Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a bit we let go of each other . |
| 2 | But after a bit I started thinking . |
| 3 | In Burt 's day an army of 50 men was employed to look after the Durlston estate , but after a century it had become neglected : overgrown with foliage , fallen walls and rusty wartime installations . |
| 4 | ‘ After a minute he came staggering out of the smoke . ’ |
| 5 | and after a mile we stopped to lower the seat . |
| 6 | Local researchers should seek out these records — after a while they tend to go missing . |
| 7 | Some people laughed at her , but after a while they began to take her seriously . |
| 8 | After a while they seemed to get bored with kicking their legs in the air . |
| 9 | Yes , I 've got yeah I know they did , but I think after a while they stopped doing that I think the latest ones you 'll find do n't , do n't do that , they gave , you know , after a while they gave that up , but I , I must check on that , I must check on . |
| 10 | After a while we appeared to stop accelerating in this nose-high stance — and of course we could no longer clearly see where we were going , so I eased the yoke forward to lift us onto the step . |
| 11 | After a while we decided to round off the day by taking ourselves to the cinema , and ended up by catching the 11pm liberty wagon back to camp . |
| 12 | At first this left me speechless , but after a while I began to ask ‘ Why ? ’ |
| 13 | At first my eyes and ears did not work very well , but after a while I began to see and hear clearly . |
| 14 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 15 | But after a while I began to think there was more to it than that , and I did n't know how to handle it . |
| 16 | After a while I began to understand some of the noises that the people made to each other . |
| 17 | Chemically-induced terror can be dispersed , I 've found , by concentrating on horrors in the real world , so I thought of That 's Life and VAT and Mrs Thatcher , and after a while I began to feel better . |
| 18 | After a while I began to feel a little like Dorothy myself . |
| 19 | My father was never to speak or write to me again , but after a while I began to hear from my mother . |
| 20 | After a while I had to spit . |
| 21 | Dana would fall asleep immediately he put his head on the pillow , and after a while I had to try to extract myself from his embrace . |
| 22 | And er well after a while I had to rush upstairs . |
| 23 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 24 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 25 | ‘ After a while I stopped blaming myself and simply accepted the fact that it was nothing personal , no major failing on my part , it was simply the way Claire was . |
| 26 | After a while I started to get official letters threatening to send me to prison if I did n't find work . |
| 27 | She made a broth from the bones , using roots that flourished in the summer season , and after a while he had recouped some of his strength . |
| 28 | Ted 's initial fear was that they 'd done something stupid and run away together , but then after a while he 'd begun to hope for this and nothing worse . |
| 29 | But still Jack listened , and after a while he began to make out the quick flow of words . |
| 30 | But after a while he began to accept that what I told him must be true . |