Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 2 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 3 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 4 | He disappeared into the stable and after a few moments I peeped inside . |
| 5 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 6 | After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief . |
| 7 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 8 | After a few minutes I felt pins and needles in my behind , my blood pressure was fine and I was allowed to sit up again . |
| 9 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
| 10 | After a few minutes I managed to get to my knees and use a pee-bottle , although after sweating so much , I ca n't imagine I needed to . |
| 11 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 12 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
| 13 | After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move . |
| 14 | After a few struggles I managed to disarm him and get some of the money back . |
| 15 | After a few sessions I had to stop . |
| 16 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 17 | After a few paces I stopped and looked around . |
| 18 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 19 | For a few moments I had let my mind plunge into darkness , into a world where the experience of all my life was disproved and ghosts existed . |
| 20 | For a few moments I felt disappointment . |
| 21 | Actually , I did n't like the way Diggs questioned me about what had happened , and for a few moments I thought he might have guessed , but my replies seemed to satisfy him . |
| 22 | For a few days I had even considered calling the shop Trumper and Salmon , but dropped that idea when I realised that would only tie me in with Charlie for life . |
| 23 | Bellybutton was McIllvanney 's foreman , and for a few seconds I dared hope that he had come to help us , but instead he told me that one of the bareboat thirty-three-footers was in trouble . |
| 24 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 25 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 26 | Within a few months I took a small office space oh dear I ca n't remember . |
| 27 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 28 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 29 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 30 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |