Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a bit they sat up and watched the welcome breeze work like an animal through the silver-green barley . |
| 2 | After a bit I got up and — I went back . |
| 3 | He said it was quieter in there , but I could n't see the lay-by from his room and after a bit I went outside . |
| 4 | After a bit she got up again and crept down to her mother 's room . |
| 5 | He dumped it down behind the boat-house and went back towards the house , then after a bit he came down again with a picture , and dumped that , then he took the bag and made off up the path with it . ’ |
| 6 | I saw him take a look at the boat-house first , then , when I suppose he saw you were n't home , he went up towards the house , and after a bit he came back with a bag , you know , like Santa Claus , slung over his shoulder . |
| 7 | After a minute I get up and go into my old room . |
| 8 | FOURTEEN human rights activists were sentenced on 17 March to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years after a trial which fell below international standards for fair trial . |
| 9 | This was a variation on the routine he would put himself through every time after a man he had just slept with had left the flat ; he would check his body for scratches , bruises and teethmarks . |
| 10 | So when I bought a dog I decided to name him after a man I admired so much . ’ |
| 11 | When after a year he moved away to another job , she felt acute distress and thought continuously of him for many months . |
| 12 | With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't . |
| 13 | After a while they pulled up outside a large concrete hotel , not quite finished , incorporating a long cruelly-lit restaurant , almost empty , which faced the road . |
| 14 | It was just a few at first , but after a while it got more and more till it 's quite crowded now . |
| 15 | I stroked his big woolly head , and after a while it got very heavy and I suspected he 'd dropped off to sleep . |
| 16 | THEY can do and have what they like and after a while it does n't mean anything to them . |
| 17 | The computer screen was still going crazy in front of them , but after a while it slowed down . |
| 18 | After a while it turned on to a concrete road , where another truck was waiting . |
| 19 | After a while I calmed down enough to rest myself . |
| 20 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 21 | After a while I sat down at a pavement café table and rather shamefacedly clapped my hands , but produced such a ladylike patter that no one heard me . |
| 22 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 23 | After a while he got up from his knees . |
| 24 | After a while he said slowly , ‘ I see that you too have noticed something strange about the picture . |
| 25 | After a while he looked up . |
| 26 | After a while he became more the professor than the professor was himself — just by observing the distinguished man and taking his being into and upon himself … yes , I have never forgotten that . |
| 27 | After a while he took off her cardigan and his jersey and then the rest of their clothes , and made love to her on the folk-weave bedspread of her university bed . |
| 28 | After a while he stepped back and puffed again at my side . |
| 29 | At first there was an uneasy silence , but after a while he thawed enough to read odd items of news aloud to her . |
| 30 | After a while he went out into the hall and I heard him pick up the thing that makes noises and which he talks into when there 's no-one here . |