Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Barker , who runs a TV and video repair shop in Parliament Road , Middlesbrough , recently called in the police after a customer 's cheque for £22 was returned . |
| 2 | After a century 's diagnosis of the ills of London 's health service many in Britain will welcome almost any prescription that stops 15% of the population consuming 20% of NHS resources . |
| 3 | After a Ploughman 's lunch with his wife Pandora and 4 children , he drove his Renault Espace van back up the lane to their luxury home in Hailey village , saying nothing about his financial situation . |
| 4 | I remembered once , in the middle of summer two years ago , when I was coming down the path in the late dusk after a day 's walking in the hills beyond the town , I saw in the gathering night strange lights , shifting in the air over and far beyond the island . |
| 5 | When Chola was kneading the dough for ro is , tired after a day 's work in the fields , exasperated by the twins ' hungry grizzling , the chickens flapping around the bowl and the dogs ' beady eyes , she 'd lash out , screaming , and the red bitch would yelp exaggeratedly and skulk off to a corner . |
| 6 | In the commonplace crush of damp and steaming humanity returning home after a day 's work in the city , worries over Nadirpur and Clarion Call seemed grossly exaggerated . |
| 7 | They would load it for Pelham Street after a day 's work in the factory , drive there and back in a night , and report for work as usual the next morning . |
| 8 | They all worked at the BUPA South Bank Hospital in Worcester , and were returning after a day 's training at a hospital in Cardiff when the crash happened . |
| 9 | But one evening after a day 's shooting on Sergeant Ryker in 1963 , Marvin was continually baited by a drunk until Marvin grabbed a banjo from somewhere and smashed it over the other man 's head , drawing blood and knocking out his teeth . |
| 10 | For 1992 they re-employ the services of Australian Mark Waugh , who returns after a year 's sabbatical during which the county was well served by Salim Malik . |
| 11 | His Williams team-mate , Alain Prost , marked his return to Formula One yesterday after a year 's sabbatical by claiming provisional pole position . |
| 12 | After a year 's study with the Revd C. Hodgson at Brathay Vicarage , Ambleside , he entered Trinity College , Cambridge in 1845 , where he began a lifelong friendship with Henry Bradshaw and Dr Fenton Hort [ qq.v. ] , and came under the influence of the writings of F. D. Maurice [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | He further denied claims by former colleagues that he threatened senior staff after leaving the company in 1991 after a year 's employment as manager of its Magherafelt office . |
| 14 | Last year , after a fortnight 's holiday in California , his first for two years , he complained , ‘ My wife would n't let me take any work with me ’ . |
| 15 | After a fortnight 's visit with her mother to her aunt Mrs Poole at Ramsgate , Helen decided that she must earn some money and , if possible , live away from home where her mother 's grief-stricken restrictions and excessive dependency — so she thought — would curtail that freedom of action and expression in which her father had encouraged her . |
| 16 | Little Hermia , a changed pony after a fortnight 's attention from Perdita , danced and snatched at her bit in excitement . |
| 17 | Border regained the Aussie captaincy from opening batsman Mark Taylor after a fortnight 's lay-off with a hamstring injury . |
| 18 | Police rang them as they headed north after a friend 's wedding in the Home Counties . |
| 19 | After a month 's stay at UCH ( University College Hospital in Central London ) I was transferred to specialist cardiologist Dr Jane Sommerville at the then National Heart Hospital . |
| 20 | Mrs Butler came to live here at Fewcott House after a month 's stay in hospital . |
| 21 | Bunny loves cooking ( she is trained to cordon bleu standard ) and after a lifetime 's experience of entertaining , cooking for her guests presents no problem . |
| 22 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 23 | We must never again allow , now that we 're all too painfully aware of the consequences any company to cheat and swindle any working man or woman after a lifetime 's toil from the right to a happy and dignified and financially secure retirement . |
| 24 | William Riley Parker 's monumental biography of Milton , which appeared after a lifetime 's research in 1968 , resolutely portrays Milton 's involvement with the politics of the mid-seventeenth century as an unfortunate distraction . |
| 25 | As for magic , which readers of Frazer 's The Golden Bough might suppose to lie at the very centre of the anthropologist 's interests , I can only say that , after a lifetime 's career as a professional anthropologist , I have almost reached the conclusion that the word has no meaning whatever . |
| 26 | Gazza after a doctor 's inquiry into why he has become the ‘ fat boy ’ of soccer |
| 27 | ‘ All right , ’ said Camille , after a moment 's pause for recollection . |
| 28 | He resigned after a fans ' demonstration at a reserve team game . |
| 29 | On 7 June , after a week 's resistance by Major Sylvain Raynal and 600 men , with a heroism hardly equalled in the war , Fort Vaux finally fell . |
| 30 | AFTER a week 's exposure to American television 's sports coverage it was a relief to watch television at home . |