Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 2 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 3 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
| 4 | After a few seconds ' thought I realised that she meant their President , that is the former General who was dictator with the continuing consent of their other commanders . |
| 5 | The first freshers ' dinner I went to in Oxford — this is where the the people who 've just come up erm are introduced to college life and so on — erm the amount that 's allocated to each student is two sherries before dinner , three or four glasses of wine , different wines , with dinner and then something or other — port — after dinner . |
| 6 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |