Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments he returned . |
| 2 | After a few moments he said calmly , ‘ Now , Jane , be sensible . |
| 3 | After a few moments he began walking , pausing once to look up at the grand facade of the Shelbourne . |
| 4 | After a few moments he realized they were flying on an interception course . |
| 5 | After a few minutes he heaved himself out of bed , but his leg let him down and he fell backwards . |
| 6 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 7 | After a few minutes he had spoken again . |
| 8 | I did so and after a few minutes he said , ‘ Good enough , now you can continue in English . ’ |
| 9 | After a few minutes he replaces it with something more conducive to conversation , the Neville Brothers ' ‘ Yellow Moon ’ . |
| 10 | After a few minutes he raised his head and was now sitting motionless , pale and haggard but controlled , while Iris , her eyes moist with sympathetic tears , stood silently and helplessly by . |
| 11 | After a few minutes he came back and locked the door behind him . |
| 12 | After a few minutes he burst into our room with a shocked look on his face . |
| 13 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
| 14 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 15 | After a few days he is well enough to travel and one of Leavitt 's Willys safari cars takes them home . |
| 16 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 17 | He became ill , and after a few days he died in my arms . |
| 18 | After a few steps he turned . |
| 19 | The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper . |
| 20 | After a few drinks he will reluctantly sell it to you as he 's a bit short of cash and you 're so obviously interested … |
| 21 | After a few rears he managed to move in a kind of canter holding his near-fore out in front of him , never once letting it touch the ground . |
| 22 | After a few seconds he looked like a Dark Age warlord in mid campaign , in mid mop-up , on mired mountaintop , taking a glazed breather before moving on to the women and children . |
| 23 | Luke had tensed as she touched him , and after a few seconds he flung her hand off , the violence of the gesture silencing her abruptly . |
| 24 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 25 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 26 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
| 27 | James faced such intractable problems that after a few months he nearly quit . |
| 28 | ‘ After a few weeks he told her he was going home , and asked her to go with him . |
| 29 | He was horrified that even for a few minutes he could seriously have contemplated such destructive stupidity . |
| 30 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |