Example sentences of "[coord] after a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after a time they accepted it as their vocation to be childless . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Here one problem of panels becomes clear : with all the best intentions , panel members may be considered to be specially interested in volunteering for , or accepting an invitation to join , a certain panel , and after a time the panel member can become rather too self-conscious and sophisticated . |
| 4 | Hari knocked on the door and after a time it was opened by an elderly lady who stared down at her with a frown . |
| 5 | " And after a time , " went on Dandelion , " after a time the grass began to grow thin and the rabbits wandered everywhere , multiplying and eating as they went . |
| 6 | But the scent was old and after a time they went on again . |
| 7 | They were stopped outside the gate , of course , and after a time the sergeant on guard came out and spoke to them and they began an argument and it got very heated because this sergeant thought that the Americans were like knights of old rescuing a damsel in distress . |
| 8 | I said hello , and after a time she remembered who I was . |
| 9 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 10 | To begin with Charlie was not quite sure what was happening , but he liked the sensation so much that he just continued to hold on to her , and after a time even began to press his tongue against hers . |
| 11 | and after a time you know you say ha and you just because the lawyer for the other side always goes for the very worst scenario |
| 12 | A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact . |
| 13 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 14 | At first this was merely the usual paranoid rumour inevitable under a ruthless regime where informers abounded , but after a time a more imaginative version emerged . |
| 15 | As it was no longer raining they had not taken shelter in any of the caves , but after a time the thin man out of sheer restlessness looked into the nearest and came out carrying a sack . |
| 16 | But after a time , as County Bank went for larger and larger transactions , Mr Wilson , who has a penchant for smaller companies , wanted to get involved in small development capital transactions and smaller management buy-outs . |
| 17 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 18 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 19 | But after a time the book fell from his hand . |
| 20 | But after a time the right person could tie you down . |