Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , nuffink 's gon na 'appen fer a long while yet so the owners are lettin' the place out fer rent . |
| 2 | And after a major operation there he was wagging his tail and |
| 3 | Alex Graham brought Armagh back into the match at 20-18 with a try in the corner after a clever kick ahead by James Scott . |
| 4 | Alternatively the acquiror may wish to have a specific retention out of the consideration only to be released after a specific timeframe once all identified pre-contract trade debtors have been collected ) . |
| 5 | Most new MPs enter the Commons in their thirties and forties ; there are fewer very young politicians , and — despite all the blather about the ‘ party of enterprise ’ — fewer going into politics in their fifties , after a successful career elsewhere . |
| 6 | It is often helpful for mothers to start offering the breast only after a solid feed so that the child is already quite full . |
| 7 | ‘ No , we 're OK ’ , he said , after a hasty glance outside . |
| 8 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 9 | Overnight , as passengers slept soundly in their cabins after a long day ashore , or the more hardy danced and gave in to the temptations of the midnight buffet , the Ocean Empress had weighed anchor and begun to move south again , until , shortly after dawn , the silence of the engines pronounced her arrival in Tenerife off the west coast of Africa . |
| 10 | Other reasons for returning after a long period away include : |
| 11 | President Vieira on Nov. 6 returned abruptly after a long period abroad , during which time he had received medical treatment and visited the United States and Taiwan . |
| 12 | In 1942 , after a long preamble once again accusing the government of ‘ favouritism ’ towards the Masai , he asked in the Legislative Council if a thousand square miles of Masailand could be set aside for ‘ settlement of fighting services personnel , when their job of destroying our foul enemies , who would make slaves of the Masai , is completed ’ . |
| 13 | The hammock was the best hole in the world after a rough night ashore , bar none ! |
| 14 | PUBLICANS said they had made progress in a campaign against big rent rises after a stormy meeting yesterday . |
| 15 | The ruling was made by Family Division judge Mrs Justice Booth after a private hearing yesterday . |
| 16 | Félicie waited with him for news of the birth , and during the anxious time Modi asked her for advice , knowing that Jeanne was too preoccupied in looking after him and coping with her mother 's often unhelpful interference to look after a new baby alone . |
| 17 | After a narrow escape straight from the start of the second half , when Carpenter screwed the ball wide from a good position , Farnham 's re-organised side played with growing authority . |
| 18 | Levein was ruled out of the World Cup match after a medical check yesterday , leaving manager Andy Roxburgh with defensive problems following the loss of Richard Gough from his original pool . |
| 19 | Donald Hebb , the Canadian psychologist , reported : A day in the woods or a day-long car trip after a sedentary winter sometimes has an extraordinarily vivid aftereffect . |
| 20 | The Matanzimas were forced out after a military coup nearly two years ago . |
| 21 | THE film came about after a 14-year gap simply because Peter and Gerald were asked — by former Monty Python producer John Goldstone . |
| 22 | The former Suite Centre in Sussex Street , Middlesbrough , was left a death-trap after a fierce blaze early yesterday . |
| 23 | John Henry was retired in July 1985 after a racing career over eight seasons which made him one of the most popular horses ever to run in the USA . |
| 24 | A few yards from the exit of Upper Long Churn Cave and at a lower level is the entrance to Lower Long Churn Cave ; this may also be safely explored , the gloom being diffused by daylight entering a fissure in the roof , to the point where the stream sinking in Upper Long Churn Cave enters in a waterfall after a short journey underground . |
| 25 | Higham and Jones have argued , on the sole evidence of internal timber buildings , that another fort was constructed after a short interval early in the second century , and that it survived until it was demolished in the late second century ; no contemporary fortifications for it have yet been recorded . |
| 26 | R v Secretary of State for Home Department , Ex parte Kuku ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls and Staughton LJJ ) ; 28 Sept 1989 It is highly desirable that foreign nationals to whom r 10 of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 169 applies should not only by warned by the Home Office of the necessity under s 3(4) of the Immigration Act 1971 of obtaining a visa if seeking re-entry to the UK after a short visit abroad , but that that warning should take the form of a document attached to the foreign national 's passport , so there is no question of any misapprehension . |
| 27 | ‘ I get homesick all the time , ’ she said after a short visit home to see her brother Lawrence , a joiner in Derry . |
| 28 | After a brief stay there , we move south-west into the ubiquitous rural ocean until we arrive at a remarkable experimental settlement just off the main road between Kharkov and Poltava . |
| 29 | ‘ She mixes wi' a different class now , but she 's still one of us . ’ |
| 30 | After the first few devastating out-of-loves , she was warily certain that there would always be another goddess ; the old idol became a fond memory , like a photo of a dear friend long absent . |