Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a guy , girls do not come after you like a guy would come after a girl in a band . |
| 2 | KAMOZE RETURNS after a spell in a Jamaican jail , choosing a slightly rougher version of ‘ Hot Milk ’ than Sly & Robbie 's for this typically oblique lyric about his impending dominance . |
| 3 | Comfort is good , oily hands do n't slip easily and handles withstood a belting after a spell in the freezer . |
| 4 | After a spell in the army , he developed this into a business taking second-rate acts to provincial Soviet cities . |
| 5 | The gibbering hippies and spaced-out fatsoes who go there , they come back looking all clean and sane and fine , after a spell in the war , in the Nam , in what they call the shit . |
| 6 | After a spell in the sauna I had to make a choice . |
| 7 | It 's thought to be that of a man last seen in May after a fight in a pub . |
| 8 | I remember that when Philip and I first made our way through London to a shop which was depicted in an advertisement , in spite of the crowds on either hand all along our route , in spite of the full directions of our elders , we were as much elated by our achievement as if it had been an arduous discovery made after a journey in a desert . |
| 9 | The moon has set ( the warriors with Dulé are still gliding towards the Rebecca ; the sloop is growing broader , taller , blacker as they approach her ) , but the stars are burning in the dark blue distance , one of them sparkling emerald and ruby and sapphire as if shaking drops of water from itself after a bathe in the liquid of the sky . |
| 10 | Robin Knox-Johnson has recently been honoured at the Silk Cut Awards for his seamanship in navigating his yacht Suhali one way across the Atlantic with nothing more than an astrolabe , a cross-staff and a lot of skill , and then back without a mast , engine , radio or compass after a battering in a series of storms . |
| 11 | One of the best ways to keep your eyeshadow in place — even after a dip in the pool — is to use waterproof colours . |
| 12 | After a change in the partnership , Roberts , Jowling and Co produced cloth using ‘ thoroughly good machinery ’ , until their bankruptcy some time between 1906 and 1908 . |
| 13 | The bid comes after a change in the law , which was supposed to protect small breweries like Morland . |
| 14 | If there is still some latent state it will flare up after a dose in the centesimal potency . |
| 15 | About 1,000 BP employees in Glasgow evacuated their offices for two hours yesterday after a pipe in the chilling plant of an air conditioning system broke loose , releasing gas into the building . |
| 16 | He came back , after a decade in the Greek aero industry , to fill a hole in the market |
| 17 | The final realization of the New Depression , brought quietly into the world in May 1979 , with the unsuspecting British electorate as midwife and the Thatcher government as proud foster-parent ( the natural parents are holed up even now in the boardrooms of the multi-national corporations ) , coincided with rumblings of some significance from the separate continental plates of the fashion world : after a decade in the doldrums ‘ fashion ’ was born again and became a word once more in general use . |
| 18 | After a discussion in a staff meeting about the gifts of the Spirit , I remember one of our church planters announcing firmly that in the church he was planting he would forbid anyone to speak in tongues in public ! |
| 19 | On 12 June , after a feint in the direction of Tours , Richard and Philip suddenly swooped on Le Mans itself . |
| 20 | After a night in a shelter , very wet and depressed , Harry got out his maps and decided to try to cycle to Holland where patriots might help him . |
| 21 | On the first morning , after a night in a Lycée bed , they all went to a preliminary reception at the Hôtel de Ville : Clara went , politely willing , but when she got there she found that it was a gigantic , milling , stifling insult . |
| 22 | A big man , six foot four inches in his socks and a good fourteen stone , he always looked mildly untidy , and this morning , having worn the same clothes for a day and a half he looked like a football supporter after a night in the cells . |
| 23 | The refugees , expelled from the occupied territories last week , struggled to dry their clothes and bedding after a night in the snow . |
| 24 | TIPSY cyclist Jeffrey Maidment set off home after a night in the pub — and rode the wrong way down the M27 motorway . |
| 25 | marked the end of an era for five senior managers at who retired after a life-time in the maltings industry . |
| 26 | Then substitute Mark Snodden hit a goal after a mix-up in the Glentoran defence , but by then it was far too late . |
| 27 | LAURENT FIGNON , the double Tour de France winner , failed a dope test after a race in The Netherlands last month , the president of the French Cycling Federation , Francois Alaphilippe , confirmed last night . |
| 28 | It was disclosed a week ago that the Frenchman Laurent Fignon had failed a test after a race in The Netherlands last month . |
| 29 | For the first time , after a stint in the field , I think to myself ‘ Home sweet home ’ . |
| 30 | Toil , weather , human character and the quirks of animals are all graphically rendered , as well as the way in which newly-lifted potatoes glow ‘ like children 's shoulders after a day in the sun ’ , or in which the voice of a once-active young man now crippled by an accident becomes ‘ far-away , like a priest 's voice at the altar ’ . |