Example sentences of "but after [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after a while the Yugoslav government took them over , and converted them into agreements to supply oil . |
| 2 | They were very sympathetic but after a while the tension began to build with ever-increasing rows . |
| 3 | But after a while the Zionists got impatient for ‘ Brits Out ’ so they started a ‘ Kill the British ’ campaign . |
| 4 | But after a while the White Rabbit came past again , looking for his white gloves and his fan . |
| 5 | At first Dr Jaffery told more Mullah Nasir-ud-Din stories , but after a while the conversation became more serious . |
| 6 | But after a while the brain gym produces a sense of slipping away , while flashing colours play like a beautiful slow-motion firework display before your eyes . |
| 7 | But after a while the chaste quality of their relationship grew irksome . |
| 8 | Roland 's stag night was planned the same Saturday but after a week the best man realized that he was going to be skiing then ! oops . |
| 9 | There was no answer , but after a moment the scratching was repeated . |
| 10 | At first this was merely the usual paranoid rumour inevitable under a ruthless regime where informers abounded , but after a time a more imaginative version emerged . |
| 11 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 12 | As it was no longer raining they had not taken shelter in any of the caves , but after a time the thin man out of sheer restlessness looked into the nearest and came out carrying a sack . |
| 13 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 14 | But after a time the book fell from his hand . |
| 15 | But after a time the right person could tie you down . |
| 16 | But after the Restoration the government ceased to interfere with the enclosure of open field by private landlords , and the pace of change quickened sharply . |
| 17 | In the case of a limited number of Old English or Anglo-Saxon bynames these took such forms as at Dentune , on Lundye , of Wommerstone , in Mapeldre , but after the Conquest the prefix became , almost without exception , the preposition de ( of or from ) , it mattering not whether the place was in France or England . |
| 18 | But after the interval the striker pulled up with a hamstring strain , signalled to the bench to come off — and then gave the ball away and set up Stuttgart 's vital opening goal . |
| 19 | She waited a long time in a small office , but after an hour a policeman came into the room . |