Example sentences of "and [v-ing] after a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brother Winfrid , big and young and wholesome , was leaning on his spade at the edge of the vegetable patch beyond , and gazing after a diminutive figure that was just scuttling away round the corner of the box hedge towards the great court . |
| 2 | After a time teaching in a Scottish school , Fettes , the degree got him a fellowship in mathematics at his own college of Magdalene ; where he remained the rest of his long life — teaching mathematics , holding various college offices , going every week to Emmanuel Congregational chapel , and becoming after a time one of its deacons or church officers . |
| 3 | Modern houses have so many labour-saving devices that it is difficult for the person at home to have adequate exercise by doing chores , cooking , and looking after a family . |
| 4 | At any other time she might have appreciated the beauty of the morning , a perfect , brilliant , cloudless day , golden and enticing after a refreshing overnight rain . |
| 5 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 6 | Everyone coughed most of the time , they could n't tell the difference between coughing and breathing after a while , but his was a real lung curdler when it got going . |
| 7 | Glenn Hoddle says it was a big win and rewarding after a week in which they 've had to sell a player and have been troubled by lots of injuries … |
| 8 | THE Queen Mother was today said to be ‘ comfortable ’ and sleeping after a ‘ minor ’ operation to have an obstruction removed from her throat . |