Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER a two-and-a-half-year lull I fully expect my great friendship with Graham Gooch to be back in full swing on the tour to India . |
| 2 | After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 . |
| 3 | After a long silence I said , ‘ Please ask a maid to show me my bedroom . |
| 4 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 5 | After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair . |
| 6 | After a long time I said , " Do you want me to leave you alone ? " |
| 7 | After a fitful sleep I set off alone next morning in the welcome warmth of the sun to climb the higher of two small rock peaks rising to the east of the Panch Pokhari . |
| 8 | After a fruitless hour I decided to go on the stick . |
| 9 | After a little way I halted and looked back . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I would say that after a rotten beginning I 've had a good life — That 's not very helpful , is it ? ’ |
| 11 | After a short while I started to see an osteopath , which really helped to relieve the pain , but again only temporarily . |
| 12 | I still kept the idea of being a lawyer through studying at night school , but , after a short while I decided I was really going to follow up a boxing career . |
| 13 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
| 14 | You only , I , after a little while I began to get bored . |
| 15 | After a little consideration I decided to take the job on . |
| 16 | After a wonderful evening I said goodbye but she refused when I tried to tipper . |
| 17 | And after a speedy search I found the drawer where she kept all her gym knickers . ’ |
| 18 | After a troubled night I went to Government House next morning and said to HE that I was convinced that this would be a disastrous step and that if it was decided to take it I must resign on the spot and announce in public my reasons for doing so . |
| 19 | After a quick glance I was delighted to see that my arm was still there , so went off to sleep again , feeling very cheerful about the whole thing . |
| 20 | At the end of the summer I shall complete two years as the caretaker of Report ( the fulfilment of a verbal obligation I made in August 1968 ) . |
| 21 | If I was of a probing nature I would say there 's something worrying you . |
| 22 | The distinction between the meaning of the word ‘ agent ’ in the common law sense of ‘ special agent ’ and its meaning in what for the want of a better expression I will call its ‘ equitable sense ’ was not expressly pointed out until the judgment of the court was delivered by Slade L.J . |
| 23 | Anyway , since I do not seem to be the owner of a super-fit body I thought it best this year to enter an event that required the minimum of movement . |
| 24 | The memory was triggered by talk of a young woman I had met on one trip who showed me Dyrhólæy and the sea pinnacles of Reynisdrangar near Vik . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , all right , if I must tell you , it 's the hair of a young woman I was going to marry before I met you . ’ |
| 26 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 27 | I think we have , I think it 's done as a , as part of a new mortgage I think . |
| 28 | The value of a practical education I was to see strikingly illustrated on The Guardian . |
| 29 | The production cycle of a monthly magazine I once edited was over five weeks for features , news fared slightly better at two weeks , and these represent the time taken to get the magazine to the printer , not onto the newsagents shelves . |
| 30 | Well what do you know the guy that sings What Becomes of a Broken Heart I mean nobody can find him . |