Example sentences of "[pers pn] said after a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A good few thousand , ’ I said after a brief pause for calculation . |
| 2 | ‘ You feel safer at home than what you do further away , ’ she said after a long silence , addressing no one . |
| 3 | Then she said after a small silence , ‘ Alex 's flat is too minute for two . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I get homesick all the time , ’ she said after a short visit home to see her brother Lawrence , a joiner in Derry . |
| 5 | ‘ I — have n't decided yet , ’ she said after a brief hesitation . |
| 6 | ‘ OK , Randy , ’ he said after a long pause . |
| 7 | ‘ Exactly that , ’ he said after a long pause . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're wanted , Travis , ’ he said after a brief conversation . |
| 9 | ‘ But do ye really think , ’ he said after a short pause , ‘ it 's wise to allow a young person to make a decision of that sort ? |