Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , the activity all around him was reassuring , for every yard was another step nearer a payment to him . |
| 2 | We could ‘ ave tea at Ma 's , and then go up West in the evenin' fer a bit of all right . ’ |
| 3 | I need you to cover me fer a couple of hours at th'most . |
| 4 | All I 'm askin' is that you stall fer a couple of hours . |
| 5 | Janabi failed to return to his job at the Ministry of Military Industrialization after a vacation in Jordan . |
| 6 | They 're already legends in their own village shop after a play of their single on Radio 1 , and judging by their quietly addictive sixth form pop tunes , the whole of Rutland could soon follow . |
| 7 | ‘ One dress was called ‘ Dying Embers ’ after a lady at a fancy dress party who 'd claimed she was dressed as dying embers — and if someone did n't poke her soon she was going home ! |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | When Coleridge and the Wordsworths met together once more after a separation of several weeks , it was in the knowledge that the Alfoxden year would soon be over . |
| 10 | Brigitte 's grand reunion with her new found family came after a separation from Nicolas of more than 10 years . |
| 11 | ‘ As a guy , girls do not come after you like a guy would come after a girl in a band . |
| 12 | Therefore , because it is unlikely that there will ever be revised editions , and because I should just hate to see my name on anything that could not be relied on , the probability is that the books will progressively be withdrawn from publication after a currency of a few years . ’ |
| 13 | But the Neighbours crew dubbed me Bruiser after a scene in which I was supposed to hit Jason , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Reaction after a scene like that is never easy . |
| 15 | THERE was a time when , with other sides refusing to travel to Dublin because of ‘ the Troubles ’ and English skipper declared after a drubbing on Irish soil , ‘ We may not be any good — but at least we turn up . ’ |
| 16 | 3.4 Thereby after a regrading to GS3 and replacing NEw Technology Allowance with a PErsonal Allowance staff would suffer the following consequences . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | After a spell at Tie Rack , she found her own niche in socks . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The former Middlesbrough reserve bounced back to form after a spell on the sidelines by hammering a hat-trick in the 6–1 win over Harrogate Town on Tuesday . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Prop PAUL PRICKETT has returned to Glamorgan Wanderers after a spell with Cardiff . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Scott Lamb is back in their ranks after a spell with Newcastle . |
| 30 | 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 . |