Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and after a " in BNC.

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1 None of the colony would talk about warm and after a while she stopped asking .
2 ‘ Dilly ’ , as he was called , went to Summer Fields , Oxford , at the age of eleven and after a year was first in his election to Eton .
3 Lawrence bowling the last ball of this over and it 's a bouncer and gets underneath it , he 's six , DaSilva is eighteen , it 's a hundred and eighteen for three and after a word for big it will be Brian Johnston .
4 These can be thought of as two separate systems with the non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts forming the core authorities ( see fig. 3.1 ) The first local councils under the 1972 Act were elected in 1973 and after a year of preparation , took office formally on the first day of April 1974 .
5 Marsden batted first but was dismissed for 15 and after a short rest Sampson went in to bat .
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