Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] after [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 2 | He turned and after a few seconds said : |
| 3 | He dialled and after a few rings a female voice answered . |
| 4 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 5 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |