Example sentences of "[prep] all [det] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 After all that milk you look pretty sleepy .
2 After all that trauma I think I deserve this do you ?
3 I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all .
4 And after all that effort they chose the most obvious candidate — a man with experience of television and the BBC — James Wilkinson .
5 After all these statements he announces , ‘ If I were disposed to stir your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage , I should do Brutus and Cassius wrong for they are honourable men . ’
6 So now after all these years we are taking He Pito Whakaatu i Te Noho a Te Maori i Te Awa o Whanganui ( Scenes of Maori Life on The Whanganui River ) , made in 1921 , back to Koroniti .
7 After all these years she still could n't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger .
8 After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again .
9 Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour .
10 After all these years it had finally happened !
11 And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them .
12 But after all these years I still remember the Krooms .
13 After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game .
14 I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her .
15 After all these years I 'm definitely
16 ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’
17 After all these years you 'd think he 'd be careful . ’
18 The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible .
19 After all these years he was still afraid .
20 To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him .
21 It 'd better be after all those needles they stuck in me so I wo n't get beri-beri and co .
22 After all those years it was at last made clear to me why I had this fear .
23 I mean , after all those years it is difficult to take in .
24 After all this instrument-flying it was great to simply have the map and compass .
25 But if your ticket allows you to fly back from Lisbon or Oporto , after all this culture you could go walking in one of the national parks , explore the wine regions , or treat yourself to a spa ( try Termas de São Pedro and Caldas da Rainha , cheapest in Western Europe ) .
26 Oh , Silas — darling — after all this time it 's wonderful to see you again .
27 Cecilia sometimes wondered if this was the precursor of all that sex she seemed so fond of later on .
28 ‘ We 've always known what we did n't want our music to sound like , but we never realised that out of all that chaos we 'd sound so laid back . ’
29 When I fink of all that time 'e jus ' sat at the front door wiv 'is 'ead in 'is 'ands , I shudder .
30 In the midst of all this juggling we do n't want to lose any hours . ’
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