Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a spell at the rehabilitation centre , Guy 's parents realized it was a mistake , and tried to have him transferred to a specialist stroke rehabilitation centre in London , even though this was a long way from home . |
| 2 | A Co Armagh shop was robbed of £25,000 worth of goods this week — days after a copy-cat-raid at the same shop failed . |
| 3 | The Society 's first winner of the new season was the irrepressible Robbie Kennelly ( 9 ) , he played the front nine in a modest 16pts after a blank at the ninth despite another blank at the tenth Robbie covered the last eight holes in a blistering 22pts with birdies at 11 and 7 for a grand total of 38pts . |
| 4 | In one case a child was removed from her mother after a fracture at the age of 18 months . |
| 5 | Detectives want to hear from anyone offered cheap fish after a burglary at the Golden Flatts fish and chip shop in Jutland Road , Hartlepool . |
| 6 | Hammersmith and Fulham council was alerted in the the night on 1 February after a caretaker at the block of flats called in the authorities when neighbours became concerned . |
| 7 | Fire crews swilled away fuel after a spillage at the corner of The Avenue and Farndale Drive in Guisborough yesterday . |
| 8 | All a long way from a pint of mild and a bag of chips after a night at the City Varieties … |
| 9 | In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal , and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins 's tea party , moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz . |
| 10 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 11 | After a period at the Tramway Museum , it was transferred to a working line in Manchester 's Heaton Park in 1979 , and repainted in full Company livery . |
| 12 | The last of the finals was on Saturday night ( after a luncheon at the Rivercrest Country Club ) , with works of Chopin , Brahms and Rachmaninov that we had come to know and love ; and there must have been 700 people at the Forth Worth Club party afterwards . |
| 13 | A Radioactive cloud that drifted across Britain after a fire at the Windscale nuclear factory in Cumbria in 1957 may have killed hundreds of people . |
| 14 | In 1866 , after a term at the National Art Training School in South Kensington , she was invited to use a small studio in St John 's Wood , owned by her uncle , George Hering , a landscape artist . |
| 15 | After a reception at The Swan Hotel , Alton , the couple left for their honeymoon in Florida , the bride wearing a floral dress with gold jacket and flower from the veil in her hair . |
| 16 | After a reception at The Old Inn , Crawfordsburn , the couple left on honeymoon to the Continent . |
| 17 | They were married on 3rd June at the Grange Church in Kilmarnock and after a reception at the Bellisle Hotel , Ayr , they re-visited Blackpool once again for their honeymoon . |
| 18 | In spite of this , after a show at the University of East Anglia last year , a punter came up and said , ‘ That bit about tampons was great , 'cos you really embarrassed some of the girls . ’ |
| 19 | After a birdie at the first , we ran into a bit of trouble at the 6th , a hole Lee had criticized because he felt you should n't have to ‘ lay up ’ on any par-4in an Open . |
| 20 | Dorothy Snook , of Bristol , will be on cloud nine after a stay at the Hereford Moat Hotel , which includes flying lessons , a balloon flight and a helicopter lesson . |
| 21 | Mark has settled well after a hiccough at the start . |
| 22 | It is unsporting , and great fun , to look back after a match at the prophecies of the pundits . |
| 23 | Gleizes and Le Fauconnier became friendly in 1909 after a meeting at the home of a young socialist writer named Alexandre Mercereau , where Gleizes also met Metzinger and Delaunay for the first time in the following year , although these meetings did not lead to immediate friendship , and Gleizes knew little about their work . |
| 24 | After a week at the John Radcliffe Hospital her heart condition is showing all the signs of clearing up . |
| 25 | Write the apostrophe and then the s and that 's the only reason for putting an apostrophe before an s , or after an s at the , at the end of a word . |
| 26 | He entered the profession after an apprenticeship at the Jesuit college he attended in Sheffield , where his father , a salesman in steel , had moved from London with his young son . |
| 27 | Mrs Jenks had her skittish moments ; particularly after an evening at the music hall , and a few port and lemons . |
| 28 | They 'd gone to the barn with David Harper , Daniel Winter and Wisdom Smith after an evening at the pub . |
| 29 | Bush became tired and breathless and , after an examination at the camp 's infirmary , he was flown to the Bethesda Naval Medical Centre in Washington DC . |
| 30 | Two men have been arrested following a break-in at the Kenton Theatre in New Street , Henley at lunch time . |