Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments he began walking , pausing once to look up at the grand facade of the Shelbourne . |
| 2 | After a few moments he realized they were flying on an interception course . |
| 3 | After a few moments he returned . |
| 4 | After a few moments he said calmly , ‘ Now , Jane , be sensible . |
| 5 | After a few minutes he raised his head and was now sitting motionless , pale and haggard but controlled , while Iris , her eyes moist with sympathetic tears , stood silently and helplessly by . |
| 6 | After a few minutes he burst into our room with a shocked look on his face . |
| 7 | After a few minutes he came back and locked the door behind him . |
| 8 | After a few minutes he had spoken again . |
| 9 | I did so and after a few minutes he said , ‘ Good enough , now you can continue in English . ’ |
| 10 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 11 | After a few minutes he heaved himself out of bed , but his leg let him down and he fell backwards . |
| 12 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 13 | He became ill , and after a few days he died in my arms . |
| 14 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 15 | After a few steps he turned . |
| 16 | After a few rears he managed to move in a kind of canter holding his near-fore out in front of him , never once letting it touch the ground . |
| 17 | Luke had tensed as she touched him , and after a few seconds he flung her hand off , the violence of the gesture silencing her abruptly . |
| 18 | After a few seconds he looked like a Dark Age warlord in mid campaign , in mid mop-up , on mired mountaintop , taking a glazed breather before moving on to the women and children . |
| 19 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 20 | ‘ After a few weeks he told her he was going home , and asked her to go with him . |
| 21 | Maskell first here 's his record … over the years he 's nearly averaging a goal every other game … quarter of a million pounds he cost Swindon … one of the bargain buys of the season … |
| 22 | SPRINGFIELDS employee Bal Misry has been awarded £2,392 for a money-saving suggestions he made about weld samples . |
| 23 | Well , I was there , behind the bar , standing in for Marcus , for a few minutes he said , more like two hours , so I saw it all develop . |
| 24 | George drove , not going anywhere , and for a few minutes he said nothing , then : ‘ Ecology . |
| 25 | My Donald had terrible injuries , yet for a few minutes he lived . |
| 26 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 27 | For a few minutes he remained silent and she wondered where the bright start to the day had gone . |
| 28 | It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames . |
| 29 | For a few moments he lay panting , his side heaving in exhaustion . |
| 30 | For a few moments he did n't seem to realise she was there . |