Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " 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 | After a fight between lads from Menheniot and Liskeard , at which he had been champion of the victorious Liskeard team , the local constable had intervened . |
| 4 | He was returning home on Saturday night after a drink with friends at the Haughton Le Skerne Working Men 's Club when the attack happened . |
| 5 | Mal Gibb joined a Lancaster scheme after a degree in systems modelling at Sheffield Polytechnic and is now helping to develop computerised production at Nairn Kingfisher , a wallpaper plant on the Lancaster quayside . |
| 6 | Mal Gibb joined a Lancaster scheme after a degree in systems modelling at Sheffield Polytechnic and is now helping to develop computerised production at Nairn Kingfisher , a wallpaper plant on the Lancaster quayside . |
| 7 | The 21-year-old from Redruth , Cornwall , was arrested on Christmas Eve after a tip-off to police . |
| 8 | After a tip-off to police the baby was recovered and he was reunited with his mother at a West Midlands hospital four hours after he was taken . |
| 9 | After a campaign by councillors , a registration scheme was set up in the Cheyney Road , Garden Lane and Ermine Road areas of the city . |
| 10 | During the trial the court heard that Connelly was arrested on January 10 1992 after a quantity of explosives , a timer power unit and detonators were found in the kitchen of his home at Westrock Drive in west Belfast . |
| 11 | You do not go out after a dragon with hounds and huntsmen ; nor with gangs of labourers to dig pits and set fires and lay traps . |
| 12 | From there , after a change of buses and yet another lunch-time fast , the road climbed up into a bare landscape of mountains sweeping into each other , before it settled into the endless vistas of the high altiplano , a treeless puna 3,962 metres above sea level ; home for llamas , alpacas and the Aymara Indians . |
| 13 | After a request for stamps , he describes a few enjoyable , healthy hours out of doors walking with Dad from ten to three without a rest : We met a country girl , pale faced , delicate , tall , wrapped up to her neck in winter clothes & feeling cold in spite of all ; her eyes were timid & weak ; evidently she was suffering as girls do , & was going out to get the fresh air . |
| 14 | Easing American monetary policy now would affect the economy only after a delay of months . |
| 15 | The court had heard how the raid had been abandoned after a cache of tools and equipment commonly used in bank raids was discovered in a bus shelter . |
| 16 | Every so often he has ‘ comeback ’ matches … but then after a couple of games he s out again . |
| 17 | After a couple of moves I gained the crest of this and draped a big sling over its tip before setting off on a journey of discovery down the other side of the offending obstacle . |
| 18 | And you end up writing guitar music which sometimes is okay , but after a couple of records I 'd written enough guitar music for a while . |
| 19 | QPR v Everton After a couple of wins QPR have found a familiar rut and Everton , who arrested their decline with a win at Derby , will be hoping for something similar at Shepherds Bush . |
| 20 | After a couple of moments of deep breathing , the giddiness receded . |
| 21 | After a couple of sentences he went into the present tense , which was a habit he had in speaking of the past , as if it were the plot of some play he was about to do . |
| 22 | After a couple of glasses of champagne and a hamburger , and under the influence of my friends ' euphoria , I cheered up . |
| 23 | After a couple of glasses I think you 'll be ready for round two . ’ |
| 24 | Mind you few customers are likely to care what they 're eating after a couple of glasses of Mulsum : Salute . |
| 25 | Funnily enough , I felt better after a couple of pints at a pub in Maida Vale ; you know , the trendy one among Guardian readers which has the really stupid long name and brews its own beer in the cellar . |
| 26 | After a couple of decades of comparative calm , the names of Armstrong and Elliot began to reappear in familiar practices . |
| 27 | If county shops put fanzines in , then we spectators can decide whether or not to slog them out of the ground after a couple of deliveries . |
| 28 | Then , after a couple of minutes , I entered the house in time to see Lovat and a few Commandos dashing upstairs . |
| 29 | After a couple of minutes Phoebe recovered her breath ; she pushed herself off the wall with her hands and went through the stairwell doorway into the green-painted corridor . |
| 30 | After a couple of minutes she tried again . |