Example sentences of "but after [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His back was cured within a couple of weeks — not , it turns out , as a result of the acupuncture but after a bit of dancing while on holiday . |
| 32 | Once these images must have excited lust — enough to make someone take the trouble to cut them out and stick them up on the wall ; but after a day or two , or a week or two , the pictures had ceased to arouse , they had become familiar — faded and tattered and oil-stained , almost indistinguishable from the dirt and debris of the rest of the factory . |
| 33 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 34 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |
| 35 | But after a while his father stopped him to say he was not singing what he had been taught . |
| 36 | But after a moment , he sat down next to her . |
| 37 | Another 250 words may not sound much in the great scheme of things , but after a heavy day at Pipeline and an end-of-contest thrash at the Turtle Bay Hilton , it felt like being asked to dash off another chapter of War and Peace . |
| 38 | At first it was quite nice attending interviews and things like that but after a while they all just become the same . |
| 39 | I began a slow jog , but after a quarter of a mile , it seemed that my feet had gained weight and that somebody was sitting on my chest . |
| 40 | But after a while the Yugoslav government took them over , and converted them into agreements to supply oil . |
| 41 | Early in the year , flooding of the road at the northern end of the village had been a grave problem , but after a great deal of pressure on the authorities , the matter had been successfully resolved . |
| 42 | She was sure she had got it right , but after a short pause she signalled it again , exactly as before . |
| 43 | At first this left me speechless , but after a while I began to ask ‘ Why ? ’ |
| 44 | But after a few days , with no sign of the weather clearing , he began to feel like a prisoner . |
| 45 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 46 | She then went to bed feeling more relaxed , but after a while felt unwell and was soon sick . |
| 47 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 48 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 49 | But after a year , and at the request of members , there were discussions held on all sorts of other subjects . |
| 50 | They were very sympathetic but after a while the tension began to build with ever-increasing rows . |
| 51 | It is clear that the bunched replacement of fixed capital requires a considerable growth in the rate of the production of fixed assets , but after a few years the need for such replacement will decline rapidly . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | At first this was merely the usual paranoid rumour inevitable under a ruthless regime where informers abounded , but after a time a more imaginative version emerged . |
| 54 | But after a minute he let his hands drop and picked at the rubbish in the bin . |
| 55 | But after a moment he turned over again , mumbling thickly : ‘ Harri ? |
| 56 | But after a minute he put her away and started the engine . |
| 57 | But after a week or so things settled down again and the sky and the forest resumed their usual pattern . |
| 58 | As it was no longer raining they had not taken shelter in any of the caves , but after a time the thin man out of sheer restlessness looked into the nearest and came out carrying a sack . |
| 59 | ‘ D ’ , my husband , did n't accept me loving another girl when I told him I was a lesbian , but after a while he accepted me as Carla — 100 per cent . |
| 60 | Ramprakash has long been known to have a short fuse but after a year in the England set-up , it was to be hoped he had matured . |