Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Trust claims it ca n't afford to carry out her wishes , and after an all-day meeting with proespective buyers at Townsends Solicitors in Swindon , it announced tonight that the manor has been sold . |
| 2 | After an uncertain glance at his mistress , Hector slunk after her . |
| 3 | THE world teetered on the brink of a new Cold War for 30 minutes yesterday after an astonishing speech by Russia 's Foreign Minister . |
| 4 | Faye exclaimed , after an anxious glance at Belinda , her bright mouth creasing into two thin lines . |
| 5 | After an intraduodenal pulse of 100 µmol HCl , the release of PGE 2 appreciably increased in all three groupsof rats . |
| 6 | However , after an uncomfortable night with hardly any sleep , a rudimentary wash at the station , an hour 's work , a long train journey , a long walk to a day centre for a shower , and then with another long walk ahead of me , the return train journey , a further hour 's hard work and another uncomfortable night , day in , day out — I 'm a sprightly so-and-so but something else on top of all that did seem like perhaps too much of a good thing . |
| 7 | Thessy arrived first , tired after an uncomfortable night on the ferry , and five minutes later Bellybutton half danced and half shuffled down the pontoon with a can of paint and a pocketful of rags and brushes . |
| 8 | Herbert 's eccentricity was to dress as a tramp , and his appearance was further affected by his blindness and by a piebald hair coloration , after an early attack of alopecia . |
| 9 | Gimbert came to Bordeaux after an early flirtation with Biarritz , where he played alongside his current front row partner in the French team , the Agen police inspector , Gregoire Lascubé . |
| 10 | It came about because , after an early night in the same bed as that slept in by the Prince , Dr Johnson , who had a cold and had been rendered a little deaf by it , ‘ spoke of Prince Charles being here , and asked Mrs Macdonald , ‘ Who was with him ? |
| 11 | After an early life of sailing most of the seven seas , John built himself a 45ft ( 13.7m ) clipper-bowed ketch and named her Outward Bound . |
| 12 | Mr Paisley said he had taken up an invitation from Miss Boothroyd to raise his concerns after an unsuccessful request by Upper Bann MP David Trimble for an urgent debate in the Commons yesterday . |
| 13 | 111 trying to get back to its Norwegian base after an unsuccessful attack on the flying-boat base farther down the firth . |
| 14 | HYWEL Davies , who lost £50 after an unsuccessful objection at Wolverhampton on Tuesday , recovered it handsomely yesterday with a 54-1 treble on Precious Link , Breakfast Car and Wizzard Artist at Plumpton . |
| 15 | So after an unsuccessful attempt by a right wing government to have the Opera buried ; a series of firings and resignations — Barenboim , Boulez and a rupture with Nureyev — the Bastille is preparing to open . |
| 16 | After an unsuccessful merger with Ryman , the office equipment chain , Conran bought back the Habitat name and shops . |
| 17 | One survivor told me that her apprenticeship lasted about four years and that that was normal at the time ( she started work in 1909 at 15 after an unsuccessful start in dressmaking ) . |
| 18 | After an unsuccessful week in the channel the ship put into Falmouth for stores . |
| 19 | After an eight-year sojourn in Rutland the OCU moved again , in February 1976 to Marham , having in the meantime ceased PR conversion and lost its PR.3s . |
| 20 | Leicester 3 , Barnsley 1 A SECOND successive Gary Mills penalty helped Leicester City to victory and took them well into the promotion play-off frame after an awkward encounter at Filbert Street , writes Henry Morton . |
| 21 | After an indifferent start to the season Surrey 's David Ward bounced back with a NatWest century against Glamorgan , then went on to record the fastest first-class hundred of the season ( 70 balls ) against Northants |
| 22 | After an indifferent game against Costa Rica and an inspirational performance against Sweden when he saved Scotland 's skin on several occasions , Leighton 's luck finally ran out . |
| 23 | After an ungainly dash across the rocks he comes to rest at my side with an almighty splash . |
| 24 | A TERRIFIED pensioner had to wait an hour for police to arrive after an attempted burglary at her Teesside home . |
| 25 | A Monte Carlo simulation-based approach is used as a general means of estimating the effects of input data uncertainty on the map outputs after an arbitrary sequence of GIS operations . |
| 26 | Eastern Electricity gained 3p to £4 , after an interim rise from £15.4m to £26.1m . |
| 27 | The gesture , according to Hollywood lore , was born of Henreid 's nervous incompetence at lighting Davis 's cigarette in the conventional fashion , and was suggested by the director after an unacceptable number of botched ‘ takes ’ . |
| 28 | The band , who promised to be massive after an effortless rise to the top during the Manchester thingy in 1990 , eventually became a figure of fun in the music Press . |
| 29 | After an injury-affected row at Queen 's Regatta when they finished third , BRC will be looking to lift the magnificent Shannon Rowing Club Challenge Cup won by Queen 's University 20 years ago with their main opposition coming from Galway . |
| 30 | The remaining eleven works arrived back in April this year after an out-of-court settlement by the Kulturstiftung and the Ministry of the Interior . |