Example sentences of "after only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one , never to be forgotten occasion , I went to Stonehenge , had a puncture after only a mile on the way back and then had to walk nine miles home . |
| 2 | After only a minute or so he got up and said , without looking at me , ‘ All right . |
| 3 | After only a minute of play or painting or whatever he should have been doing , he would leave his place , then snatch toys , kick children , overturn furniture and try to run out of the nursery . |
| 4 | After only a minute he looked up , frowning . |
| 5 | Last year when one of them had left after only a fortnight she had given Nurse Rose a travelling clock and a nearly full bottle of Rochas ' Femme . |
| 6 | Some left after only a fortnight and , as time went by , it became increasingly hard to maintain the blockade . |
| 7 | In fact they needed little breaking in and after only a couple of long walks they were very comfortable indeed . |
| 8 | Two watch-worthy Frenchmen , Jean-Noel Pariente , 30 , and Lionel Fainfray , 29 , whose Arthur brand of men 's underpants sells 800,000 pairs in France after only a couple of years in existence , are preparing a charge into the UK market . |
| 9 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 10 | She certainly is , after only a couple of circuits her confidence is growing . |
| 11 | After only a couple of days , comprising mainly insults and bickering , she had n't felt as if they were strangers . |
| 12 | After only a week of filming his third American film , Kidnapped , in 1937 , he was fired by Darryl F Zanuck after an argument , and Zanuck saw to it that Preminger was virtually blacklisted . |
| 13 | After only a week of this treatment complex molecules were found to have formed in the mixture , including sugars , nucleic acids and amino acids , the building blocks of proteins . |
| 14 | ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’ |
| 15 | Eden is always somewhere else , or someone else 's — or else it is snatched away after only a moment , at most , or only distantly seen , felt or known . |
| 16 | She had n't thought she would understand what Fand meant ; but after only a moment the sense came to her that she was looking at a prisoner — at someone captive , helpless . |
| 17 | That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ . |