Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | After a spell at the rehabilitation centre , Guy 's parents realized it was a mistake , and tried to have him transferred to a specialist stroke rehabilitation centre in London , even though this was a long way from home . |
2 | The former Middlesbrough reserve bounced back to form after a spell on the sidelines by hammering a hat-trick in the 6–1 win over Harrogate Town on Tuesday . |
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 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
8 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared yesterday after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
9 | Without it , looking after a child during the day would mean some of them having to give up their studies . |
10 | They can actually go and chase after a person outside the station if if that is their their wish and at the moment that is erm that will continue to be the case . |
11 | Named after a person by the name of Guffbry it is initially used to diagnosed what ? |
12 | A Co Armagh shop was robbed of £25,000 worth of goods this week — days after a copy-cat-raid at the same shop failed . |
13 | George 's last years were spent in Paris , the tedium of exile relieved by the pleasures of music ; he died there suddenly 12 June 1878 , after a drive through the Bois de Boulogne . |
14 | After a run through the Adjutant 's forecast of events , revealing yet two more VIPs visiting the battalion later in the month , the morning prayers change tack . |
15 | After a consideration of the theories , the case law from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be examined . |
16 | My own views as to the proper limits of jurisdictional control will be spelt out after a consideration of the case law . |
17 | So I do n't speak really as a committed fox hunt or anti fox hunter er I speak erm , after a consideration of the matter er that that what have at issue here is er , the , the right of the tenant . |
18 | This was obviously taken , given the six soloists present , after a performance of the St Matthew Passion , not Messiah as stated . |
19 | Dalkammoni was one of 16 PFLP-GC suspects arrested in Frankfurt and Neuss by West German federal criminal investigation office ( BKA ) on Oct. 26 , 1988 ( after a tip-off by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad ) . |
20 | The 28-year-old man had entered Switzerland in April 1987 and been arrested in May 1990 after a tip-off by the West German intelligence services . |
21 | This is just next door to his old address at No 76 , where he managed to evade a High Court Deputy Tipstaff last week after a tip-off from the landlord , apparently by climbing through a back window and shinning down a drainpipe . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
24 | The Society 's first winner of the new season was the irrepressible Robbie Kennelly ( 9 ) , he played the front nine in a modest 16pts after a blank at the ninth despite another blank at the tenth Robbie covered the last eight holes in a blistering 22pts with birdies at 11 and 7 for a grand total of 38pts . |
25 | Gerard had returned to his home in the Catholic area off North Queen Street after a trip to the local swimming baths with friends . |
26 | Steve Tomalin says : I started last year after a trip to the Alps . |
27 | After a trip up the coast to Galle for a reception , motorcade and exhibition game against a district XVIII , Ebbsworth began to show why it was appropriate he was born in Muswellbrook by shelling locals with five sixes and 14 fours . |
28 | In one case a child was removed from her mother after a fracture at the age of 18 months . |
29 | Now in its second year , National Music Day was born after a conversation between the then Arts Minister Tim Renton and Rolling Stone Mick Jagger . |
30 | Opinion polls in Denmark suggested that those planning to vote Yes in the referendum on the Maastricht treaty were extending their lead again after a narrowing of the gap . |