Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [pers pn] " 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 we let go of each other . |
| 3 | After a bit we both found the grammar rather monotonous and tried a little conversation so that my English would benefit too . |
| 4 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After a bit I got up and — I went back . |
| 7 | After a bit I get bored and carry on walking up the street . |
| 8 | After a bit I feel better so I start eating my doughnut . |
| 9 | But after a bit I started thinking . |
| 10 | After a bit I stood and stared . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After a bit I 'll probably start seeing visions . |
| 13 | Buy him a cup of coffee or a beer , and after a bit you say , ‘ Do you love your wife ? ’ |
| 14 | So er er after a bit you see he changed them round , he , he guessed somebody were and of course I got the job |
| 15 | After a bit she got up again and crept down to her mother 's room . |
| 16 | After a bit she shouted , ‘ The trot has a one-two rhythm . |
| 17 | She lies there on her side , facing me , watching me , still panting , hands still trapped behind her back , a strange , charged expression on her face , and after a bit she says , ‘ Is that it ? ’ |
| 18 | After a bit she became used to being stared at , even taking it as a compliment . |
| 19 | After a bit she said , ‘ I do n't know about Ephraim . |
| 20 | After a bit he said , ‘ I think we 've located the cause of your trouble . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | After a bit he got a job in a brick works and picked up £80 a week on day shift and £100 on night shift . |
| 24 | ( After a bit he said , they had their silly jokes . ) |
| 25 | After a drink she might enjoy slamming to him the suggestion that Steve and Maria Luisa might get back together again . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He stood back and glimpsed a face at an upstair window so he knocked again and after a delay he heard someone coming down the stairs . |
| 28 | He pushed at the gate and after a struggle it creaked and groaned open on its one rusty hinge . |
| 29 | The whole plan greatly alarmed the French for the small boats would be impossible to detect on radar and if any of the occupants were affected by radioactivity after a test they would automatically become worldwide martyrs . |
| 30 | After a discussion she and Kim 's GP decided to refer Kim 's to the social services on 7 September . |