Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a little way I halted and looked back . |
| 2 | After a little way the rabbit-hole suddenly went down , deep into the ground . |
| 3 | Pinkie said nothing about this because he was dazed by gin , and was not paying , and Richard said nothing because , after a little thought , he concluded that the wine was good enough for Pinkie . |
| 4 | Only four or so turns of the screw secure the blade , and quick changes were possible after a little practice . |
| 5 | After a little practice the full statements may be omitted as the mnemonics will ensure that the data is transmitted in the correct sequence . |
| 6 | ‘ Let me fetch you some water , ’ he said gently to the distressed figure on the sofa after a little time had passed . |
| 7 | So , after a little research in Bangkok , I wrote a few letters and made a few calls and found a Brother distributer . |
| 8 | The Wright amendment , named after a former speaker of the House , Jim Wright , permits flights leaving Dallas 's Love Field to fly only to cities in Texas and four neighbouring states . |
| 9 | One in the British Museum ( fig. 77 ) has been known since the eighteenth century and is called the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo after a former owner . |
| 10 | Allegations of a government-sponsored campaign against the PPP [ see pp. 38152 ; 38338 ] grew after a former adviser to Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif claimed that he had been a member of one of two " election cells " created by Sharif 's Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) which had " rigged the 1990 elections by adding 20,000 bogus votes " in a number of constituencies to ensure the defeat of the PPP [ see pp. 37763-64 ] . |
| 11 | 50 After a half century of building and prosperity in the newly proclaimed Empire , Sigmar vanishes into the east . |
| 12 | The Dubliners had 58 runs to spare after a half century by Mark Cohen helped them reach 181 . |
| 13 | It was a little short , but she managed quite well after a few practice steps . |
| 14 | I had to eventually sort it out after a few sorta threats off the bank . |
| 15 | A friend of mine once returned to her house after a few month 's absence and found that though the font of her desk looked exactly the same as before she left , termites had eaten out the back of it and destroyed the contents of several drawers . |
| 16 | And the consequences of a latter approach could lead to accumulative change in the appearance and nature and character of the countryside so that you get something rather different than most people 's perception of a countryside being there for its own sake . |
| 17 | A court in Pune ( Maharashtra ) on Oct. 24 convicted and sentenced to death two militant Sikh separatists , Harjinda Singh and Sukhdev Singh , for the assassination in Pune in August 1986 of a former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Arun Vaidya [ see p. 35249 ] . |
| 18 | These are the Comyns and the Bruces who can both reckon amongst their members males of the royal blood , for each claim the throne by descent from David , Earl of Huntingdon , great-uncle of Alexander III and grandson of a former king . |
| 19 | In many cases the professional certainties of a former generation of town planners were overridden by strident political voices and the activity fell increasingly into some disrepute . |
| 20 | The sequence of eighth-century Northumbrian annals is lost after 801 but the sparse fragments of a former continuation which are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle terminate in 806 with a note of the expulsion of King Eardwulf ( ASC D , s.a. 806 ) . |
| 21 | The ‘ community ’ or comprehensive-type schools which are beginning to replace vocational and local church schools have a more religious flavour , as they may include the interests of a former convent , which the new school is in part replacing , a former vocational school , and possibly a former diocesan boys ' school as well . |
| 22 | But the death was a ‘ terrible blow ’ , as he said , in the affection and gratitude of a former disciple . |
| 23 | Thoughts on the monarchy invariably turn on the constitutional insights of a former editor of The Economist , Walter Bagehot , after whom this column is named . |
| 24 | The latter , a son of a former Headmaster of The School for the Deaf in Liverpool was a world-famous consultant psychiatrist specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of deaf patients . |
| 25 | Sheer cliffs , 300–400 feet high , defend the island , relenting only where a breach permits landings to be made at a small beach ; nearby an ancient graveyard and ruined crofts are relics of a former occupation . |
| 26 | His father actively supported the parliamentarian cause in the English civil war but John Duncombe 's sympathies were Royalist and his marriage , on 12 July 1646 , to Elizabeth , daughter of a former chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , Sir Humphrey May [ q.v. ] , allied him to one of the Stuarts ' most loyal families of servants . |
| 27 | Doctors are racing against time to try to save the life of a former nurse from South Oxfordshire who desperately needs a lung transplant . |
| 28 | Doctors are racing against time to save the life of a former nurse from south Oxfordshire who desperately needs a lung transplant . |
| 29 | The non-governmental Straits Exchange Foundation ( SEF ) on Jan. 5 protested over the detention in China of a former mainland air force pilot , Lee Hsien-pin , who had defected to Taiwan in 1965 . |
| 30 | And to top it all off there were the dispiriting revelations that Liverpool 's manager Graeme Souness , had not only phoned his congratulations through to John Major from his private hospital bed , but also , allegedly for mega-bucks , allowed himself to appear on the front of the Sun on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster with his tongue down the throat of a former TV hostess . |