Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the restaurants is the Savini , Milan 's most prestigious , where opera-goers congregate after a performance to while away the rest of the evening in expensive surroundings . |
| 2 | after a couple of hours overtime , . |
| 3 | The case is hard to argue against , and even harder after a couple of Tories just get up and say flatly that they will be voting for the lady . |
| 4 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 5 | He was on the mark with a double booking midway through the second half after a scuffle between Crusaders right back Dave Mallon and Newry 's John White . |
| 6 | Some Johannesburg hotels provided armed escorts for their guests after a spate of muggings recently . |
| 7 | CUMBERNAULD have been banned by the Scottish Rugby Union from playing until next season after a match against Earlston earlier this month was abandoned by the referee , writes George Barton . |
| 8 | CUMBERNAULD have been banned by the Scottish Rugby Union from playing until next season after a match against Earlston earlier this month was abandoned by the referee . |
| 9 | The warning came after a meeting in London yesterday of senior conveners . |
| 10 | After a meeting in London yesterday to discuss a replacement for the Taurus paperless trading system — which collapsed last week after incurring development costs of more than £400 million — Terry Pearson , the Royal Bank 's senior securities adviser , said : ‘ We had total agreement on some key issues . |
| 11 | After an investment of £23½m over five years in its American business , it made a profit last year . |
| 12 | After an evening of work here , she felt she must look like a cod or haddock herself with dull eyes and open mouth . |
| 13 | Income tax was minimal ; Marie Webster had an old demand showing that of a total of $604 only $3.90 was payable . |
| 14 | of a description of property ordinarily intended for private use , occupation or consumption ; and |
| 15 | Thus s5(3) states : ( 3 ) A person shall not be liable under section 2 above for any loss of or damage to any property which , at the time it is lost or damaged , is not- ( a ) of a description of property ordinarily intended for private use , occupation or consumption ; and ( b ) intended by the person suffering the loss or damage mainly for his own private use , occupation or consumption . |
| 16 | In the course of a description of Henchard late in the novel , Hardy says , " [ QUOTE ] " . |
| 17 | I do n't remember much about our arrival , only that the fourteen-kilometre drive from the airport was something of a nightmare with visibility almost nil in pouring rain mixed with flurries of hail and howling gusts of wind . |
| 18 | In the case of a buy-out of assets rather than shares , the apportionment of the consideration to each of the assets may itself have tax implications . |
| 19 | Do n't think he 'd get much of a look-in with free-kicks now with Dorigo and Macca fighting over it . |
| 20 | It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman . |
| 21 | Indeed fluidity — of both form and texture is perhaps the chief characteristic of a type of music so free and richly varied that it defies definition . |
| 22 | Following the secondment of a member of staff overseas , a vacancy for the above post has arisen in the Department of Agricultural Water Management . |
| 23 | In reaching this conclusion the court argued that freedom of contract was a fundamental right , and that if parliament intended to empower a third party to make conditions which affected the provisions of a contract between others then this should be expressed in clear terms . |
| 24 | In Carter 's case , this ungainly , elaborate , opulent press conference is their first giant step into the mad , bad world of record company hype — a joke that got out of control — and , after all the fanfare and foreplay , to have them finally sitting there in the middle of a hall in Belgium almost seems like a punchline that is n't very funny . |
| 25 | There may also be problems in deciding on the segmentation of a word into letters e.g. the letter combination cl can easily confuse with the letter d . |
| 26 | At the other end of the table from Dowd , sitting in front of a heap of newspapers doubtless carrying the Burke reports , sat a professorial man in his sixties , white hair oiled to his scalp . |
| 27 | Even from this distance of a couple of tables away one could sense the crackle of electricity between them . |
| 28 | There 's a portfolio of properties at the high values of a couple of years ago . |
| 29 | The race started under heavy cloud — a contrast to the brilliant sunshine of a couple of days earlier and saw many contenders trying to push Swanson to the limit . |
| 30 | Do you think there was more of a sense of community then or |