Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes work on both reins Skipper was going forward , with his brain between his ears . |
| 2 | After a few minutes Woodruffe said : ‘ You 've got your foot on the brake , Dudley . ’ |
| 3 | After a few minutes Crabb returned to the jetty for some extra weights to overcome his buoyancy and , having fitted these to his satisfaction , set off for the Russian cruiser . |
| 4 | After a few minutes Rose handed the paper back to him . |
| 5 | After a few minutes Jack groped for the bedside table . |
| 6 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 7 | After a few minutes Dieter 's car overtook them ; when they arrived at the auberge , it was parked in the shadows a short distance away with two dim shapes close together in the front seats . |
| 8 | After a few minutes Wednesday arrived with about ten boys , Mr Morraine and Matron . |
| 9 | After a few days Anne decided to go back to school . |
| 10 | But after a few days Mcduff lost interest . |
| 11 | In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges ; after a few days resistance Aimar 's citadel capitulated . |
| 12 | But after a few days Clare began to worry . |
| 13 | It was a little short , but she managed quite well after a few practice steps . |
| 14 | After a few seconds Sandison said : ‘ Tell me about the Scots . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Please , Dana , do as I ask ; it 's important , ’ Claudia pleaded , and something in her manner must have got across , for after a few seconds Dana allowed herself to be led towards the café . |
| 16 | erm but after a few months dad gave it up cos it was erm too wet and that where weeds could grow easily |
| 17 | They turned left down a road and after a few paces Tom opened another gate into the field next to the graveyard . |
| 18 | I had to eventually sort it out after a few sorta threats off the bank . |
| 19 | After a few weeks newspapers lifted their ban on match reports , and while the war was waged on the front page , the struggle for League points gathered pace on the back . |
| 20 | A court in Pune ( Maharashtra ) on Oct. 24 convicted and sentenced to death two militant Sikh separatists , Harjinda Singh and Sukhdev Singh , for the assassination in Pune in August 1986 of a former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Arun Vaidya [ see p. 35249 ] . |
| 21 | The terrified youngster — daughter of a former Soho club owner — was grabbed at gunpoint in Marbella three years before Mellor 's freebie break there with PLO chief 's daughter Mona Bauwens . |
| 22 | On May 28 , 1990 , his trial , the first of a former Pasok minister , began . |
| 23 | Cairns hit two fours and a six in his forthright 42 , while Harris , like his partner the son of a former NZ Test player , stayed 73 balls , hitting a solitary four . |
| 24 | The non-governmental Straits Exchange Foundation ( SEF ) on Jan. 5 protested over the detention in China of a former mainland air force pilot , Lee Hsien-pin , who had defected to Taiwan in 1965 . |
| 25 | And to top it all off there were the dispiriting revelations that Liverpool 's manager Graeme Souness , had not only phoned his congratulations through to John Major from his private hospital bed , but also , allegedly for mega-bucks , allowed himself to appear on the front of the Sun on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster with his tongue down the throat of a former TV hostess . |
| 26 | At Kelston , north-west of the village centre , the buildings of a former brass mill remain , with the distinctive stone tapering chimneys of annealing furnaces beside the River Avon . |
| 27 | JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth . |
| 28 | As Coleman discovered later , it was not uncommon for the Justice Department to leave a case dangling over the head of a former government employee whom it wished to intimidate . |
| 29 | Finally , it was argued that the Special Commissioner had erred in ruling that the evidence of a former deputy head of the Revenue 's Enquiry Branch was inadmissible . |
| 30 | Particular anger was expressed by Western delegates over the appointment of a former deputy director of Soviet State Radio and Television , Henrikh Juskevicius , to the post of deputy director-general in charge of communications and information . |