Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today Oxford Crown Court heard Walker was arrested after crashing into a police car , which blocked his path on a motorway slip road . |
| 2 | The boy was convicted of 71 offences , including 40 charges of burglary , after absconding from a children 's home . |
| 3 | Mr Schofield was arrested on Tuesday after walking into a police station in London . |
| 4 | A TOP Tory MP failed a breath test after driving through a police speed trap . |
| 5 | While class-based information does not exist for all those students who fail to gain work after graduating from a YTS , the conclusion about how the scheme operates in the case of black youths is probably equally valid with respect to white youths without qualifications coming from poor , unskilled , working-class homes . |
| 6 | I did n't expect this sort of driving from a three-times world champion . ’ |
| 7 | The thought of living in a mews cottage had been one of her daydreams , like living in a penthouse . |
| 8 | It remains perfectly acceptable for heterosexual women to enjoy the benefits of relaxing in an all-women atmosphere , even kissing and hugging with other women , while dropping Tom , Dick or Harry into conversation as convenient . |
| 9 | Never underestimate how terrified many people are when faced with the prospect of going into a solicitors ' office . |
| 10 | A first-year physics student told me that he had thought of transferring to an arts subject , maybe psychology , in the first few weeks , because : |
| 11 | quite a coincidence your experience of working in a children 's home |
| 12 | I 'd had enough of working in an accounts department , my family had uprooted themselves , and I thought it was time for a change . |
| 13 | RA4 papers have a total process time of 3 minutes at 38 degrees C. A range of processing times an temperatures for film and paper are listed in the instruction book . |
| 14 | This time Seitz , in an otherwise logical column , took Norman to task for going to a sports psychologist and suggested that Levi was ‘ probably ’ a better ‘ all-round ’ player . |
| 15 | LEADING UDA figures in West Belfast have gone into hiding following a police swoop on the organisation 's headquarters on the Shankill Road . |
| 16 | Under the Act , persons may be detained for questioning at a police station , without charge , for 36 hours on the police 's own authority , and for a further 60 hours subject to successful application for a magistrate 's order . |
| 17 | When agreement is reached close the deal quickly and immediately confirm the agreed terms in writing in a heads of agreement . |
| 18 | It is believed that the tongue plays an important part in acting as an antennae for vibrations , or that the snake is hypersensitive to earth vibrations . |
| 19 | But the general was already in hiding on a friends estate . |
| 20 | Lewis and the Western Isles in general have suffered greatly through the folly of successive governments in negotiating for a fisheries policy within the EEC on a national instead or a regional basis . |
| 21 | Mr Jones , unfortunately , declined to make his reasoning public before leaving with a police escort . |
| 22 | This would require far greater funding by the parties to Cites for an investigations and ivory unit . |
| 23 | At the local community level , Ms Urizio has devoted much of her time to working with a grassroots action group in an underprivileged area of Rome . |
| 24 | This list is not intended to be exhaustive , and certainly does not include areas where your nursing qualification is used indirectly , such as working as a children 's nanny or as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical or product manufacturer . |
| 25 | Lothian and Borders Police should begin by calling for a weapons amnesty similar to that underway in Strathclyde . |
| 26 | Traditionally this has been done by referring to a parts list and general assembly drawings , a long and tedious process . |