Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] after a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked after a long pause . |
| 2 | I wanted to become a reporter because I lusted after a belted trenchcoat like the one Joel McCrea wore in Hitchcock 's Foreign Correspondent . |
| 3 | I stopped after a short while and said ‘ this is nonsense — I ca n't learn any more of this sort of thing by two o'clock — I must just do a prose right through and see how I get on ’ . |
| 4 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |
| 5 | Vanessa and I decided after a delicious cream tea to burn up some energy walking to Golden Cap , which at 618ft is the highest cliff in Southern England . |
| 6 | One example my coal hole accommodated for nigh on ten years was a case of Krug I bought after a successful poker evening . |
| 7 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 8 | ‘ A good few thousand , ’ I said after a brief pause for calculation . |
| 9 | It should be noted that cl 3.2 gives a right to reject for latent defects that could not have been discovered upon examination and which appear after a reasonable period of use . |
| 10 | For me , overriding all practical considerations , there is the spiritual uplift which comes after a long sea passage when , at dawn or evening , I enter some tangle-fringed sea loch with the majesty of the hills reflecting from its still waters . |
| 11 | The Cavaliers occupied Burghley House , but they were heavily outnumbered , and Cromwell forced them to surrender after a bitter siege . |
| 12 | A salutary cautionary note is sounded by Zillmann who concludes after a painstaking review of experimental evidence that ‘ the amount of relevant data on animal aggression from both laboratory and field investigations is nearly overwhelming . |
| 13 | ‘ It will take a bit of getting used to , ’ she remarked slowly , ‘ although , ’ she added after a slight pause , ‘ it does make you look — ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We should never have come , ’ she muttered after a long silence , ‘ and if I had my way , we 'd leave here tomorrow . |
| 15 | It was a day for jeans and a T-shirt , she decided after a quick look at the sky — a mottled jigsaw of blue and white . |
| 16 | No , she decided after a short reflection . |
| 17 | By dissecting the brain of a 74-year-old man who died after a 14-year history of Alzheimer 's , DeLong and his co-workers showed a ‘ profound and selective loss ’ of Meynert cells , compared to brains of people who died without a history of dementia . |
| 18 | Alexander tried to steady Muscovites by visiting the city in September 1855 , but his visit was offset by the effect on public opinion of the Westernizers ' laments for Granovskii , who died after a short illness on 4 October . |
| 19 | The first chief justice was John Jay , who resigned after a short time due to his belief that the job would never amount to anything . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , heightened expectations of the imminent release of Nelson Mandela had been fuelled by remarks on Jan. 8 by his wife Winnie Mandela , who said after a three-hour visit to his prison bungalow that " I do n't think that we are talking about months any longer " . |
| 21 | ‘ You feel safer at home than what you do further away , ’ she said after a long silence , addressing no one . |
| 22 | Then she said after a small silence , ‘ Alex 's flat is too minute for two . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I get homesick all the time , ’ she said after a short visit home to see her brother Lawrence , a joiner in Derry . |
| 24 | ‘ I — have n't decided yet , ’ she said after a brief hesitation . |
| 25 | It is always a big event and probably just what we want after a bad defeat . ’ |
| 26 | A real Canadian breakfast , pancakes and honey , with eggs and ham and coffee , just what we needed after a good workout . |
| 27 | This was a strong finish , though , from a singer who may have felt she had something to prove after a disappointing debut with her current trio in Edinburgh last year . |
| 28 | It helps me relax after a hard day 's rapping about controversial political and social issues . |
| 29 | This survey revealed that 4 per cent of adults reported that they looked after a dependant living in the same house ( i.e. they were co-resident carer ) with a further 10 per cent reporting that they looked after a dependant in another household ( i.e. they were an extra-resident carer ) . |
| 30 | Referee Robert Davies sent him packing after a mass fight . |