Example sentences of "but after a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |
| 2 | ‘ I was cold and wet by this time , but after a tour of inspection I found the house was deserted . |
| 3 | The rift between CART and USAC widened when the latter refused CART racing teams entry to the 1979 Indianapolis 500 , but after a court ruling they were reinstated . |
| 4 | Dexter was used to the superintendent 's mannerisms but after a second or two , Blanche caught Jane Pargeter 's look of puzzlement , and the detective smiled apologetically . |
| 5 | He too listened closely to the arguments in the morning , but after a pub lunch with his staff , he did not return for the afternoon evidence . |
| 6 | ‘ But after a fortnight Stuart ( Adamson ) rang me up and suggested we get back together again and give it another go , I rang Tony ( Butler ) and we took it from there . ’ |
| 7 | Officials were trying to move them but after a word with our security people , we allowed them to stay . |
| 8 | Forty minutes was enough , but after a shower and a breakfast of fruit and cups of tea I felt very sprightly and strolled out to the row of shops nearby . |
| 9 | But after a call to ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey he settled on an £850 fine . |
| 10 | Though he was an adequate mariner , he was by no means an expert fisherman , being the sort of man who makes more conversation than profit from his catches ; but after a trip across to Plymouth early in the new year , he returned looking exceedingly pleased with himself , dressed in finer clothes than were often seen on the Polruan side of the Fowey , and full of the news that he intended to commission John Knollys to build him a bark of a hundred tons . |
| 11 | ' The initial shock was distressing , but after a night 's sleep , nature 's chemistry had wrought its miracle and Belinda fell completely in love with her daughter . |
| 12 | But after a bit I started thinking . |
| 13 | His back was cured within a couple of weeks — not , it turns out , as a result of the acupuncture but after a bit of dancing while on holiday . |
| 14 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 15 | In the light of kitchen she sat Maggie down and started to brush gently at her shoulders , but after a minute or so she said , |
| 16 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |
| 17 | But after a minute he let his hands drop and picked at the rubbish in the bin . |
| 18 | But after a minute he put her away and started the engine . |
| 19 | He made no further comment about Caroline but after a minute 's silence he said : 'Not a particularly successful dinner party . ’ |
| 20 | She looked a trifle dazed and who could blame her , but after a minute or so she was on her feet again and tottering back towards the playground . |
| 21 | Slobbered a little , but after a minute |
| 22 | Once these images must have excited lust — enough to make someone take the trouble to cut them out and stick them up on the wall ; but after a day or two , or a week or two , the pictures had ceased to arouse , they had become familiar — faded and tattered and oil-stained , almost indistinguishable from the dirt and debris of the rest of the factory . |
| 23 | But after a day of deliberation , the jury reached a unanimous Guilty verdict . |
| 24 | But after a day of submissions , in private , by lawyers acting for the girl , her parents and the mother of the 18-year-old boyfriend , the judge told the Press in open court that the girl 's mother had instituted ward-of-court proceedings in relation to her daughter . |
| 25 | I began a slow jog , but after a quarter of a mile , it seemed that my feet had gained weight and that somebody was sitting on my chest . |
| 26 | At first , after their early fights , Phoebe would work on making peace , leave the women to be with him , offer herself in ever more elaborate rituals , but after a while repetition made this boring . |
| 27 | It was just a few at first , but after a while it got more and more till it 's quite crowded now . |
| 28 | He may be shy at first , but after a while he will get over that : he is not half so shy as he was , of course not . |
| 29 | But after a while , the roads on his map began to criss-cross each other in a crazy fashion and it became clear that he had forgotten the geography of his land . |
| 30 | But after a while his father stopped him to say he was not singing what he had been taught . |