Example sentences of "few [noun] after [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Bedwelty arrived a few minutes after they did and they all piled into the factory . |
| 2 | A few minutes after they drove away there was a knock at the front door . |
| 3 | A few minutes after they started again a movement out on the plain caught Nathaniel Sherman 's eye . |
| 4 | This part of Enfield has those yellow sodium lamps that have that delicate rosy glow for the first few minutes after they are switched on . |
| 5 | The message probably arrived a few minutes after we left . |
| 6 | Your presence may help to concentrate its mind , however , and you can establish a routine whereby it can run around and play for a few minutes after it has performed as desired . |
| 7 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 8 | I 'll be able to model your gown ; it 's right at the end of the show , so I 'll have a few minutes after I 've finished Roman 's clothes . ’ |
| 9 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 10 | For a few minutes after he came in , the rats were quiet . |
| 11 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 12 | The doorbell rang a few minutes after she had opened the lid of her case and returned downstairs to make herself a cup of tea . |
| 13 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 14 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , there is no certain way of knowing of food is dangerous … until a few hours after it is eaten . |
| 16 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 17 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 18 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 19 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 20 | In the early evening of 25 August 1944 , a few hours after he had arrived in liberated Paris , de Gaulle stood at a window of the Hôtel de Ville and acknowledged the cheers of thousands of Parisians gathered down below . |
| 21 | Police believe he died a few hours after he was abducted . |
| 22 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 23 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |
| 24 | A few months after he return from England he bought a flight ticket to Montevideo in Uruguay . |
| 25 | There is no reason why you should not have a weekly reward for remaining the same weight , at least for a few months after you have attained your ideal shape . |
| 26 | A few months after I joined the Department of Transport in 1979 I was presented with an issue which had baffled governments for well over a hundred years . |
| 27 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 28 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 29 | Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in . |
| 30 | Within few years after she is in jar with another . |