Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun sg] after [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel Lavender began to smooth down finger after finger of her gardening gloves , intent upon maintaining appearances , even through domestic tasks . |
| 2 | And the job there was to pick up tray after tray of tiny little sprigs about that high in little tiny paper cardboard boxes . |
| 3 | Not content with his careful appraisal of eye , he produced from his rather torn and shabby coat , a small movie camera and proceeded to set up shot after shot of a narrow-gauge narrative . |
| 4 | And there , sure enough , was the interior of old Jean Damiani 's soap factory with a row of moustachioed Palestinians piling up bar after bar of soap around the walls . |
| 5 | Her name , she says , is Elena ; her dark eyes gleam with gay desperation , an impression fuelled by the way she tosses back glass after glass of sparkling wine . |
| 6 | Like being terribly thirsty and gulping down glass after glass of water . |
| 7 | Century Theatre 's production plays out the twists and turns of these conundrums at lightning pace and essential split-second timing , carried on wave after wave of Stoppard 's ever-inventive language . |