Example sentences of "[verb] and after a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They squirmed , shrivelled and after a brief struggle , gave up the ghost . |
| 2 | One of Mr Paull 's interests is dowsing and after a visit to the famous crop circle , he returned home with samples of the cereal from inside and outside the circle . |
| 3 | Charles rose and after a few mumbled words about thanks , and keeping in touch , and being cheerful , and seeing himself out , he left . |
| 4 | You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season . |
| 5 | So for various reasons slightly different sorts of detective fiction came to be written and after a while came to be acknowledged as viable in their own right . |
| 6 | Since then the demand for cotton has grown and after a trial range , they now produce more cotton than wool and have even added fancy cottons to their range . |
| 7 | Right , okay so if we put this one If we put hydrochloric acid and caustic soda together , they 'd start reacting and after a while it would all be finished . |
| 8 | Sneezing and fluent , bland coryza ; the mucous membranes of the nose may be swollen and after a day or two the coryza may extend to the larynx with a hard cough . |
| 9 | Wycliffe did not answer and after a pause Maurice went on : ‘ What will happen now ? ’ |
| 10 | It took all the courage he had to thrust his head and shoulders into the mouth of that entrance , but he closed his eyes and twisted and turned and after a time tumbled out into a great stone chamber , lit with a soft light of its own that dimmed the glitter of his shining key . |
| 11 | He turned and after a few seconds said : |
| 12 | From Cronin 's catch , Scotland chugged and after a delay , while referee Joel Dume peeled off bodies , Turnbull was rightly awarded the try . |
| 13 | Jill withdrew and after a sip or two of tea I began . |
| 14 | Many diets fail because they do not provide the variety of foods that the body craves and after a couple of enthusiastic days the willpower begins to weaken . |
| 15 | Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded , a despairing cry , a death cry . |
| 16 | THEY can do and have what they like and after a while it does n't mean anything to them . |
| 17 | Promotion for Mr Wilson followed and after a brief visit to Naples to tie up affairs he returned to London . |
| 18 | She stood quite still not knowing what to do and after a moment he pulled away , reached into his pocket for a handkerchief and wiped himself , his hand and hers . |
| 19 | He dialled and after a few rings a female voice answered . |
| 20 | After four hours of incubation with DMJ , no pre-Β chains were found and after a 12 hour incubation period , most of the Β 1 integrin complexes on the cel surface still contained the mature Β 1 chain but some the smaller pre-Β 1 chain ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 21 | He was arrested and after a trial before the Tribunal , all of whom he knew well , he was sentenced to a year in Peterhead Gaol . |
| 22 | Charles did n't respond and after a frozen pause , she collapsed into a chair and burst out crying . |
| 23 | Coleen was not going to be rushed and after a lot of thought she decided to go to stay with friends in England to think things over . |
| 24 | At the beginning of the third stage intra-EC exchange rates are to be fixed and after a relatively short period the ECU will replace member countries ' currencies as the Community 's sole currency . |
| 25 | The extra blankets were removed and after a bedbath his skin felt cooler . |
| 26 | He was respectful but unalarmed when the King appeared and after a moment 's silence he chose to laugh at the likeness and the revelation that they were distant cousins ; indeed , so little was Rassendyll impressed that he noted that the King 's mouth lacked ‘ something of the firmness ( or obstinacy ) which was to be gathered from my close-shutting lips ’ . |
| 27 | As the road leaves Clashnessie Bay , the hamlet of the same name is passed and after a further mile a side road turns off to the right and crosses the bare and windswept peninsula , the Ru Stoer , to a lighthouse where it ends at a parking place for cars . |
| 28 | Too stunned to be furious , Maggie sat and after a few seconds of close and silent scrutiny Devlin Parnham sat too , facing her across a magnificent Persian rug , with the fire banked as high as if it were mid-winter . |
| 29 | Her cancer , which had not even been mentioned during the hypnosis session , rapidly regressed and after a few weeks even all radiological evidence of it had disappeared . |
| 30 | Finally , from whatever defence line was established and after a long period of mobilization , Nato 's forces ( presumably mostly Anglo-American ) would launch the great counter-offensive . |