Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need you to cover me fer a couple of hours at th'most . |
| 2 | All I 'm askin' is that you stall fer a couple of hours . |
| 3 | Janabi failed to return to his job at the Ministry of Military Industrialization after a vacation in Jordan . |
| 4 | If we turn first to the best-known Tudor textbook , the so-called ‘ Royal Grammar ’ originally produced by Lily and Colet for St Paul 's School , but becoming virtually ubiquitous after a proclamation by Edward VI in 1548 ordering its use in all grammar schools — it was undoubtedly used by Shakespeare — we find that a pronoun is said to be ‘ a parte of speeche , much lyke to a noune , whyche is used in shewyng or rehersyng ’ . |
| 5 | Brigitte 's grand reunion with her new found family came after a separation from Nicolas of more than 10 years . |
| 6 | After a spell at Oriel College , Oxford , where he later claimed to have suffered a worthless and drunken tutor , he came to reside at Dumbleton on his grandmother 's death in 1690 and inaugurated a programme of rebuilding and improvement . |
| 7 | After a spell at Tie Rack , she found her own niche in socks . |
| 8 | LIKE Shakespearean scholars after a spell at Harvard Business School , the managers of the world 's best-known branded products have long pondered the question : what 's in a name ? |
| 9 | The boarding school was her father John 's idea after a spell at Grianan Training Centre — a school for girls with behavioural problems run by nuns under a strict regime — had failed to quell her rebellious attitude . |
| 10 | After a spell at Millbank as general manager planning , he went back to CIL as senior Vice President before moving to Melbourne as Chief Executive and Managing Director of ICI Australia . |
| 11 | After a spell at Leicester City , he returned to Wigan in 1989 as chief executive and took over team affairs when Ray Matthias was sacked . |
| 12 | Prop PAUL PRICKETT has returned to Glamorgan Wanderers after a spell with Cardiff . |
| 13 | He 's still young , could go into club management after a spell with England , and I bet he 's probably the *peoples choice * which would make his job easier as the press would think twice before having a go at him . |
| 14 | Now back with North after a spell with Ballymena he is keen to resume his playing career , injury permitting , but he wo n't allow his heart to rule his head . |
| 15 | After a spell with Queen of the South , Gallacher moved to Airdrionians to become a vital part of the club 's famous cup-winning team of 1924 . |
| 16 | Scott Lamb is back in their ranks after a spell with Newcastle . |
| 17 | After a spell of squadron service the aircraft was transferred to the Air Force Academy . |
| 18 | Cameron talked with Minerva , who was being magnanimously tolerant of her husband 's much-publicised affair with Nina Kenyon , and with Anne , who was well into the tertiary stage of her fourth marriage ( to Didier Bishopric , a society restaurateur ) and just back from the Betty Ford clinic after a spell of amphetamine dependency . |
| 19 | In his book on Maxwell , Joe Haines describes how Maxwell 's normally imperturbable secretary burst into tears after a spell of work when he had been even more demanding than usual . |
| 20 | General manager of Wolfgang Nitschke who returns to London after a spell as area director for New York and Chicago . |
| 21 | After a spell in Manchester ( 1908–11 ) as secretary of the North of England Society for Women 's Suffrage , she became honorary secretary ( 1911–15 ) of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage societies , led by ( Dame ) Millicent Fawcett [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | After a spell in teaching , she joined the Irish Times ; five years later , in 1973 , she was offered a job in the paper 's office in London , where she met her husband , writer Gordon Snell . |
| 23 | After a spell in Australia Biddles is back and celebrating a great victory … its a great story for our Friday Feature |
| 24 | Then , after a spell in prison , I took charge of a lodging house called La America . |
| 25 | But a stroke left him paralysed , and after a spell in hospital he moved in with his daughter and son-in-law . |
| 26 | Eventually , after a spell in Scandinavia , he met Steve Coppell and pleaded with the Palace boss for a trial . |
| 27 | Both aircraft were coded ‘ JO-U ’ ( one replaced the other ) , and one of these force-landed at Woodbridge after a raid on Politz in 1943 . |
| 28 | Also during this day as He111P bomber of 5/KG 4 , one of several units passing through Sicily following action during the early stages of the Balkan Campaign , force-landed in the sea after a raid on Valetta . |
| 29 | Share the tension and drama as the last Lancaster bomber is ‘ talked down ’ to safety after a raid over enemy territory . |
| 30 | Share the tension and the drama as the last Lancaster is ‘ talked down ’ to safety after a raid over enemy territory . |