Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a cursory search the carrier was waved through . |
| 2 | Chepstow is renowned for its soft ground and even two weeks ago after a prolonged drought the going was on the soft side . |
| 3 | A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years . |
| 4 | After a certain point the wants which it is intended to satisfy have to be artificially created in the first place by advertising and salesmanship . |
| 5 | After a successful return the crowd again got at the youth and Chapman decided to let him go , ‘ though it meant sacrificing a player who , I was convinced , had exceptional possibilities of development ’ . |
| 6 | After a stagnant half-hour the game sparked into life and Thistle quickly found themselves behind to a Kirk shot from a Davie Cooper cross , and a fine Paul McGrillen strike after magnificent work by Phil O'Donnell on the left . |
| 7 | After a long while the human put the paper down and reached over to the desk by its side . |
| 8 | After a long descent the shaft widened a little , and the light of their torches showed them the interior of the mine , the southern end of the tunnellings . |
| 9 | After a long siege the castle surrendered and de Montfort 's rebellion was over . ’ |
| 10 | When the laird returns after a long absence the shoals of herring fill the sea-loch outside the castle ; if a woman departs for the islands opposite , the shoals will desert the Macleods . |
| 11 | After a long silence the mother said , ‘ That was a bit of a surprise visit . ’ |
| 12 | After a long time the boy crossed the road and said to Oliver , |
| 13 | After a long time the man came in and said , ‘ Mr Evans , please . ’ |
| 14 | After a long time the tears stopped . |
| 15 | After a long time the computer said slowly , ‘ Computer is old . ’ |
| 16 | But after a two-year battle the Environment Minister has given his approval . |
| 17 | After a little way the rabbit-hole suddenly went down , deep into the ground . |
| 18 | After a general election the monarch has the formal responsibility to ask the leader of the majority party to form a government . |
| 19 | The point is this , after a general election the party that 's won , it 's share of the vote in the most , in , in the , in the opinion poll taken most immediately after the election it goes up , it 's higher than actually what it gets in the general election . |
| 20 | After a four-year moratorium the IRB is expected to make sweeping changes in the laws at their meeting in Wellington in April , during the NZRU Centenary celebrations . |
| 21 | But after a lengthy investigation the police ruled out foul play . |
| 22 | That excludes the hidden cost of unofficial late starts and days lost through ‘ flu ’ or ‘ food poisoning ’ after a heavy bevvy the night before . |
| 23 | After a night-long blizzard the villagers of Munding woke to find the water-meadows glittering and still , the ford across the lane crusted over . |
| 24 | But the Lancastrian army proved too powerful , and after a brave fight the defences were breached . |
| 25 | After a further 400yds the path regains the river , for a short time , by some moorings near the entrance to South Walsham Broad . |
| 26 | After a large crusade the Jeffreys would appoint a leader and give him the task of planting a new church with the fruits of the crusade . |
| 27 | After a one-year hiatus the Honeywell Bracknell Half-marathon is back with a new route and a new date , June 7 . |
| 28 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |
| 29 | After a few hours the butterflies can be released . |
| 30 | After a few moments the snuffles and grunts were overlaid by a voice explaining in sympathetically conspiratorial tones that we were listening to the sounds made by mating koalas in the Pilliga Nature Reserve in New South Wales . |