Example sentences of "and after a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Scarman did , however , mention the section at several points in the course of his speech , and after a consideration of its provisions and other matters said , at pp. 188–189 : |
| 2 | You are invited to a party and after a couple of drinks you decide a few crisps or nuts will not hurt . |
| 3 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 4 | Eventually he put his shoulder to it , and after a couple of bruising attacks the door fell in — and he with it . |
| 5 | Still , I 'm glad I stole Friday and Saturday to see the boys , and after a couple of hours ' sleep , I awoke refreshed and looking forward to the arrival of David Grindrod for lunch . |
| 6 | Plants will normally come to bloom earlier in a greenhouse than outside , but in either case the most propitious time for the operation is during a spell , and after a couple of days , of bright sunny weather . |
| 7 | Take this turn and after a couple of miles the road narrows incredibly through the hedges and stone houses of the village . |
| 8 | Many diets fail because they do not provide the variety of foods that the body craves and after a couple of enthusiastic days the willpower begins to weaken . |
| 9 | They are extremely active little animals and after a couple of weeks , as soon as their fur is grown and their eyes are open , they start to supplement their mother 's milk with insects and other invertebrates that they find for themselves . |
| 10 | I phoned the Packard Bell hotline and after a couple of days ' wait they were very helpful . |
| 11 | The audience was n't going to let Del Amitri get away and after a couple of minutes to catch their breath back , Justin and company returned to give us some more . |
| 12 | she said well it happened to me , it 's the chemicals on the skin of the fruit and the tomatoes , that 's what brought your spots on and after a couple of days or whatever they went away . |
| 13 | Distinctions were soon lost , and after a spell of being known as Alba the country became once and for all Scotland , though some of its boundaries were still in a state of flux . |
| 14 | Then , after chewing and swallowing the fragrant morsel , and after a sip of the strong green Longjing ch'a — itself ‘ untasted ’ — he had looked up at Beth Shepherd and smiled broadly , complimenting her on the dish . |
| 15 | But towards dawn the fever broke , and after a breakfast of tea and warm bread I felt better . |
| 16 | And after a bit of exploring and prodding man and wo-man got it right . |
| 17 | I found Malpass 's pistol and torch behind the table and after a bit of contortion I managed to stuff them into my jacket pockets . |
| 18 | I even thought of going off to Australia , but I re-sat my exams , went back to college and after a bit of nightclubbing eventually got into the gym just to get fit again . |
| 19 | He held him firmly , as his parents had always told him to do , and after a battle of wills , staring at him all the time , the leprechaun began to weaken . |
| 20 | He came to England as a Rhodes Scholar in 1958 , and after a year of teaching at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore he returned to Oxford for three years in the early 1960s as research fellow and junior dean at St John 's College . |
| 21 | These can be thought of as two separate systems with the non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts forming the core authorities ( see fig. 3.1 ) The first local councils under the 1972 Act were elected in 1973 and after a year of preparation , took office formally on the first day of April 1974 . |
| 22 | And after a week of not earning I said , There something wrong here . |
| 23 | Coleen was not going to be rushed and after a lot of thought she decided to go to stay with friends in England to think things over . |
| 24 | So , I used the ship 's sails , rope , and pieces of wood , and after a lot of hard work I had a very fine tent . |
| 25 | To try and generate some more interest in aviation we looked into starting a project that was relevant to the area and after a lot of research we came up with a Flying Flea . |
| 26 | Er they wanted to charge us eighty pence per transaction , and after a lot of argument we managed to pin them down er at er ten pounds for the at at the rate of two pounds fifty per quarter . |
| 27 | I arrived at the Castle early on Monday morning , and after a glass of rum and milk , we set out on the road . |
| 28 | Her husband began to complain of headaches and lethargy and after a period of investigation in hospital it was discovered that he had a malignant cerebral tumour . |
| 29 | Sexual relations between the newcomer and the old man 's daughters are not resented , and after a period of mutual co-existence the young male leads the daughters into a separate existence as a new harem . |
| 30 | But they do at least survive , and after a period of time will be able to regrow their tails . |