Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Ye ken , ye walk up tae a door and it opens of its ain accord .
2 ‘ Come indoors fer a minute an' I 'll tell yer .
3 It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’
4 Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions .
5 HEALTH chiefs have launched an international hunt for a frail anorexic schoolgirl after a warning that she could die unless she receives urgent treatment .
6 Actually , we decided after a bit that there was nothing very sinister about Sun , but that he is just an auxiliary comrade who helps to keep tabs on us , makes sure we do n't get lost in the crowd , etc .
7 This is usual for the first week after a strike but it would not surprise me if things began to happen later in the week .
8 A breed society had been established in 1910 ; the original 1912 herdbook lapsed after a decade because there was so much crossing with larger breeds , but it was revived in 1982 .
9 Even on the Olympic Division 11 board , the water start is used in strong winds after a fall since it is so much quicker .
10 She had never found any place in the world intimidating when she was after a story and she had the ability to ferret out facts , an uncanny instinct for the truth .
11 No sooner had Franz Pfeffer returned home to Germany after a stint as his country 's ambassador to France , than he was sent back again .
12 ‘ Oh yes , ’ she said , ‘ I do sometimes , especially after a day like I 've had .
13 Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see .
14 But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch .
15 And yet , it just clicked after a while that she is , yes I do n't know , we became the best of friends .
16 as much as anything , but it 's only cos you 're writing a letter , and you say oh hello you writing a letter to mum , he says no I killed her to come here , you do n't put your foot in it a big way , but after a while because you know nobody there is nice it really makes a lot of difference people
17 Er , he did after a while because there just are n't that many people who run round the N E C who look me in July , but erm , there were conventions earlier in the year , but it , it , you know , I got , actually a very reasonable size of contract out of this man , from that thirty second note I made on the calendar .
18 I turned after a while and they were still wistfully standing there .
19 It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving .
20 ‘ He was n't too enthralled at first but he listened after a while and I 've left him thinking about it .
21 his feet hurt after a while and his muscles ached , as though they were not dancing but running , pounding through a strange , noisy jostling forest of soft , moving trees in darkness ; just the two of them .
22 Endill 's hand felt sore after a while and he wanted to ask why he would need words like ‘ pumpernickle ’ and ‘ ourang-outang ’ but thought on his first day too many questions might lead to trouble .
23 I have seen them leaving Stronsay after a dance and you would still have heard them singing when they reached Papay .
24 The things she had heard Jack say after a favourite that he had carefully arranged to get well stuffed , as he put it , promptly went and won .
25 Do n't forget that it 's possible to start breastfeeding again after a pause if you want to .
26 We can be reasonably sure after a month that they are stranded there .
27 She and her two children were freed by Saddam after a month and her husband three months later .
28 You take the bag off , off it after a month or something .
29 ‘ I got out of breath drying myself after a bath and I realised I was a bit overweight , ’ said Mervin , who now tips the scales at just over eight stones !
30 The old man was paralysed now after a stroke and she supposed that she ought to feel sorry for him lying there in his hospital bed , useless as a felled tree , mouth slavering , only the angry eyes moving in impotent fury from face to watching face .
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