Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a spell at Tie Rack , she found her own niche in socks . |
| 2 | After a spell with Queen of the South , Gallacher moved to Airdrionians to become a vital part of the club 's famous cup-winning team of 1924 . |
| 3 | After a spell of squadron service the aircraft was transferred to the Air Force Academy . |
| 4 | Cameron talked with Minerva , who was being magnanimously tolerant of her husband 's much-publicised affair with Nina Kenyon , and with Anne , who was well into the tertiary stage of her fourth marriage ( to Didier Bishopric , a society restaurateur ) and just back from the Betty Ford clinic after a spell of amphetamine dependency . |
| 5 | In his book on Maxwell , Joe Haines describes how Maxwell 's normally imperturbable secretary burst into tears after a spell of work when he had been even more demanding than usual . |
| 6 | General manager of Wolfgang Nitschke who returns to London after a spell as area director for New York and Chicago . |
| 7 | After a spell in teaching , she joined the Irish Times ; five years later , in 1973 , she was offered a job in the paper 's office in London , where she met her husband , writer Gordon Snell . |
| 8 | Then , after a spell in prison , I took charge of a lodging house called La America . |
| 9 | But a stroke left him paralysed , and after a spell in hospital he moved in with his daughter and son-in-law . |
| 10 | Share the tension and drama as the last Lancaster bomber is ‘ talked down ’ to safety after a raid over enemy territory . |
| 11 | Share the tension and the drama as the last Lancaster is ‘ talked down ’ to safety after a raid over enemy territory . |
| 12 | Bootle FC chairman Frank Doran told magistrates the adverts had initially been taken down after a warning from council inspectors . |
| 13 | I have ignored such central and prestigious characters in the drama is professor Wold of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , who is seeking to perfect a cheap , early diagnostic test for trisomy 21 during pregnancy on the interesting grounds that it costs £500,000 ( not accounting for inflation ) to look after a person with trisomy 21 for life . |
| 14 | There have been artists , generally of the smacked-out bedsitter blues variety , who lost their tragic muse after a bit of success . |
| 15 | His back was cured within a couple of weeks — not , it turns out , as a result of the acupuncture but after a bit of dancing while on holiday . |
| 16 | He would hand over the old man 's baccy for the week and a few sweeties then , after a bit of chat , he was away . ’ |
| 17 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 18 | After a bit of practice , ‘ accentuating the positive ’ will seem less contrived |
| 19 | I was very very pleased to see that a lot of you have tried to do your join up handwriting after a bit of practice we 'd had and it had come out really really nicely , well done . |
| 20 | I found Malpass 's pistol and torch behind the table and after a bit of contortion I managed to stuff them into my jacket pockets . |
| 21 | He could n't think why it had n't occurred to him earlier , as he marched briskly ( after a bit of trouble with the door latch ) out of the pub . |
| 22 | In Scandinavia , with their mixed economies , money is always available , after a bit of persuasion , from both local and central government . |
| 23 | My legs get all tingly after a bit on account of how I 'm sitting , but I do n't move . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , how 's it going ? ’ said Alex , after a teaspoon of froth . |
| 25 | Ken told him that after a performance of Call My Bluff a woman approached him and asked , ‘ Any chance of a fuck ? ’ |
| 26 | Among the restaurants is the Savini , Milan 's most prestigious , where opera-goers congregate after a performance to while away the rest of the evening in expensive surroundings . |
| 27 | His luck ran out in the early hours of March 4th when French Customs controls identified Sea Rover homing in towards French waters at Ushant after a passage to North Africa for another cargo . |
| 28 | After a barrage of love letters and phone calls , Gless was horrified to discover that the woman had been living under the floorboards of her house for at least six weeks . |
| 29 | After a bottle of wine , Flora talked about her second divorce , continuing the next instalment of the afternoon serial . |
| 30 | However , after a trip by taxi along the streets , following the line where possible , I did find that the best location , which showed the monoline to advantage , was at the end of the walkway to Pyrmont Bridge , just above the National Maritime Museum . |