Example sentences of "and after a " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's all impersonation — in the absence of a self , one impersonates selves , and after a while impersonates best the self that best gets one through . |
| 2 | In this case the spin itself was quite normal , and after a few turns the pilot initiated the recovery by applying the full opposite rudder and then moving the stick forwards . |
| 3 | And after a while it was answered . |
| 4 | The great head of yeast created during fermentation is cropped off and after a week the remaining yeast is overcome by the alcohol it has produced and sinks to the bottom of the fermenter . |
| 5 | He came to England as a Rhodes Scholar in 1958 , and after a year of teaching at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore he returned to Oxford for three years in the early 1960s as research fellow and junior dean at St John 's College . |
| 6 | Pre-tax profits showed a more modest 2.5 per cent increase to £6.3m in the absence of last time 's £409,000 of property profits , and after a slightly higher tax charge earnings per share were almost unchanged at 6.22p . |
| 7 | Chemically-induced terror can be dispersed , I 've found , by concentrating on horrors in the real world , so I thought of That 's Life and VAT and Mrs Thatcher , and after a while I began to feel better . |
| 8 | It was a characteristically defiant performance coming from the leader of a party trailing 8-10 points in the opinion polls , her own satisfaction ratings slumped beaneth her opponent 's , and after a week which had rocked the credibility of her government 's economic policy , on which all else depends . |
| 9 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 10 | I followed the Sergeant out to the office ; we both sat at a small table , and after a very enjoyable supper of cheese rolls we played the chanters until 1 a.m. , pausing from time to time to drink a mug of tea . |
| 11 | On Sunday we rose early and after a good breakfast were eager to get out on the hills . |
| 12 | And after a time they accepted it as their vocation to be childless . |
| 13 | Carl moved into agency at NEMS in the late 1970s and after a few years was instrumental in the formation of the PAN agency . |
| 14 | He fished bloodworm and a three metre whip from a peg near the greenhousees and after a blank first hour and a half eventually caught around 100 fish . |
| 15 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
| 16 | He said it was quieter in there , but I could n't see the lay-by from his room and after a bit I went outside . |
| 17 | Everyone had to be behind the firing point , and after a final check that no one was in the danger area , the authority to fire was given . |
| 18 | Holden battered the free-kick against the wall and after a scramble the ball fell to Henry , who struck a low shot from more than 30 yards past Lukic . |
| 19 | The two rode about the parish together , and after a second visit Mr Brown produced a planting plan and a bill for £73.10s . |
| 20 | Dana would fall asleep immediately he put his head on the pillow , and after a while I had to try to extract myself from his embrace . |
| 21 | ‘ We passed outside the city walls , and after a little walk , entered ; i green garden door , and made our way to a little plain square building , in which were arranged wooden benches , a pulpit and below the pulpit a plain wooden table and chair . |
| 22 | Sometimes Buddie stacked trays of eggs above the pipes to incubate , and after a few days there would be dozens of fluffy , chirruping chicks hatching out in the heat . |
| 23 | You are invited to a party and after a couple of drinks you decide a few crisps or nuts will not hurt . |
| 24 | Her husband began to complain of headaches and lethargy and after a period of investigation in hospital it was discovered that he had a malignant cerebral tumour . |
| 25 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 26 | Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life . |
| 27 | ‘ … and moreover the most gallant gentleman of the realm , and this went on until it resulted in a divorce , and after a second marriage , which was likewise unhappy , she entered the married estate for the third time with a common tar , with whom , though he abused her daily , she herself said that she lived in much greater content than in her first marriage . |
| 28 | Late afternoon and after a brief nap at home in Edinburgh , Frank McBride , the indefatigable chauffeur who will have driven Mr Smith more than 10,000 miles by the end of the campaign , brought his master to Stirling . |
| 29 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 30 | But they all tightened their belts and after a great deal of grunting and squeezing and pulling and pushing they emerged , one by one , into the moonlit churchyard . |