The city inched rather than slid towards capture and after a while the shelling all but paralysed our movement. |
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You may need to empty the lint catcher if the water drains very slowly after a while. |
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One old-time guard tells me that after a while the Air Force would organise a food drop to the stranded train. |
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During dinner he sat and sulked and after a while he wandered off by himself. |
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I like that kind of stuff better than seeing all the great castles and cathedrals, which can after a while get a little ho-hum. |
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Eating out every night wasn't on, both for financial reasons and because even the best restaurant food palls after a while. |
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The concept starts to flag after a while, as Max's smooth chat palls before repeated atrocities. |
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There is, of course, a limit to how gripping a narration of running up a stairway can be, and this over-descriptive style palls after a while. |
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Those kinds of things shift your perspectives and, whatever, you gotta decide after a while. |
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I may not be entirely serious here, and the Old Cricketer's writing style can boom and parp after a while, but one thing is heartfelt. |
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She has a good vocal range, but her voice lacks passion and has a nasal quality that grates after a while. |
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I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. |
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The modernist whiteness of the walls, a classic ploy for downplaying the surface, becomes painful after a while. |
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He became closely enamored with the area and after a while was sufficiently charmed with the winery. |
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Repression after a while does not need imposition by the regime, it is more effective when self-imposed through fear, resignation and apathy. |
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It got depressing after a while, with the realisation that you're completely disposable and not being hired for any skills. |
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However, these converters do not last for very long, and so after a while cars will be polluting without the driver even knowing! |
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All I know is my head hurt real bad during that time and then it was gone after a while. |
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We were both kinda shy, I think we always are the first time we see each other after a while. |
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I have to say that when you are told that you are worthless again and again, you do start to believe it after a while. |
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I always find it kind of disappointing that you stop seeing his stuff after a while. |
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His rousing words were delivered with such zeal that after a while you even began to believe that he believed what he was saying. |
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Most of these excerpts are as good as anything in the finished film, but Zamm's remarks get repetitious after a while. |
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Like the ticking of an old clock or a leaky water tap, you get so used to it that it simply seems to disappear after a while. |
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It veers slightly to one side, so I end up with my left shoulder aching after a while of constantly having to correct it. |
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Rain battered, lightning flashed and thunder rolled, but everyone nodded into a peaceful sleep after a while. |
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First, an ointment containing light-sensitive substances is rubbed on the skin, and after a while a lamp is directed towards the area. |
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Then, after a while, the storm troopers advanced without warning and threw tear gas canisters into the sitting crowd. |
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It's all very well roughing it in your twenties, but it tends to lose its novelty after a while. |
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Hunger was easily assuaged by chips, but after a while, I developed a taste for more illicit pleasures. |
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The sheer physical effort wasn't bad, but after a while the psychological pressure began to mount. |
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Camera control also takes some getting used to but after a while I found it intuitive. |
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Also, his obsession with time and punctuality does get old after a while, at times threatening to turn the character into a one-trick pony. |
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The referee's nerve, eyesight or ability to keep up with the play lets him down after a while. |
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You do though, after a while, start to wonder exactly where this marvellous country is. |
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Alas, after a while, the sight of board shorts, singlets, jandals and sunglasses will make you wince. |
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She wallowed in self-pity for what seemed like hours, but after a while that sadness turned to anger. |
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I had to leave her after a few minutes, otherwise I would have cried meself, but she settled down after a while. |
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People were playing Beer Pong and Flip Cup and other such shenanigans when we arrived but after a while the party moved inside. |
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The police often chase the young window washers away from their junction, but after a while they return. |
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It detracts a little from the level of realism but after a while you forget about it. |
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I found the music to be very inspiring but after a while, I just tuned it out as I'd heard it so much before. |
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The rim snakes and twists and after a while it's easy to lose your bearings in an unfamiliar place. |
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The Zetra's are pretty uncomfy after a while, as the edges of the cuff do tend to dig in. |
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My feet did begin to hurt some after a while, but I do think that is normal when adjusting to new skates. |
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And I too got the knack after a while, looking at the way they dress, even if they're not wearing the jilbab or the kopiah. |
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So after a while, you sort of get used to all of the little things on the car. |
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But after a while, they got used to snacking on fruit rather than crisps and having sandwiches at lunchtime rather than chips. |
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I covered a lot of pirate radio in Austin but my editor told me to cut that after a while. |
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Fair enough, she has good cause, but it really got on my nerves after a while. |
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It's a sloppy production, including neither an index nor a table of contents, and after a while his breezy style grates. |
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Smiling at yet another Brit tourist who hasn't quite worked out what the coins are worth must be trying after a while. |
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The whole thing must be so formulaic, so routine, it's probably hard to even pretend to be enjoying it after a while. |
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I started to be regular waiter there, I bused my own tables so I didn't have to split tips and after a while I used to even cook, now and then. |
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In fact, you barely notice after a while, since you're so absorbed in Eddie's arcane ramblings. |
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And after a while, after the novelty has worn off and the newness stales, this once secret entity becomes common, and reluctantly accepted. |
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The bright green shrubs and rainbows of flowers all looked the same after a while. |
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He shrugged off that thought after a while when his handphone started ringing in his pocket. |
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At first, her motions were subtle enough to go unfelt, but after a while, as her boredom steadily increased, Mark started stirring uneasily in his sleep. |
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But after a while, the edit wars ended, and the article no longer had Einstein going to Albania. |
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Are you finding that touring can wear you out after a while? |
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But after a while that didn't stop you from ravening down the poison. |
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It took a little getting used to, but after a while, I realised I was back in Singapore, where it doesn't matter if phones ring or SMS alerts beep loudly on the trains. |
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That last one got a little tedious after a while, because after the suspect has clearly surrendered, why should I have to tell my team to put the zipcuffs on him? |
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My search was fruitless, and after a while I gave it up and came back to find Mr. Wilde squatting on his high chair by the table. |
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Anyway, the shouters and screamers lose their impact after a while. |
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Even the matey chattiness wore through my cynical armour after a while. |
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The dark energy might decay after a while to a negative value, creating an inward acceleration that leads to a big crunch before things get so dull. |
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Very patiently we pointed out to Vance what his share in the affair would be, and he seemed to understand after a while. |
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A big advantage of the snake fences was that they could be moved but I guess after a while they were considered a waste of space and got converted to straight rail like ours. |
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After a while, she goes and after a while Harley calms down again. |
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The sweetness gets too much after more than a couple of swigs, and after a while it starts to produce a build-up of gas which eventually squirts right up your nose. |
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I worked on films one after the other and after a while they all sort of blend together and you don't get the feeling it was a classic period in your life. |
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And, therefore, it gains the sort of magical patina after a while. |
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But, the pistol is 62 years old, and metal fatigue sets in after a while. |
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It wears thin after a while, but the pace is kept up by Vaguen's malaprops, slightly off analogies and clever reworking of typical pop psychology dogma. |
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That is, the first time you see the roommates French kiss or snuggle, it's fun to watch, but after a while you just want the losers to get married. |
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This neat device allows a smooth transition between the numerous scenes but the curtain goes up and down like a yo-yo and becomes wearisome after a while. |
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Initially it seems that the ship is grounded as solidly as a breakwater, but after a while the creaks and groans are evidence of movement, however slight this may be. |
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Maybe she would go away after a while, but all the same he had to go upstairs and past the kiosk and the bar if he wanted to get to the entry doors. |
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At first, the sound is just a dull roar, but then after a while you pick out patterns in the ticking, as the metronomes go in and out of phase with each other. |
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The shock value, which is what we're after, dulls after a while. |
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Of course, not having any income or a regular job meant that I was always broke and after a while it got embarrassing to doss down at friends' pads. |
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At first, many people didn't like that kind of music, but after a while it caught on. |
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Thus, after a while, the Richmond Declaration of faith was adopted by nearly all of the Gurneyite yearly meetings. |
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But after a while, I decide enough is enough for one day and decide to hit the sack. |
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Initial suspicions pointed at both food and water, narrowing down after a while to fritz, a popular, bland, processed meat. |
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Imagine yourself as a beautiful, lentil weaving, Ma Walton type mother and after a while, you start to become the imagined mother! |
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All those stories about his childhood can become tiresome after a while. |
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You live in a mindset where you see nothing but enemies after a while. |
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They capture the spirit of Bananarama, but the lack of variation from shouty pop grates after a while. |
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Picked up another Rogue a few years later for 50 GBP in a second hand shop, but had to sell it after a while to raise cash. Now Moogless and pining. |
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