Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [pron] " 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 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 14 | Buy him a cup of coffee or a beer , and after a bit you say , ‘ Do you love your wife ? ’ |
| 15 | So er er after a bit you see he changed them round , he , he guessed somebody were and of course I got the job |
| 16 | After a bit she got up again and crept down to her mother 's room . |
| 17 | After a bit she shouted , ‘ The trot has a one-two rhythm . |
| 18 | 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 ? ’ |
| 19 | After a bit she became used to being stared at , even taking it as a compliment . |
| 20 | After a bit she said , ‘ I do n't know about Ephraim . |
| 21 | After a bit he said , ‘ I think we 've located the cause of your trouble . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( After a bit he said , they had their silly jokes . ) |
| 26 | After a drink she might enjoy slamming to him the suggestion that Steve and Maria Luisa might get back together again . |
| 27 | SCREAMING relatives were dragged from court yesterday after a joyrider who killed two children was attacked in the dock . |
| 28 | And although the margin of defeat at Villa Park was slender , Graham labelled his team as ‘ an easy touch ’ after a performance which leaves them with just two points from their last seven games and now a 10-1 title bet . |
| 29 | Rangers nevertheless extended their lead over Aberdeen in the championship to ten points after a performance which had seemed destined to go unrewarded before the floodgates opened . |
| 30 | When in 1859 nine of the most upright miners from Seaton Delaval — ‘ every man a teetotaller , six of them Primitive Methodists , and two of the six local preachers ’ — were sent to jail for two months after a strike which they had opposed , the mine manager was quite clear on this point . |