Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a minute the first French skirmishers ran into sight . |
| 2 | After a week the first cracks were appearing within the group and between the group and its organisers . |
| 3 | Following the birth of a child the next step after breast-feeding is school fees planning . |
| 4 | Everyone forms some sort of impression of a person the first time that they meet . |
| 5 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 6 | They 're up like a lark the next morning . |
| 7 | Terrifically glad if you could bear to look in for a drink the next time you 're in town . |
| 8 | Two of Battyburns goals were scored in identical moves — the sign of a poor defensive team — I though for a minute the second goal was a replay of the first : -[ . |
| 9 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 10 | After practising this for a while the next stage was to get the wing overhead . |
| 11 | There was one day when I was in Dunedin preparing a preview for a match the next day and was told that late in the afternoon Otago would be training at Carisbrook and I might there obtain their team for the morrow . |
| 12 | His chief undertaking , Fowey Consols , became for a time the second largest producer in Cornwall . |
| 13 | Robert Bryan put a shotgun to the neck of poor loser Matthew Hay during a quarrel the next morning . |
| 14 | As a result a third , lower tier to the court system , the police courts , was added in 1843 . |
| 15 | The second of these choices was the one that most feminists adopted , and as a result the next decade was marked by an increasing self-confidence on the part of feminists about their place in philosophy . |
| 16 | Speaking on BBC TV 's Election Call programme , he said he could not provide ‘ an in-all-circumstances ’ undertaking on how his party would react , saying that he was being asked ‘ how I would play as a batsman the third ball in the fourth over after next . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It was really hard , because as a rule the first one you do is the one you 'll really believe in . |
| 18 | With a shriek the last beams of the roof collapsed and pitched down . |
| 19 | She woke with a start the next morning , confused and disorientated . |
| 20 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 21 | By the time I returned from Australia , the KH965 had been launched by Brother , Manchester and within a fortnight the first dealer tuition was taking place . |
| 22 | It is as follows : that the decision to turn off a ventilator is , in fact , a decision to terminate the life of a patient or to remove from a patient the last thread by which he held on to life . |
| 23 | In the first case , either interpretation is fully acceptable — it can be either Farjeon or his style of undressing which has the quality of being clumsy ; and quite possibly the existence and use of such sentences provide the interpretative syntactic basis for the type which follows it , which therefore represents in a sense a second order of syntactic patterning . |
| 24 | This was in a sense the first of the family of rare or inert gases to be discovered ; but in chemistry the discovery of an element requires also its isolation , and this did not happen until 1895 , when William Ramsay was in the process of finding the whole group of these gases . |
| 25 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 26 | It is worth stressing that Hume 's argument does not attempt to derive a sceptical conclusion from the fact that I might be wrong ( as in a way the first argument does ) nor from the fact that I have been wrong ( as the second argument does ) . |
| 27 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 28 | They were shooting in a hospital the next day . |
| 29 | He never in fact produced the list ( which in a speech the next day had been mysteriously reduced to 57 ) but his smear tactics worked in an atmosphere of fear . |
| 30 | One member of the 4-Skins , protesting his innocence of any B.M/N.F involvement to a journalist the next day , told a story which under less dire circumstances could rival the best of Buster Keaton in terms of pathos , slapstick and deadpan gallows humour . |