Example sentences of "but after [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But after a time , as County Bank went for larger and larger transactions , Mr Wilson , who has a penchant for smaller companies , wanted to get involved in small development capital transactions and smaller management buy-outs . |
| 6 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 7 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 8 | But after a time the book fell from his hand . |
| 9 | But after a time the right person could tie you down . |