Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After a bit I got up and — I went back . |
| 3 | After a bit I get bored and carry on walking up the street . |
| 4 | After a bit I feel better so I start eating my doughnut . |
| 5 | But after a bit I started thinking . |
| 6 | After a bit I stood and stared . |
| 7 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 8 | After a bit I 'll probably start seeing visions . |
| 9 | After a minute I get up and go into my old room . |
| 10 | ‘ You know perfectly well , Marler , that these days I only go after a story I think is really worthwhile . |
| 11 | So when I bought a dog I decided to name him after a man I admired so much . ’ |
| 12 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |
| 13 | But a good spy is supposed to take risks , so after a while I tiptoed along the passage to Claire 's door and peeped in . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After a while I became calmer ; then the postman came , and the milkman , and life became more normal . |
| 18 | After a while I began to feel a little like Dorothy myself . |
| 19 | It slowed things up to keep slipping it in and out of my jeans pocket so after a while I tucked it up the sleeve of my jersey . |
| 20 | After a while I said , ‘ Doone came to see me twice . |
| 21 | After a while I left the family room and wandered through the great central hall and on into the far side of the house , into Perkin 's workroom . |
| 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 | But downstairs I rang the bell next to the black steel gates and after a while I heard someone coming to the front door . |
| 24 | She never revealed her own secrets to me but then after a while I made no more enquiries — I did n't want to do anything to lose her . ’ |
| 25 | At first this left me speechless , but after a while I began to ask ‘ Why ? ’ |
| 26 | Arthur Cook , a friend of mine who lived in The Friary , came with me to the allotment and after a while I suppose we became bored — we were only seven . |
| 27 | It soon became evident that the orchestra was fractionally behind on several entries — not enough to unsettle the soloist-aware listener , but after a while I was just waiting for it to happen . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After a while I thought I would help them along with some cellulite massage cream . |
| 30 | After a while I asked her whether she was all right and she said yes . |