Example sentences of "[verb] and after [art] few " 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 .
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