Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Henry broke away from the SACB after an incident which proved to him that apartheid was a two-way affair . |
| 2 | At the studio it becomes apparent that it will not be appropriate to being a class here , and after an hour we leave . |
| 3 | And on our way to the crocodile farm erm we past some beautiful countryside , and on the way back one of the two jeeps broke down and after an hour they decided we would have to leave it . |
| 4 | After an hour our man was still bludgeoning away . |
| 5 | But after an hour she had sewed enough and she felt a shift in the air . |
| 6 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 7 | After an hour he came to see me . |
| 8 | After an hour he went to see how she was doing , and to see if she needed anything . |
| 9 | After an hour I realized that if I did n't go after her , I 'd never be a man . ’ |
| 10 | A cry choked in her throat , and after an eternity he lifted his head , and stared down at her , his breath coming in harsh , roughened bursts . |
| 11 | This is a direct and primary liability , though after an assignment it is normally accompanied by rights of indemnity against the first assignee , and also , where there have been further assignments , against the assignee in whom the lease is for the time being vested . |
| 12 | Alcohol and phonecalls , after an attack she would not let herself be too sober or alone . |
| 13 | And 13-year-old Simon Dearden , who suffered serious burns after an aerial he was carrying touched an overhead power cable , is continuing to improve . |
| 14 | Four people were taken to hospital after an accident which left a car embedded in a house at the junction of Duke Street and Hart Lane in Hartlepool . |
| 15 | After an accident it is often found that maintenance work as well as repairs is necessary and it is quite natural that the Policyholder will want both carried out at the same time . |
| 16 | But his career ended after an inmate he was escorting , attacked him . |
| 17 | He would stand at his study window before the open curtains , his bespectacled eyes blinking into the night and his lips parted , but motionless , until after an interval they would shape a soundless ‘ Amen ’ . |
| 18 | After an interval he heard someone coming downstairs , bolts were drawn and the door was opened by a little man with freckles and vestiges of red hair . |
| 19 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 20 | ( Two years later , the tender of Samuel Foster Limited of Kempston for the nurses ' recreation room in the sum of £10,295 was accepted , despite an amendment which was put forward to postpone this project for three years , but which was lost on a show of hands . ) |
| 21 | Émile Chaillot displayed the deep impatience of a bureaucrat towards an artist who is not doing as he is bid . |
| 22 | He was solid , scientific , conscious in all his creating , learning his art from masters who were still in the youth of artistic development , his whole work shows a progress towards an ideal which the trammels of Gothic tradition never left him free to attain without a struggle . |
| 23 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 24 | Anderson 's history must work according to a rational principle , the dialectic , and be moving towards an end which will reveal and enact its meaning . |
| 25 | Training from starting points which are different towards an end which is uniform is not a unique aspect of voluntary partnership . |
| 26 | The continued liberty of the subject demands vigilance on the part of the judges in ensuring that no trial on a criminal charge , or appeal , bears any trace of being biased towards an outcome which the Government wants to see . |
| 27 | Pius X opened his pontificate ( 1903–14 ) amid an uproar which brought about the end of the Napoleonic concordat ( 1905 ) . |
| 28 | But it seems to misuse the notion of an error which is merely verbal . |
| 29 | Even when a picture is used , it is not complete , it takes the form of an icon which contains what the perceiver considers matters at the time . |
| 30 | However , it is only fair to comment that he did place the lives of two of his most valuable NCOs in jeopardy as well as that of an officer whom he could ill afford to lose . |