Example sentences of "after a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few thrusting minutes Edward gave a strangled cry that seemed to come from deep in his throat and jerked out of her . |
| 2 | AFTER A FEW HOT SUMMERS , LIGHTWEIGHT , POLYCOTTON CLOTHING HAS COME INTO ITS OWN . |
| 3 | However , after a few hurried calls from Information Officer David Curry permission was granted for club members and their families to take the tour bus route at a slightly slower pace . |
| 4 | The occupying Japanese forces had apparently been so terrified by the Toraja that after a few peremptory massacres they had left them to themselves . |
| 5 | After a few stunned seconds plump arms enfolded her . |
| 6 | After a few reasonable take-offs and landings , said those dreaded words feared by all trainee pilots , ‘ Do you think you can manage on your own for one circuit ? ’ , and promptly got out of the plane , leaving me to do the usual pre take-off checks , taxi to the beginning of the runway and nervously accelerate down the runway to do a fair take-off . |
| 7 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 8 | You' 11 find that after a few accumulated hours of stunting , one handle will have to be held back a little from the other to hold the overhead soaring position of the kite . |
| 9 | If , after a few thousand years of reduced temperature the trend reverses and average temperatures creep up again , the animals will come under the influence of a new selection pressure , and will be pushed towards growing shorter coats again . |
| 10 | After a few heart-stopping moments the old engine coughed into life , and he managed to accelerate the loaded vehicle through the flames out to safety . |
| 11 | After a few hundred metres the pleasure overcame the apprehension . |
| 12 | After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles . |
| 13 | Proving the truth of his words , after a few hundred yards the gondola drew alongside some steps . |
| 14 | Erika sat on her bed smiling and when , after a few vigorous minutes , her mother announced that all was ready , she burst out laughing . |
| 15 | After a few more games we stopped for lunch and went over the morning 's action . |
| 16 | After a few more minutes she became restless , and stood up again , her eyes searching the slope of the hillside and the valley below , trying to determine whether some small movement down there was a man on horseback or merely a trick of her imagination . |
| 17 | But after a few more minutes lie again became puzzled and tapped once more . |
| 18 | After a few more minutes he mumbled , ‘ You frightened ? ’ |
| 19 | After a few more days of subtle hints — ‘ If you 're a smoker , with young children , over a certain age , in a high-stress job , it 's lethal not to have a medical ’ — ‘ Oh all right ! |
| 20 | The road continues on a switchback course , reaching more open ground with wider views and , after a few more miles that seem to be leading nowhere , arrives at the top of a hill where the cottages of Arnisdale are suddenly revealed around a bay ahead . |
| 21 | After a few fat years , store security tightened up and Boo ended up doing a stint in the big house . |
| 22 | After a few embarrassed minutes the mourners slowly departed , leaving Flaubert jammed into the ground at an oblique angle . |
| 23 | There is an idea which creeps in , particularly among younger musicians , that after a few hit records they are somehow better than other people . |
| 24 | After a few false starts he found his rhythm and everyone began to clap in time . |
| 25 | After a few false starts a whole vocabulary and syntax that he never knew he knew begins to well up from his old-fashioned black portable . |
| 26 | Like all the other young men I had imagined that after a few brisk preliminaries I would be sitting in an aeroplane , learning to fly , but it turned out that this was so far in the future that it was hardly mentioned . |
| 27 | After a few quick puffs the man turns and stubs out this cigarette too , three-quarters wasted . |
| 28 | An adult , presumably the female , came close inshore , followed by two young ones , and she seemed to be teaching them to fish , but after a few splashing sallies with no success she gave up , and dived away . |
| 29 | After a few rosy years teaching in the rural school I got a job on a city estate . |