Example sentences of "[to-vb] a post [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you for your letter of in which you notified me of your intention to accept a post with effect from . |
| 2 | However , the county council was reluctant to establish a post for a tutor in adult education and other options had to be considered . |
| 3 | The applicant , who was strongly connected to the voters of Angus , sought Panmure 's assistance to obtain a post of inspector of customs for his son , Robert Fullerton , who had served for five years as clerk of the customs and had acted as inspector when some of these officers were under suspension . |
| 4 | I was at length summoned for interview , during which I was told that the War Office wished to fill a post of Instructor-cum-British Adviser at the Staff College and Royal Military College , Baghdad , Iraq , and that in order to reassure the Iraqi High Command that they were not sending a British ‘ plant ’ ( for relations between the two countries were strained ) , they asked the British Council to fill it . |
| 5 | When terrorism was bad we used to man a post on the main road , stopping traffic and questioning the occupants . |
| 6 | He tried to get a post at the British Museum , and was most indignant when it went to George Children , a friend of Davy and thus possessing superior patronage . |
| 7 | Some people waited three years to get a post for a promotion they had you know , three beers , years back . |
| 8 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |