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Example sentences for "said after"

  • The Deacon read it and rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "That's a different thing," he said after a while.

  • That is the story of the dying lion," he said after a while.

  • Just the same," he said after a pause, "it must be very nice to have a lamp to rub, so that you may have so many things you really want.

  • A natural question, I am sure," he said after a pause.

  • Poetry, like cucumbers, is an acquired taste," he said after a while.

  • Yes, I think I have," he said after a pause.

  • Do come,' he said after a pause, during which he looked at her eagerly.

  • The impetuousness of the youth had struck through the fat nonchalance of the man, and he said after a pause: 'Yes, I suppose I do owe it to her.

  • Doctor," he said after a pause, "I've some good news for you also.

  • I suppose you don't need to," he said after a pause.

  • Go on," he said after a pause; and Samuel told how he had saved young Lockman's life, and what happened afterwards.

  • Did you ever notice,' he said after a few minutes again, 'how different the clouds of this season are from those of other times of the year?

  • Lenora," he said after awhile, "it is impossible for me to say anything for the moment.

  • I did not know that you were in Brussels," he said after awhile, and when he had led her to a seat in the window, and sat down beside her.

  • Perhaps," he said after a considerable search for his particular sack, "the thread has been accidentally drawn out and lost.

  • Perhaps," he said after a moment's silence, "your Uncle can help us out.

  • That," he said after a moment of close scrutiny, "is the Arion.

  • I am obliged to you," he said after a pause.

  • It's about time I was off," he said after a bit, and there was a queer constraint in his voice.

  • I am afraid I can't tell you, Easterton," I said after an instant's hesitation.

  • The rain has stopped, carino," he said after sunset; "and this is the only chance we shall have to see the lake.

  • Gemma, dear," he said after a moment; "are you going to let that miserable business haunt you all your life?

  • The trouble is," I said after a moment, "that Perry and Tom would like to run modern business on the principle of a charitable institution.

  • I think a sight of her, Bob," he said after he had shaken both of Bob's hands and brushed his own eyes with his coat sleeve.

  • So Mademoiselle is married," I said after a pause.

  • That is a different matter," he said after a moment.

  • The Countess is not ill, I trust," he said after a pause.

  • But my helping you was, after all, only for a selfish purpose," I said after a pause.

  • I suppose," he said after a time, "that they would put more than one dot in the same circle, and the dots would be read in the same way they are now.

  • This message can mean nothing else," he said after a little.

  • I can make nothing of it," he said after a time.

  • Go now," he said after a while, "and speak with him, telling him that I await him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broad smile; exercise their; said aunty; said coolly; said eagerly; said excitedly; said good; said his; said hoarsely; said just; said laughing; said once; said river; said sadly; said something; said steadily; said the little lady; said the little rabbit; said the old lady; said the poor woman; said the young doctor; said the young gentleman; said town; said very; strange fellow; would not live alway