Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years she had grown to love him in a familiar , comfortable sort of way , though of late a change in temperament had made him difficult . |
| 2 | ‘ I am extremely sorry to inform you of the death of poor Mary Flint — the haemorrhage from the stomach had ceased for nearly a week in consequence of which her other symptoms became aggravated . |
| 3 | Now , you did once tell me , very very recently in fact , that you were the the father of this Council s with rather a contradiction in fact was that because I 've seen you trotting around the corridors of this er this Council and it you 're more like the baby of the Council than er than the father , but I I do bow to your superior knowledge of Councilling . |
| 4 | The long hot summers , coupled with perhaps a spell in oak casks , dish up the gooseberries in the friendlier guise of stewed fruit with sugar . |
| 5 | For a Masai a broad , grassy plain with barely a tree in sight is preferable . |
| 6 | There had been a running buffet in the kitchen and they helped themselves when they were hungry , like gauchos on an Argentine estancia , but meals glued life together for Alan 's family and he could be heard intoning , intoning , instructing , instructing in his foggy monotone with never a word in reply , until the children were able to ‘ get down ’ . |
| 7 | It was the first time the 25-year-old has been able to speak about her ordeal since she was found early on Friday morning after being abducted from near a disco in south Dublin . |
| 8 | On a purely practical note , all this added up to quite a bit in value and Ivy Cottage did not appear to have any extra locks or catches at the windows . |
| 9 | The purchaser will have conducted its own investigation of the vendor 's business in the negotiations which lead up to either an agreement in principle or a more formal acknowledgement of agreement by the use of heads of terms ( see Chapter 1 , page 9 ) . |
| 10 | Do you like to know where , for quite a while in advance what you 're going to sing then ? |
| 11 | In cold temperatures the eggs are very resistant and can survive for over a year in soil . |
| 12 | Third , the plasma has to retain its energy for at least a second in order that enough reactions take place to deliver more energy than was consumed in setting the system up . |
| 13 | But before he 's even fit enough to be flown home , doctors say he 'll have to spend at least a fortnight in hospital . |
| 14 | As the teachers ' notes had to be available at least a fortnight in advance of the visit , some lack of precision was inevitable . |
| 15 | For really reliable stability a design should have a rate of closure in the Bode plot of less than 6 dB per octave and all break points of the linear approximation should be at least a decade in frequency away from the intersection corresponding to . |
| 16 | ‘ A scrip dividend alternative is very significantly more expensive to administer and would also involve a delay of at least a month in payment of the dividend . |
| 17 | There is a new requirement that people organising demonstrations and processions in the streets should tell the police at least a week in advance , which is a good thing . |