Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Coleridge and the Wordsworths met together once more after a separation of several weeks , it was in the knowledge that the Alfoxden year would soon be over . |
| 2 | Reaction after a scene like that is never easy . |
| 3 | After a spell of this , during which he gave no hint of moving , Rain decided to escape . |
| 4 | Brothers Ernest and Michael Robinson of Thompson Grove , Hartlepool , were bound over in the sum of £100 to keep the peace for six months after a fight with another man in York Road . |
| 5 | It was repaired under warranty but recently we have noticed the engine crackles very loudly when we slow down after a journey of several miles . |
| 6 | And if they look after a customer like that I mean they ca n't be faulty , can they ? |
| 7 | After a flypast of more modern military life it was down to the business of unveiling the plaque which commemorates the role of the Three Hundred and Ninetieth . |
| 8 | It is written after a trip of some five months to Pakistan , Northern India and Bangladesh . |
| 9 | This is the second of a set of two articles , written after a trip of some five months to Northern India , Pakistan and Bangladesh . |
| 10 | After a struggle like this , Tess would go to the fields or her room to cry . |
| 11 | It 's only natural they should cover their tracks after a setback like that . ’ |
| 12 | After a presentation by each of the major firms , Tomkins invited Arthur Andersen to become auditors , replacing Moores Rowland and the other auditors to group companies . |
| 13 | It 's hardly surprising after a climb like that . ’ |
| 14 | There wo n't be no baby after a fall like that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ After a fall like this , I can fall anywhere ! |
| 16 | This survey revealed that 4 per cent of adults reported that they looked after a dependant living in the same house ( i.e. they were co-resident carer ) with a further 10 per cent reporting that they looked after a dependant in another household ( i.e. they were an extra-resident carer ) . |
| 17 | Days on a dude ranch — particularly after a night like that one — tend to be restful . |
| 18 | Now , after a lull of several years , the boat people are heading for Australia again , this time from Cambodia . |
| 19 | His body always seems to bulk up after a day like this : he can see increased sponginess around his waist and chest . |
| 20 | The nomes sat in the gloom and wondered why on earth the humans , after a day like this , were giving them food . |
| 21 | After a year of this , he was then taken on by an Exeter dentist , a Mr. Groves , as a dental technician . |
| 22 | YOU might think that after a year like this , the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be older and wiser . |
| 23 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |
| 24 | ‘ You should n't drive , or ride a bicycle , after a wallop like that . |
| 25 | After a buffet for all the sales and administration staff , Lawrence Rudden , branch manager , performed the ribbon cutting ceremony . |
| 26 | I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting . |
| 27 | After a succession of these experiences their capacity to cry at all may even dry up , along with the relationship between themselves and their partner . |
| 28 | An increase of over 100 per cent in the price of maize meal on June 19 , as part of an economic recovery programme [ see pp. 37142-43 ; 37559 ] , provoked widespread discontent which culminated in violence after a demonstration by some 2,000 students in Lusaka on June 25 . |
| 29 | Some normalization of the security situation in Knin began on Aug. 21 , although only after a demonstration by several thousand residents had secured an undertaking from the local police chief that no disciplinary action would be taken against policemen who had sided with the insurgents . |
| 30 | After a month of this the doctors began to prepare a paper for ‘ The Lancet . ’ |