Example sentences of "after [art] few [noun pl] [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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1 | After a few moments she was saying very natural and quite irritable ‘ ouches ’ when Phoebe prodded too hard . |
2 | After a few minutes it was the same inside . |
3 | Gaining height rapidly , heading east , after a few minutes it was enveloped by clouds and lost to view . ’ |
4 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
5 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
6 | After a few days I was allowed downstairs and began to eat proper meals again , and two weeks later I started back at school . |
7 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
8 | After a few sessions it was becoming clear that Henry 's impact on the scheme was reciprocal . |
9 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
10 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
11 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |