Example sentences of "she [vb past] after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I — I do n't know what you 're talking about , ’ she whispered after a moment . |
| 2 | Last night Clare 's parents were at her hospital bedside as she recovered after an operation on her horrific wounds . |
| 3 | Naturally there was only one more mention , she realised after a moment . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh dear ’ , said Theodora , as she gazed after the familiar vehicle . |
| 5 | ‘ No , ’ she agreed after a while . |
| 6 | ‘ Why do you think so ? ’ she asked after a while , as her initial disapproval was superseded by curiosity . |
| 7 | ‘ How do you feel now , Linton ? ’ she asked after a while . |
| 8 | ‘ Why did she finish with you ? ’ she asked after a moment . |
| 9 | ‘ Will my own things be ready tomorrow ? ’ she asked after a while . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll be able to work on your tan tomorrow , surf sweetie , ’ she shouted after the Daughter , ‘ but do n't hold your breath waiting for the tide to come in . ’ |
| 11 | Was it the phone call ? ’ she added after a moment , more sympathetically . |
| 12 | ‘ It will take a bit of getting used to , ’ she remarked slowly , ‘ although , ’ she added after a slight pause , ‘ it does make you look — ’ |
| 13 | She added after a pause : ‘ He 's dead . ’ |
| 14 | She added after a moment : ‘ I do know he was n't liked ; even as a boy he had no friends . ’ |
| 15 | Boyfriend Barry Pitt , himself an ex-policeman and the man she plans to marry , was at her bedside when she woke after an emergency six-hour operation . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're not serious , ’ she murmured after a moment . |
| 17 | ‘ We should never have come , ’ she muttered after a long silence , ‘ and if I had my way , we 'd leave here tomorrow . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , all right , ’ she muttered after a moment . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're right , ’ she muttered after a moment . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh — um — all sorts , ’ she muttered after a pause . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I do know , ’ she replied after a moment 's hesitation ; ‘ but I love him . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No , it 's not , actually , ’ she replied after a moment , and then added , with a spurt of defiance , in a swiftly acknowledged pathetic last-ditch attempt to salvage some pride , ‘ You see , the office is mine . ’ |
| 23 | She arrived after the majority of people who had run to the scene from the school premises . |
| 24 | Just as Marjorie stayed up all night while Lizzie was recovering from a womb infection , so Lizzie stayed by Marjorie 's bedside while she recuperated after a gallstone operation . |
| 25 | She returned after a ten year absence , this time as director of ACARTE , an arts education programme linked to the Gulbenkian 's Centre of Modern Art , consolidating the respect she held as one of Portugal 's cultural leaders . |
| 26 | ‘ No wind , ’ she repeated after a moment . |
| 27 | No , she decided after a short reflection . |
| 28 | It was a day for jeans and a T-shirt , she decided after a quick look at the sky — a mottled jigsaw of blue and white . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't really see what men see in women , ’ she confessed after a while . |
| 30 | A hot temper had perhaps helped fire her many activities , starting as artistic director of the Oxford Pilgrim Players , which she founded after a year as a dogsbody in a Norwich Theatre . |