Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] a few [noun pl] later " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bella returned a few moments later , carrying her drink in one hand and a lighted cigarette in the other . |
| 2 | Melissa drove a pale and silent Rose back to the auberge , and Dora followed a few minutes later . |
| 3 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
| 4 | When Louis died a few months later , Thibaut aligned with a league of dissident barons who opposed the regent of France , Louis 's widow Blanche of Castile , but he soon abandoned the barons and reconciled himself with Blanche . |
| 5 | Gene landed a few days later and in July Joe went out with reinforcements . |
| 6 | They were still at the window when Timothy Gedge appeared a few minutes later . |
| 7 | Their destination , Sandy discovered a few minutes later , was the Liston Hall boat house . |
| 8 | Ib 's Club was similar to the others she 'd visited , but more so , Gina decided a few minutes later as wearily she followed Rune into its depths : deeper , darker , more packed , the music more rawly evocative . |
| 9 | In 1752 Horace Walpole instructed his brother , Ned , to collect tea seed ; Gilbert White came a few years later to discuss difficulties over growing melons at Selborne ; and Charles Hatton selected two pots of passion flower , ‘ lusty and strong ’ in April 1760 . |
| 10 | The effect , Merrill noticed a few moments later , had been carried into the interior . |
| 11 | John returned a few years later , but he was now an old man and the moving spirit seems to have been his daughter Virginia , who carried out experiments in the breeding of silkworms at Little Gidding for the benefit of the American colony . |