Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no clues to its mystery but those contained in Chant 's letter , and after a hundred readings they were exhausted . |
| 2 | After a few moments she was saying very natural and quite irritable ‘ ouches ’ when Phoebe prodded too hard . |
| 3 | After a few minutes we were shaking hands . |
| 4 | After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed . |
| 5 | After a few minutes it was the same inside . |
| 6 | Gaining height rapidly , heading east , after a few minutes it was enveloped by clouds and lost to view . ’ |
| 7 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
| 8 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 9 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 10 | After a few days I was allowed downstairs and began to eat proper meals again , and two weeks later I started back at school . |
| 11 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 12 | After a few sessions it was becoming clear that Henry 's impact on the scheme was reciprocal . |
| 13 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
| 14 | Now there were two and after a few months there were four . |
| 15 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
| 16 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 17 | They knew that in every list of a hundred subscribers there were one or two with real money , and on them they descended in their raucous , black-gowned hordes . |
| 18 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 19 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 20 | For a dozen years it was a vintage period in all respects . |
| 21 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 22 | For a few minutes I was free of this terrible worry about who I am , about my family . |
| 23 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |
| 24 | They sat in their saddles , and for a few minutes there was a great peace , as if the world held its breath at the beauty of this Irish evening . |
| 25 | For a few minutes there were heated exchanges between the two ; Melissa could not catch the words , but it appeared that Gebrec was giving instructions which Fernand appeared reluctant to carry out . |
| 26 | For a few moments I was intensely conscious of the tree and saw nothing else . |
| 27 | For a few moments I was utterly terrified . |
| 28 | For a few moments I was silent , feeling her sorrow , so discordant among the bright seasonal colours of this festive room . |
| 29 | For a few moments he was content to look at the maid 's face and the way the orange firelight lent it strength and mystery . |
| 30 | For a few moments he was content to hold her , then the solar spun before Isabel 's vision as she was lifted into fitzAlan 's arms . |