Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a drink she might enjoy slamming to him the suggestion that Steve and Maria Luisa might get back together again . |
| 2 | ‘ After a day he will know the names of everyone on the set and he goes to great lengths to make sure we all enjoy ourselves , organising lunches and so on . |
| 3 | But then after a while they 'll think |
| 4 | If this fails , after a while they may manage to overcome their distaste for a particular substance and then it is necessary to change one 's tactics . |
| 5 | He warned : ‘ After a while they will claim that you accepted pay for your country ’ . |
| 6 | After a while they must follow him and be armed with dagger and sword . |
| 7 | After a while it will drop down dead , and there you have his magic ! ’ |
| 8 | After a while I could see dimly by the light filtering through the sacking hung over the two narrow slits which are the Bunker 's only windows . |
| 9 | He may be shy at first , but after a while he will get over that : he is not half so shy as he was , of course not . |
| 10 | After a while you 'll find yourself beginning to enjoy breakfast . |
| 11 | Bloody hurt it bruises , you sit on it and it does n't , I thought I might , I suppose after a while you 'll get blisters but it 's bruised , when you sit on the bloody thing . |
| 12 | ‘ After a while you will understand , ’ said Dr Haidar , shaking his head gloomily . |
| 13 | After a while you will begin to see that perfection is like the fairy tale castle , you keep moving towards it , but it 's always out of reach . |
| 14 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 15 | But she is n't , and surely if I tell her , then after a while she will see that it is all right and forgive me . |
| 16 | A rationale after a command which can obscure what is required and encourage the child to ask questions and side track , e.g. ‘ Please pick up your toys , you 've got a friend coming and I want your room to look tidy ’ . |
| 17 | After a time I could hear distant shouts . |
| 18 | On the first occasion something will go well , but maybe after a time you will see that it was not right . |
| 19 | Despite their small size the fry are relatively hardy and grow quite quickly , and after a week they will take brine shrimp without any problem . |
| 20 | The journal has now changed its status to that of a charity which will give tax advantages and will enable it to set up an endowment fund . |
| 21 | But the more people who were actively deceived , the more ill at ease and the more of a villain she would feel . |
| 22 | With the help of a tanker It can get to the Falklands and back and a stretch version , means it can carry larger loads and go further . |
| 23 | Just as the poem reflects on the literary tradition of which it is a part — Eliot mentioned his own deliberate use of Cleveland and Benlowes as well as Blake and early Yeats — it could also be read as a celebration of English history , of a tradition which would survive the betrayals of the contemporary generation : |
| 24 | Because when he told me their name was I thought of a girl I used to know called Louise , but it is n't her |
| 25 | Duncan said nothing , but remembered the words of a friend who used to have a Lada and Skoda dealership in Putney . |
| 26 | Had I still been suspicious of a haemorrhage I would have sent him to Edinburgh for a brain scan . ’ |
| 27 | Thus the British were denied the chance of a monarch who would have been more cultivated than any of the other Hanoverians , while Sophia , born in exile , died without ever visiting the country to whose throne she was heir . |
| 28 | We saw Ede working on the building of a dam which would improve the water supply by 900 per cent and thereby reduce the hunger and disease that lakes a toll of half the children up to five , The other side of his work is to build up grass-roots organisations so the campesinos can protect their rights . |
| 29 | Opposition from the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) led to the omission of a clause which would have allowed police to detain suspects without charge for up to 48 hours . |
| 30 | This would occupy a fraction of a second which would have to be made up by hurrying over the next group of semiquavers , and would sound breathless and hectic . |