Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm goin' fer an interview , ’ he said with a grimace . |
| 2 | The scheme was halted last year after an alliance of environmentalists and native Americans succeeded in obtaining a judicial order on the grounds that a number of endangered species , including the purple warty back mussel , had been found about a mile from a planned drainage pipe outlet . |
| 3 | Amid all the excitement and turbulence of the days after an election , newly appointed cabinet ministers must find a moment to learn how to kneel and kiss the hand of the Queen , in order that they may become members of the Queen 's Privy Council , together with opposition leaders , selected Commonwealth statesmen , churchmen like the Archbishop of Canterbury and senior civil servants . |
| 4 | It has , however , become the habit to assume that Central Office is of little importance immediately after an election and to give the chairman 's job to some minor figure in the party , replacing him later with someone of greater stature . |
| 5 | Standard procedure after an election is to review the spending promises which were put in to please voters and , now that they have served their turn , cut some of them out . |
| 6 | I understand that all the counterfoils and voting slips cast are kept securely for a period after an election until they are eventually destroyed . |
| 7 | Policy decided in inter-party haggling after an election , not by voters during it . |
| 8 | Reasons of this sort dictate that the political impetus accompanying Ministers on arrival at their departments after an election is usually a good deal less noticeable at the Home Office than elsewhere in Whitehall . |
| 9 | If the local organization after an election remained active , on a permanent basis of annual subscription , with a permanent organizing secretary who would attend to the registration work and become the agent at the next election , a candidate could , and probably would , be selected on his merits , and the constituency would be independent of men whose only merit was their wealth . |
| 10 | Only a few , largely of the younger members , consider that at least for the first few years after an election , the House as a whole should keep a wary eye on the government and seek to support or influence its policy irrespective of the line taken by the official Opposition . |
| 11 | This leaves very little time after an election is called so you will need to act quickly . |
| 12 | He or she may recommend chiropody , or visits from a district nurse ; or physiotherapy may be required to help regain mobility after an operation . |
| 13 | here it is being checked over back in base after an operation |
| 14 | The 25-year-old all-rounder missed most of the 1989 season with a badly bruised thumb but has recovered after an operation in the summer . |
| 15 | Lenihan , 32 , who made the first of his 52 international appearances against Australia in 1981 , missed all of last season 's Five Nations programme after an operation to repair damage to his neck . |
| 16 | She was the first Siamese twin of her kind after an operation in March 1985 performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Prof Spitz . |
| 17 | All eight were rescued unharmed on Tuesday morning after an operation in which Mr Friend 's experience as rescue team captain helped to keep morale high . |
| 18 | As recently as 1980 Cash became addicted to morphine after an operation to crushed ribs sustained in a fight with an ostrich ( his home in Hendersonville , Tennessee , is said to be a real menagerie ) . |
| 19 | The surgeon instructed a patient not to bend her back after an operation . |
| 20 | She had much enjoyed her work as classroom assistant in a school for handicapped children , but after an operation and slow recovery to full health , she was persuaded by her family not to return to work . |
| 21 | Only twenty-two months of the sentence were served , Gandhi being released from prison when his health broke down after an operation for appendicitis . |
| 22 | She had been crying again and her mascara had been washed away and she looked like an eleven-year-old waking up in hospital after an operation . |
| 23 | It was in April that year that Margaret Jourdain died , rather unexpectedly , after an operation . |
| 24 | Harry had died of pneumonia after an operation on his kidneys . |
| 25 | Last night Clare 's parents were at her hospital bedside as she recovered after an operation on her horrific wounds . |
| 26 | He was stable last night after an operation . |
| 27 | The stone ( not a marble , but some kind of limestone ) looked just as one would expect after an operation to remove dirt and accumulated grime , and I do not see why this aspect of the work should give rise to so much concern . |
| 28 | Thus a woman on a bus describing the way a mutual friend has been behaving , getting out of bed too soon after an operation , concludes her turn in the conversation by saying |
| 29 | They wash them , help them perform the intimate functions of relieving bladder and bowels , change dressings on wounds , give medicine , help them take their first steps after an operation , make beds , waken them up , tell them to go to sleep , close their eyes when they die . |
| 30 | Their son Rudolph , whose wedding was the first to be celebrated in Liverpool Cathedral , died in 1929 after an operation for appendicitis ; his twin sons died in infancy . |