Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun sg] after [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary Bunn , hitting the keys harder and harder for Jesus , lifted herself off the stool and brought her bum down with a crash as she laid down chord after chord . |
| 2 | The silence continued long , while Harry picked up and laid down tool after tool , smoothed a finger-nail along the chisels , hefted the mallets , turning and twisting like a caged animal with the fury of his longing and the rigidity of his pride . |
| 3 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 4 | How must it be to work here day after day , month after month , knowing there was no end to it ? |
| 5 | Isabel Lavender began to smooth down finger after finger of her gardening gloves , intent upon maintaining appearances , even through domestic tasks . |
| 6 | And the job there was to pick up tray after tray of tiny little sprigs about that high in little tiny paper cardboard boxes . |
| 7 | Not content with his careful appraisal of eye , he produced from his rather torn and shabby coat , a small movie camera and proceeded to set up shot after shot of a narrow-gauge narrative . |
| 8 | And because people knew he was going to do so , they came back night after night to see how things were changed . |
| 9 | God , he 's nice , and he really works at his polo , every evening , lining up ball after ball , and practising penalties . |
| 10 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
| 11 | This promise he deliberately and ruthlessly broke , going out night after night in 1917 and hurling his load , punches , matrices and type , into the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge , 2 on one occasion missing a barge by inches . |
| 12 | You are old , you are bed-ridden , the work falls to me , you do not think or care , lying here day after day , waited upon and given in to , without worries or anxiety . |
| 13 | And there , sure enough , was the interior of old Jean Damiani 's soap factory with a row of moustachioed Palestinians piling up bar after bar of soap around the walls . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The reception , professional way the meetings are organised and the help we receive from the local authority makes us return here time after time . |
| 15 | Some dragged on for months , getting nowhere day after day , she said . |
| 16 | Later John Smith made Messrs Lamont and Major visibly squirm and reduced the Tory back-benchers to silence when he read out quote after quote from the Conservatives pledging not to extend VAT . |
| 17 | There was a vast murmur of duck-talk on the lake as he made out group after group , some in the water and some on the banks , busy and preoccupied with feeding . |
| 18 | The newer breed of botanist was prepared to go back year after year , recording on a more methodical basis , with a longer term view to writing a Flora based upon intimate knowledge of the Outer Hebrides . |
| 19 | Will you agree that we do that , rather than have the same thing coming up time after time . |
| 20 | Her name , she says , is Elena ; her dark eyes gleam with gay desperation , an impression fuelled by the way she tosses back glass after glass of sparkling wine . |
| 21 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 22 | They sit here day after day , gazing out into the middle distance , letting their problems stockpile to nothing more complicated than yet another sunny day on the porch of a listing old house . |
| 23 | Grow species tulips , such as T tarda , if you want to leave bulbs in the ground to flower reliably year after year . |
| 24 | Further , since sets of genes stay together generation after generation , there is no ‘ conflict of interest ’ between the genes in an organism . |
| 25 | Like being terribly thirsty and gulping down glass after glass of water . |
| 26 | The boys went out night after night and some did not return . |
| 27 | Once you have found such a spot you can go back time after time and take fish . |
| 28 | Although my efforts would make Mr Walt Disney cringe , they were popular enough with the children of Navan , and I was soon handing out picture after picture — all free , courtesy of Navan shopping centre . |
| 29 | I 've cut out coffee after lunch and almost do n't smoke at all . |
| 30 | But Kirillov has himself pointedly ruled out life after death : ‘ the laws of nature did not spare even Him ’ — Jesus , that is . |