Example sentences of "[verb] and after [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Charles rose and after a few mumbled words about thanks , and keeping in touch , and being cheerful , and seeing himself out , he left . |
2 | He turned and after a few seconds said : |
3 | Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded , a despairing cry , a death cry . |
4 | He dialled and after a few rings a female voice answered . |
5 | Too stunned to be furious , Maggie sat and after a few seconds of close and silent scrutiny Devlin Parnham sat too , facing her across a magnificent Persian rug , with the fire banked as high as if it were mid-winter . |
6 | Her cancer , which had not even been mentioned during the hypnosis session , rapidly regressed and after a few weeks even all radiological evidence of it had disappeared . |