Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is just that after much brainwork in Rome I have thought to give myself a little holiday on this famous Capri Island . ’ |
| 2 | After much ceremony in Accra he was buried in his birth-place , Nkroful . |
| 3 | After six weeks in hospital she was allowed back home . |
| 4 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
| 5 | After brief schooling in York he was educated privately by George Walker FRS ( 1734 ? –1807 , q.v. ) in Nottingham and George Cadogan Morgan [ q.v. ] in Southgate , Middlesex , two Nonconformist ministers selected by his mother . |
| 6 | Inevitably , I saw the prison through the eyes of a western visitor , but after three months in India I had acquired at least a superficial understanding of the country and its penal philosophy . |
| 7 | After three months in hospital he returns to the car park , seeks out the girl and gives her another ticket with time left on it . |
| 8 | After 5 days in Rotorua we went south to Taupo , a disappointing touristy place except for a lovely walk to the Huka Falls beside the crystal-clear , swirling waters of the Waikato River , and a visit to Cherry Island ( in the river ) where you are warmly greeted by numerous tame animals and birds as you roam around . |
| 9 | Although she stated that after 25 years in government she was keen to seek new challenges , there was widespread speculation that she would resume her political career in 1992 by contesting either the governorship or a Senate seat in her native North Carolina . |
| 10 | After visiting Herzen in London he accused him of substituting passion for reason . |
| 11 | After nine months in office he still is uncertain whether to go fast or slow on any issue from the Russians to oil slicks . |
| 12 | After five years in Yorkshire he was transferred to Manchester City for £56,000 and a year later made the fateful move to Torino . |
| 13 | After five years in Vienna he taught in Trieste , Greece and Moldavia before studying philosophy in Halle . |
| 14 | After several days in Nairobi he took the train to Mombasa where he caught a ship to England ; there , soon after my brother Dermot was born , he rejoined my mother . |
| 15 | After two rides in company we went out on our own , on a route he had already covered with Paddy . |
| 16 | After two months in kennels they move on to the dog supply unit for 11 months , during which time they will be required to train at least six dogs up to the blindfold standard , and pass the guide dog trainer examination . |
| 17 | After two weeks in Czechoslovakia he was climbing in a style usually reserved for winter . |
| 18 | But he pulled through , and after 14 months in hospital he was finally allowed home . |
| 19 | Given the predominance of feudal relations in Russia it was impossible for the men of the 1860s and 70s to see that capitalism was already spreading and inevitably must do so . |
| 20 | Make sure you leave at least a page at the end of each question in case you suddenly g cos what can often happen is you 're writing the answer to one and you think , oh that relates to the earlier one . |
| 21 | Because EXAFS enables us to look at the atomic environment of each alkali in turn we may begin to understand the structural basis of this curious effect . |
| 22 | ‘ As a direct result of that failure in policy-making we have had radioactive leaks at Sellafield and a loss of public confidence in that plant and in nuclear power generally , ’ he wrote . |
| 23 | Well three sort of top professors in America they |
| 24 | It may be sufficient to remark that when the instrument was demonstrated to an assembly of interested parties in Oxford it met with great approval . |
| 25 | And when I last looked at it , one question on behaviour modification had managed to creep on there as well but I ca n't remember what the question is , so you 'd better pay attention for the whole of the rest of this lecture in case I in case I remember it . |
| 26 | Because of this difference in numbers we had to exclude altogether a small area of Newham from our study , in order to achieve a sample size manageable for our purposes . |
| 27 | She was appalled that women should be attended by male doctors , and of male attendance in childbirth she wrote : |
| 28 | While it is not necessary to cover all of these activities in detail it is important , if the interest of the audience is to be held , to show some indications of the passage of time . |
| 29 | It 's like one of these films in reverse you know . |
| 30 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |