Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After a struggle the creature stopped breathing . |
| 3 | After a mile the path turned sharply south and the ravine opened into a shallow cup-like depression three or four acres in extent . |
| 4 | After a while the person learns to wake whenever his or her bladder becomes uncomfortably full . |
| 5 | After a while the skin of the pupa splits open , and the fully-formed adult insect ( or imago ) emerges and tunnels its way out of the gall . |
| 6 | After a while the chairman added , ‘ Surely we do more than deal with absconding ? |
| 7 | After a while the pumping of his heart began to slow down . |
| 8 | After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ? |
| 9 | After a while the man stood up . |
| 10 | ‘ After a while the sun beat down upon the mist and filled it with light and warmth , and a wind blew and the mist thinned and cleared . |
| 11 | After a while the lieutenant stopped things . |
| 12 | But after a while the brain gym produces a sense of slipping away , while flashing colours play like a beautiful slow-motion firework display before your eyes . |
| 13 | After a while the road ran out and there was nothing in the bleak landscape but loose boulders , rocks , yaks and wild asses . |
| 14 | After a while the conversation turned to a friend 's plans to marry an American girl . |
| 15 | At first Dr Jaffery told more Mullah Nasir-ud-Din stories , but after a while the conversation became more serious . |
| 16 | After a while the Marshal climbed the stairs in the hope of getting an idea of what was going on . |
| 17 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 18 | They were very sympathetic but after a while the tension began to build with ever-increasing rows . |
| 19 | After a while the Sword Masters of Hoeth began to investigate the cult and report their findings back to the White Tower . |
| 20 | Apparently the Lorrimores were still safely with us as he came back presently without haste or alarm , and after a while the train made its usual unobtrusive departure westwards . |
| 21 | So after a while the wolf became bored , and decided to go and catch a little pig for his supper . |
| 22 | After a while the captain , much calmer , took Selkirk and Corbett down to his cabin under the fo'castle , a small , dingy room smelling of tar and salt , and containing a simple cot bed , trunk , table and a number of stools . |
| 23 | After a while the bag of shoes came up , then two of the men , then a pair of sea boots , floating soles upwards . |
| 24 | and then after a while the acceleration reduces ? |
| 25 | After a while the salt and the moisture from the beans forms a powerful brine that perfectly preserves the beans . |
| 26 | After a while the pain of what had happened to her went away . |
| 27 | Tallis moved swiftly through this place of forest shrines , and after a while the nature of the wood changed again . |
| 28 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 29 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 30 | The store manager said that core staff motivation was a problem because after a while the job becomes highly repetitive . |