Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had her after a 10-year break the boys , Kenneth , Neil and Carl , are 21 , 18 and 16 . |
| 2 | We had her after a 10-year break the boys , Kenneth , Neil and Carl , are 21 , 18 and 16 . |
| 3 | TWO women were taken to hospital yesterday after a crash involving a bus and a car . |
| 4 | CHANGES to the law on damages in Scotland have been given the Royal Assent after a campaign to help the families of workers dying from asbestos-related diseases . |
| 5 | After a competition to create a centre-piece for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 , Eiffel 's design was selected in the face of intense opposition from Pierre-Emmanuel Tirard , then Prime Minister , Charles Garnier , architect of the Opera , the composer Gounod , writers Leconte de Lisle and Guy de Maupassant ( the last claimed to be so upset by it that he fled France ) , and more than 40 other national figures . |
| 6 | The radicals were widely expected to lose seats after a committee judging the suitability of candidates prevented about 1,000 of the 3,000 hopefuls from taking part , including several well-known radicals . |
| 7 | Some — like that of Ryno the medic , exhausted and saddened after a struggle to save the life of a fellow constable — show how very young most men are when they are caught up in armed conflicts . |
| 8 | A study among geriatric patients at St George 's Hospital , London , found a mean ‘ half-life ’ for Opren of 101 hours , compared with an average for normal patients of 30–35 hours After a 43-day delay the department replied . |
| 9 | So after Doctor Who Carole Ann Ford deliberately immersed herself in theatrical parts to free herself from the stigma of Television , emerging only after a year to play the radically different role of a prostitute in ITV 's new Public Eye series . |
| 10 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 11 | Mercer came back after a while to collect the Unwins and the Youngs , and the general jollifications everywhere wore on without any alarms . |
| 12 | Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life . |
| 13 | I decided therefore to occupy myself with some further tasks in the billiard room , assuming she would after a while see the ludicrousness of her position and leave . |
| 14 | She was 15 at the time of the wedding , and was to present him with seven children , among them the future Charles I. She also presented him with an embarrassing situation by deciding after a while to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 15 | Flashman is now the subject of a police enquiry as a result of a complaint by Sun photographer Paul Welford after a scuffle following the Football League hearing at a West End hotel on Monday . |
| 16 | Industry Minister Andrzej Zawislak resigned on July 29 after a decision to merge the trade and industry ministries . |
| 17 | The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership . |
| 18 | The UK Cross-Country Commission has been severely snubbed by the British Amateur Athletic Board , after a decision to overrule the controversial rescheduling of the World Cross-Country Championship Trial Meeting . |
| 19 | a street in the City of London , originally so called after a shop bearing the sign of an axe , and the Church of St Mary , demolished prior to 1880 . |
| 20 | STORE boss Roger Price was fuming after a paper printed a Christmas ad telling his customers : ‘ Stuff your kids . ’ |
| 21 | There was nothing sinister about this change — he had simply reverted to the name he was born under after a search to find the identity of his real parents . |
| 22 | After a three-week hearing the court found in favour of Lee and ordered the Far Eastern Economic Review to pay damages of S$230,000 . |
| 23 | Only after a time do the principles on which the family is based — private property and slavery — come into conflict with the community and its commonality ; this occurs only when the family begins to move into the political domain . |
| 24 | Murray 's Just Jeremy , on which she led the dressage section from Thomson by less than half a point , has only recently returned to competition following a lengthy lay-off after an operation to cure a breathing problem . |
| 25 | Last month the Queen Mother spent several days in an Aberdeen hospital after an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat . |
| 26 | Having applied his newspaper-research skills to hunting out pre–1800 references to the fame , he hankers after an opportunity to produce a researched , scholarly history of the game as a whole : ‘ There has n't been a proper history since Rowland Bowen 's , and a great deal has been discovered since then . |
| 27 | But , to judge from the unsureness of their gait , they must have lost their sea legs somewhere between Sheffield and Colchester , perhaps after an incident involving a couple of bottles of Drambuie . |
| 28 | Dr Barney Williams , 52 , left Dr William Henry , 48 , needing hospital treatment after an incident involving a dance poster in the surgery in Marshfield Road , Chippenham , Wilts . |
| 29 | And true enough , after an afternoon weaving a poem back on to the frayed ends of a loom of broken rhymes , I had leapt up and punched the air with determination . |
| 30 | A 47-year-old man died after an accident involving a 17-ton loading shovel at the Redland Aggregates site at Barham . |