Example sentences of "[adv] and after a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did so and after a few minutes he said , ‘ Good enough , now you can continue in English . ’ |
| 2 | Under the umbrella they had to walk very close together and after a while he took her hand and hooked it through his arm . |
| 3 | The audience was n't going to let Del Amitri get away and after a couple of minutes to catch their breath back , Justin and company returned to give us some more . |
| 4 | But even then , they can not avoid it altogether and after a while , their digestions can no longer tolerate it . |
| 5 | We got up at 5.00am and after a delicious breakfast we got underway to meet our van . |
| 6 | It sold out quickly and after a repressing it reached number four in the independent chart published in Melody Maker . |
| 7 | The strange , rank smell was stronger than ever and after a few moments they all heard a heavy movement close by . |
| 8 | Minton 's generous hospitality was extended to many , to Robert Frame , Leslie Todd-Reeve and his wife , Nessie Dunsmuir and her sister who lodged for several weeks at Hamilton Terrace before and after a major operation . |
| 9 | in the top flat , they , they were rehoused in a flat in a block of mansion flats and when I came out of the army this was the accommodation I found available , er for me and I objected strongly and after a great deal of fuss erm the Islington Borough Council 's Housing Department found us rooms on the first floor in a Victoria Victorian villa in Penventon Gardens , which erm , were comfortable |
| 10 | Jeff , who drove a lead car , explained : ‘ We knew there was a building site there and after a few dollars had changed hands the construction workers used one of their cranes to transfer the three-and-a-halfton generator . ’ |
| 11 | He never said anything else and after a minute Maggie got her breath back and asked , |
| 12 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 13 | He stood back and glimpsed a face at an upstair window so he knocked again and after a delay he heard someone coming down the stairs . |
| 14 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |