Example sentences of "[noun sg] and after a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He married late in life but in 1833 his wife died in childbirth , the baby also dying ; and about two years after this tragedy and after a series of professional reverses , notably the discovery of defective work at Sherborne House , which led to a negligence award against him , he gave up architectural practice . |
| 2 | She turned abruptly into the fitting-room and after a very short time reappeared , looking as perfect as if she had spent hours dressing instead of minutes . |
| 3 | I even thought of going off to Australia , but I re-sat my exams , went back to college and after a bit of nightclubbing eventually got into the gym just to get fit again . |
| 4 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 5 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 6 | Later we tried wire netting over the sluice and then mesh screens which rested each side and after a heavy snowfall collapsed into it , unable to bear the weight . |
| 7 | He emptied his flagon and after a minute 's hesitation she took it over to the table to refill it . |
| 8 | Chairman the , the mechanism is well practised and widely known it starts with the draft two two B in the January the Committee and after a period of about five to six months ' consultation within which the board programme of work of all capitalists are listed and put out to the community for response through their elected organization as to acceptability , five points of detail who were at relatively hirer one man to speak |
| 9 | Emily picked up the knife from the desk and inserted it between the top of the drawer and the desk and after a struggle , the drawer burst open . |
| 10 | Late afternoon and after a brief nap at home in Edinburgh , Frank McBride , the indefatigable chauffeur who will have driven Mr Smith more than 10,000 miles by the end of the campaign , brought his master to Stirling . |
| 11 | This is , of course , a question which the HMI team , in a brief 17 pages of text and after a seven-day visit , can hardly address ; and to do them justice they do not attempt to do so . |
| 12 | God knows — I shall make every effort to write to you of course , but I am such a bad writer and after a while it begins to be very difficult to write the essence of one 's personality and atmosphere on paper . |
| 13 | Eventually James Wyllie married Mrs. Kay 's sister and after a few years the Wyllie family took over the firm , retaining the name , Andrew Kay & Company . |
| 14 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |
| 15 | He said it was quieter in there , but I could n't see the lay-by from his room and after a bit I went outside . |
| 16 | He swung out of the room and after a scared glance in Craig 's direction , Cummings followed him . |
| 17 | I phoned the Packard Bell hotline and after a couple of days ' wait they were very helpful . |
| 18 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
| 19 | Holden battered the free-kick against the wall and after a scramble the ball fell to Henry , who struck a low shot from more than 30 yards past Lukic . |
| 20 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 21 | I was visiting Cobham with a friend and after a look around we called into the Ship public house for refreshment . |
| 22 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 23 | To try and generate some more interest in aviation we looked into starting a project that was relevant to the area and after a lot of research we came up with a Flying Flea . |
| 24 | She dived into a pile of newspapers which lay in an untidy stack beneath her chair and after a short search , triumphantly produced a neatly folded paper which she handed to Edwards . |
| 25 | Her husband began to complain of headaches and lethargy and after a period of investigation in hospital it was discovered that he had a malignant cerebral tumour . |
| 26 | The weather was fine this morning and after a full English breakfast , Kenneth accompanied me on the leisurely stroll to the theatre . |
| 27 | We had made an early start that morning and after a long stiff climb up a bare hillside entered a forest of wild olives and massive juniper trees resembling cedars , many of them festooned with lichen . |
| 28 | Equally impressive at the Morrison Centre were Ken Bousfield , Ken MacMaster , John Lynch and skip Alan Moore who conceded only eight singles while collecting a string of twos and threes at the start and after a strong finish to register 23 shots in all . |
| 29 | He pointed to the green roll and after a pause to the navy . |
| 30 | Hari knocked on the door and after a time it was opened by an elderly lady who stared down at her with a frown . |