Example sentences of "[prep] what [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut . |
| 2 | After what seemed like an age , he heard the metal window catch being released . |
| 3 | After what seemed like an eternity of fearsome noise and choking dust caused by the rockfall , John took stock of his situation . |
| 4 | After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas . |
| 5 | After what seemed like hours his tearful mother joined him in the hospital foyer . |
| 6 | We had arrived in San Francisco on Monday , after what seemed like an extremely long flight . |
| 7 | Play eventually restarted , after what seemed like an age , and meandered to an early finish , but the freak accident served to relegate other matters — the remaining overs , a protracted row involving the England players and team manager and a cameraman attempting to capture the stretcher scene on film , and even the imminence of both countries announcing their World Cup squads — to items of secondary importance . |
| 8 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 9 | After what seemed like a couple of hours , but was actually about twenty seconds , she began to rise involuntarily , and something bumped her shoulder painfully . |
| 10 | This is ridiculous , she decided when the taxi finally pulled up outside the cottage , after what seemed like years of self-analysis . |
| 11 | ‘ Hmm , ’ said Faye , after what seemed like several minutes . |
| 12 | After what seemed like all too short a time John gave way to the legendary Brush Shiels , who delivered his unique show to a packed downstairs hall . |
| 13 | After What seemed like a shattering day , I sat on the bus but this time the journey was much more jovial as relief sunk in . |
| 14 | And after what seemed like an eternity the door opened — and she stared in surprise and disbelief at the tall black-haired man with the blue , blue eyes . |
| 15 | At last , after what seemed like an eternity of waiting , his mouth took possession of hers and she whimpered deep in her throat , pressing closer to him , her breasts flattening against the solid wall of his chest . |
| 16 | After what seemed like only a doze she woke to daylight , the wind driving hail against the window with a force which threatened to break it . |
| 17 | ‘ It has been a long hard season for Nigel , and obviously he 'll be a little bit down after what happened at Wembley , ’ said Bingham . |
| 18 | After what happened with Mortimer , she 'd voted herself off men for life . |
| 19 | When they reached home that evening , George said , ‘ After what happened to our Tamar , I do n't like you being here on your own all day . |
| 20 | After what happened to the poor idiot , Donny , at Sallins , just two miles down the road , an Arbuthnot would n't be a trouble to their consciences . |
| 21 | ‘ And after what happened to Bath , I think the whole country must be rejoicing ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ After what happened to Flavia , he would never have risked injecting illegal penicillin into you . |
| 23 | All the fish in the country will have to run for cover after what happened to me this week ! |
| 24 | ‘ Would ye after what happened on the way up to Cajamarca ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I was just thinking what guts you had to start sailing again after what happened on Brynteg , ’ he said , surprising her . |
| 26 | The SDP leader , Dr David Owen , supporting Mr Hurd said ‘ the answer to Mr Tebbit is , after what happened in Tiananmen Square , honour demands that this House needs to do more to sustain the prosperity and security of Hong Kong ’ . |
| 27 | David Penney the scorer and after what happened against Portsmouth last week they realised even a 3-goal lead is n't safe these days . |
| 28 | It has been plausibly argued that this , perhaps too male-centred explanation , begs the question of what led to the increasing mental complexity necessary for hominid evolution in the first place , particularly when the older ancestors seem to have been tropical forest primary consumers . |
| 29 | In other words , Mendel 's theory was a ‘ model ’ of what had to be there to generate the observed behaviour . |
| 30 | It mingled , clashed with the equally cold sense of duty , the detached knowledge of what had to be done . |