Example sentences of "but after [adj] [noun pl] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it ended we moved out on to the palace balcony to watch a display of fireworks , the first to be given in the country ; but after two rockets had been fired something went wrong and the rest blew up . |
| 2 | I offered the booklet to GHQ , Simla , but after two months had had no reply . |
| 3 | It shows that oral treatment with a standard dose of oestrogen not only prevents bone loss but after two years produced a significant improvement in bone density . |
| 4 | Nicholas 's nephew Thomas Collett , a barrister , and his wife came to Little Gidding in 1628 but after two years found that they had no vocation for its kind of life and returned to London . |
| 5 | I began to enumerate , but after three operations had been mentioned the doctor said , ‘ Oh yes , yes , yes ! ’ and wrote quickly on his pad . |
| 6 | Endill expected to bump into him again soon , but after several weeks had seen nothing of him and concluded he had finally found a way out . |