19 , for sex . |
| 6 | Those shares were offered at 200p , even after a 9p rise yesterday the market price is only 129p and a savage dividend cut looks inevitable this year . |
| 7 | Jockey Club inspectors and course management agreed that the track was unfit after a trial gallop yesterday . |
| 8 | It is a harsh punishment to have to walk the glider all the way back , particularly after a cable break where the glider lands in the middle of the airfield . |
| 9 | After a championship victory earlier in the year , at which circuit did his British fans risk their safety to mob him on the track ? |
| 10 | Peter Nicholas will be out of the Chelsea team for a month after a cartilage operation yesterday . |
| 11 | Peter Nicholas will be out of the Chelsea team for a month after a cartilage operation yesterday . |
| 12 | Members of the economic development and planning subcommittee voted to refuse planning permission after a site visit yesterday . |
| 13 | In West Germany there was some confusion after a television station accidentally broadcast Chancellor Kohl 's 1956 New Year message instead of the 1957 version . |
| 14 | The account of habituation offered in Chapter 2 held that dishabituation would occur after a retention interval when the input failed to match the ( partly forgotten ) representation of the stimulus — when the subject failed to recognize the test stimulus . |
| 15 | His father sent him after an owd man somewhere to come hoom ; and he had an owd pony . |
| 16 | ‘ They think Sybil was the victim of a walk-in thief maybe a junkie , and it 's possible the same person killed Angy . ’ |
| 17 | His swift rise to international acclaim was nevertheless tragically cut short when at only 42 he died of a heart attack just when ‘ poised to take his place alongside Barere , Friedman and Horowitz as the natural successors to Hofmann , Rachmaninov , Rosenthal , Godowsky and Lhevinne , all of whom had contributed to the last golden age of pianism ’ as Bryan Crimp , the dedicated compiler of this anthology of Levitzki 's total surviving electrical recordings for HMV , puts it in the accompany booklet . |
| 18 | Sadly , ( ) died of a heart attack just before Christmas . |
| 19 | He spoke movingly of his time in the trenches in the First War and of how a whole generation , many of them his friends , had been wiped out , of the effect that the unemployment of the 1930s had on his political thinking , of how being Prime Minister was less demanding than being an ordinary Minister , of ( and this with tears in his eyes ) his devotion to his late wife , who had fallen dead of a heart attack close to where we were sitting , of his belief in God . |
| 20 | REIGNING Champion Hurdler Royal Gait died of a heart attack yesterday after finishing fourth in the Bookmakers Hurdle at Leopardstown in Ireland . |
| 21 | LEGENDARY film-maker Hal Roach who died of a heart attack yesterday , aged 100 , became known as Hollywood 's Prince of Comedy . |
| 22 | Drugs squad officers in Wiltshire discovered another drug factory in the bedroom of a council house yesterday . |
| 23 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |
| 24 | He served us mulled wine sprinkled with cinnamon and heated with a red hot poker and then emptied the contents of a saddle bag on to the table ; it contained a few faded white rose petals and pieces of parchment . |
| 25 | An engraving from 1737 by John Kip ( private collection ) of St Clement Danes , Strand shows a shop-front of a furnishing undertaker not dissimilar to that of Messrs Barnard 's premises in an anonymous water-colour ( c.1850 ) in Brighton Museum . |
| 26 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
| 27 | The figures are published on a day when arsonists destroyed part of a shopping centre just a few hours after thieves stealing television sets had also tried to start a fire . |
| 28 | It is apparent that the conversion to domestic use of a textile mill up to 48m ( 158ft ) wide is like to pose problems . |
| 29 | In order to utilize the available computing capacity of a CAD system most efficiently , the structure of data storage becomes a critical factor . |
| 30 | Just a table and a chair and a telephone that would n't be secure , and the room was two floors and the length of a ministry corridor away from the Operations Co-ordination Centre of the Counter-Terrorism section at police headquarters . |