Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes work on both reins Skipper was going forward , with his brain between his ears . |
| 2 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 3 | In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges ; after a few days resistance Aimar 's citadel capitulated . |
| 4 | erm but after a few months dad gave it up cos it was erm too wet and that where weeds could grow easily |
| 5 | The charges follow the death of 21 year old student , Henry Skelton after an all night drink and drugs party on December 2nd . |
| 6 | Rangers and Hearts fought out a two-two draw at Tynecastle last night , a match played on a pitch almost waterlogged after an all day downpour . |
| 7 | A court in Pune ( Maharashtra ) on Oct. 24 convicted and sentenced to death two militant Sikh separatists , Harjinda Singh and Sukhdev Singh , for the assassination in Pune in August 1986 of a former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Arun Vaidya [ see p. 35249 ] . |
| 8 | The terrified youngster — daughter of a former Soho club owner — was grabbed at gunpoint in Marbella three years before Mellor 's freebie break there with PLO chief 's daughter Mona Bauwens . |
| 9 | On May 28 , 1990 , his trial , the first of a former Pasok minister , began . |
| 10 | Cairns hit two fours and a six in his forthright 42 , while Harris , like his partner the son of a former NZ Test player , stayed 73 balls , hitting a solitary four . |
| 11 | The non-governmental Straits Exchange Foundation ( SEF ) on Jan. 5 protested over the detention in China of a former mainland air force pilot , Lee Hsien-pin , who had defected to Taiwan in 1965 . |
| 12 | And to top it all off there were the dispiriting revelations that Liverpool 's manager Graeme Souness , had not only phoned his congratulations through to John Major from his private hospital bed , but also , allegedly for mega-bucks , allowed himself to appear on the front of the Sun on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster with his tongue down the throat of a former TV hostess . |
| 13 | At Kelston , north-west of the village centre , the buildings of a former brass mill remain , with the distinctive stone tapering chimneys of annealing furnaces beside the River Avon . |
| 14 | JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth . |
| 15 | As Coleman discovered later , it was not uncommon for the Justice Department to leave a case dangling over the head of a former government employee whom it wished to intimidate . |
| 16 | Finally , it was argued that the Special Commissioner had erred in ruling that the evidence of a former deputy head of the Revenue 's Enquiry Branch was inadmissible . |
| 17 | Particular anger was expressed by Western delegates over the appointment of a former deputy director of Soviet State Radio and Television , Henrikh Juskevicius , to the post of deputy director-general in charge of communications and information . |
| 18 | As it was tabled on 17 December , has the Leader of the House had time to reflect on early-day motion 424 in the name of a former Law Officer , a former Home Secretary , myself and 41 colleagues ? |
| 19 | The inquest heard that on 30 August , 1988 , the security forces had become aware of a threat to the life of a former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier , and the shoot-out had been a result of the actions taken by the security forces because of the threat . |
| 20 | The series of legal actions initiated by the Government to suppress publication of the memoirs of a former intelligence agent , Peter Wright , indicates the lengths to which the Government will go to ensure confidentiality . |
| 21 | Plans to turn the site of a former explosives factory at Annan , Dumfriesshire , into Scotland 's top rallying centre outside Ingliston were put forward yesterday by the Wigton Motor Club which is based in Cumbria . |
| 22 | PLANS to turn the site of a former explosives factory at Annan , Dumfriesshire , into Scotland 's top rallying centre were put forward yesterday by the 300-strong Wigton Motor Club which is based a few miles over the Border in Cumbria . |
| 23 | A court order avoids the repayment of the discount on the transfer of a former council house ( see further this chapter ) and it is only by court order ( with the agreement of the parties ) that future claims against the estate of one party to the former marriage can be barred out ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 24 | Mr Leckey said the shoot-out in which the IRA men died was a result of actions by the security forces over a threat to the life of a former UDR soldier in August 1988 . |
| 25 | With the methodical professionalism of a former detective sergeant with 20 years ' experience in London 's Metropolitan police , Jones had made a full note of a conversation in which Connelly asked , ‘ Have you considered a bag switch at Frankfurt ? ’ |
| 26 | The furniture factories and timber yards in and around High Wycombe are the modern industrial outcome of a former woodland craft of the Chiltern beechwoods , when independent workers commonly known as ‘ chair-bodgers ’ made chair-legs , stools , tent pegs and spokes for wagon wheels , among other things . |
| 27 | He strode into cafes , schools and churches to meet and greet by name — all with the relentless energy of a former Balkans decathlon champion . |
| 28 | A mistrial was declared on Aug. 26 in the trial of a former CIA deputy director of covert operations , Clair George . |
| 29 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
| 30 | ft. conversion of a former paint factory into managed offices and workshops . |