Example sentences of "but after a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper . |
| 2 | But after a four-month investigation , the State has charged that the methods used were abusive , worthy only of Cruella de Vil , Walt Disney 's Dalmatian-murdering villain . |
| 3 | He too listened closely to the arguments in the morning , but after a pub lunch with his staff , he did not return for the afternoon evidence . |
| 4 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 5 | ' The initial shock was distressing , but after a night 's sleep , nature 's chemistry had wrought its miracle and Belinda fell completely in love with her daughter . |
| 6 | But after a pause he went on to add , ‘ Except for kids , I hate going to post-mortems for kids ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 21 ) . |
| 7 | Now near the Dutch frontier , Harry felt it might be an idea to cross from Germany by climbing into a wagon in a marshalling yard , but after a tedious wait when nothing moved he returned to his cycle and was soon in sight of the red and white border posts . |
| 8 | The show is great , but after a three-hour musical high , it is back down to sandwiches on the bus , trying to find somewhere to eat after 2 a.m. , or getting into the hotel when the night porter has locked up . |
| 9 | At first , after their early fights , Phoebe would work on making peace , leave the women to be with him , offer herself in ever more elaborate rituals , but after a while repetition made this boring . |
| 10 | In the light of kitchen she sat Maggie down and started to brush gently at her shoulders , but after a minute or so she said , |
| 11 | She made it back to her office and sank into her chair ; but after a few minutes she sat up , combed her hair and decided to go home . |
| 12 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 13 | It was just a few at first , but after a while it got more and more till it 's quite crowded now . |
| 14 | A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact . |
| 15 | He may be shy at first , but after a while he will get over that : he is not half so shy as he was , of course not . |
| 16 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
| 17 | At first she pulled back , but after a few minutes she relaxed a little . |
| 18 | These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend . |
| 19 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 20 | Officials were trying to move them but after a word with our security people , we allowed them to stay . |
| 21 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 22 | But after a bit I started thinking . |
| 23 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 24 | Not too demanding , but after a good run . |
| 25 | The first ferries across the Clyde in the early 19th century were large rowing boats , but after a tragic sinking , the first steam ferries were introduced by the Clyde Trust in 1865 . |
| 26 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 27 | But after a few days Mcduff lost interest . |
| 28 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |
| 29 | Skiing takes place only in the morning as the snow tends to become too soft in the afternoon , but after a morning skiing in glorious sunshine , you can then sunbathe in the afternoon , or water ski and windsurf at Zell am See . |
| 30 | But after a while , the roads on his map began to criss-cross each other in a crazy fashion and it became clear that he had forgotten the geography of his land . |