Example sentences of "again [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some years later he met Mr Parkinson again during a campaign meeting for the Penrith and Borders constituency .
2 Normally , climbers produce larger flowers than ramblers , and quite often several times again during a season — hence the description ‘ repeat ’ flowering .
3 In September the Eliots were in Scarborough , again for a fortnight , but on his return he contracted Asiatic influenza .
4 Second , Corinth was sacked by Lucius Mummius in 146 BC with Roman thoroughness , not to rise again for a century .
5 Then it 's time to slide into bed for a few hours ' sleep , to be woken once again for a patrol that will signal the start of a new day .
6 We less poetic mortals sat for a while in the afternoon sunlight and shadow , then we turned down the path again for a pot of tea and a scone for myself and Eddy and a biscuit for Bill before we began the road walk back to the car .
7 Things continued to go Hearts ' way and a Crabbe cross let Ian Ferguson in again for a back-header that Fridge just managed to collect under the bar .
8 He was now largely permitted to roam the grounds in freedom , and he came gambolling up to greet Theda with a bark , and then went off exploring again , just keeping the ladies in sight , and returning now and again for a pat or an encouraging word .
9 My negotiations were successful and the matter was peacefully concluded by an apology and a generous payment of damages , destined once again for a charity .
10 She could n't do that again for a while , she had to be on duty over Christmas as it was .
11 I watched the lights again for a while .
12 I wo n't mention it again for a while . ’
13 ‘ Sit down again for a while . ’
14 If she were really honest , she did n't want to run the risk of seeing Niall again for a while , not socially at any rate .
15 ‘ I used to visit it everyday and it 's just so hard to know I wo n't see it again for a while .
16 I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are .
17 They must try again and again for a compromise that is fair and honourable .
18 It was a week before he even suggested they get together again for a drink , and that was lunchtime on Friday , at the end of his second week .
19 ‘ Then knock the lid down so that the rough edges are holding the lid in place , so to speak , and leave it again for a bit .
20 sort of actually stops , and then it 's going very slowly again for a bit , and then what happens here ?
21 Cos in the morning they get the sun from that direction , then they do n't see the sun again for a bit and then it turns up suddenly from over there .
22 He was widely believed to have been interned in a labour camp in the mid-1930s ( a fate shared by the greater part of the clergy ) , and again for a year immediately after the Second World War , following military service .
23 He was also ordered to forfeit £150 from a previous binding over and bound over again for a year in the sum of £250 .
24 In 1953 , some 14 per cent still voiced their willingness to vote again for a man such as Hitler .
25 In 1968 , six per cent of the West German population ( compared with four per cent in 1965 and 1967 ) reported their willingness to vote again for a man such as Hitler .
26 And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ?
27 I could tell he was keen from the fact that he did n't mention it again for a couple of years .
28 — Sit down again for a minute .
29 Cover again for a minute or so , then add the soured cream and beat the potatoes well .
30 ‘ Just sit you down again for a minute , lassie .
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