Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] after a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 2 | ‘ I usually replace them after a month or so . ’ |
| 3 | A YOUNG man hanged himself after a row with his girlfriend , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 4 | Satisfying himself after a while , he commenced to write a follow-up letter , composed by George and dated 31 August . |
| 5 | Forest Mere , which is owned and run most luxuriously by the Savoy Group , really is the most wonderful place in the world to revive one after a tiring period , and remove any aches and pains . |
| 6 | You see a name come up on the leaderboard , then it might disappear and you think to yourself , ‘ I wonder what happened to him ? ’ , and you forget him after a while . |
| 7 | The 30-year-old man , who has not been named , died despite the efforts of coastguards and ambulancemen , who tried to revive him after a failed rescue attempt by surfers . |
| 8 | Again short of water , they found themselves after a brief sandstorm in the middle of a group of Italian vehicles . |
| 9 | Initially he whispered the line , but it was embarrassing to have to continually repeat himself after a series of ‘ pardons ’ and ‘ whats ? ’ and he soon discovered that if he spoke a line clearly and loudly he was n't noticed as much . |
| 10 | He found his colleague struggling with two youths , and managed to arrest one after a brief chase . |
| 11 | Well she never looked brown all the time , do you know , I do n't think it affected her after a while . |
| 12 | This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny . |
| 13 | The place is full of the aroma of Spot-Knee , the ram lamb who recently copped it after a blissful organic life . |
| 14 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 15 | ‘ And while you 're getting out of there , you run straight into a patrol car and they arrest you after a chase . |
| 16 | Standing outside in the gloom of the area she said , quite naturally , " You go ahead , dear , and I 'll follow you after a minute or two . |
| 17 | The government began the attempt to extricate itself after a critical report by the Audit Commission in 1986 , which led to comprehensive reviews of community care policies ( Audit Commission 1986 ; Griffith 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Hearts ' defender was in Roxburgh 's original squad and it was always the intention to play him after a worthwhile display against Portugal in October . |
| 19 | Making this ready might involve cleaning it after a previous bather and then running fresh water . |
| 20 | If your child does have sweets , it 's better to give them after a meal . |
| 21 | Be sensible in your plans , though ; there is no point in forcing yourself to do something after a hard day 's work , for example . |
| 22 | And Burrows senselessly followed him after a late challenge on Khlestov . |
| 23 | The German Environment , Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Minister , Klaus Töpfer , initially expressed disappointment with the French action , but agreed to respect it after a meeting in Strasbourg on Aug. 31 with the French Environment Minister , Ségolène Royal , pending further talks later in the year . |
| 24 | Her voice was thin and cold , the way I like it After a while she cooed and cursed me into peace . |
| 25 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 26 | • What your intense desire for Jim tells me is that you are a highly sexual person : one who has managed to heal herself after a difficult marriage and who 's now ready for a physical relationship . |
| 27 | It took the jury at Nottingham Crown Court less than three hours to convict them after a two-week trial . |
| 28 | Although he bought Jenny a £2,000 diamond engagement ring and happily re-settled in his Brentford mansion , his scoring prowess deserted him after a vicious tackle by Stoke 's notorious Chris Kamara left McAvennie with a broken leg , an injury that kept him out of first team football for months . |
| 29 | Although the language was a bit complicated you were able to understand it after a while through the actors way of raising and lowering their voices . |
| 30 | I goes what ? , oh do n't worry , I was pretending not to hear what she was saying cos she misses it after a while , thought |