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Example sentences for "learned afterwards"

  • But fortunately (as I learned afterwards) they missed each other in the town, and so set off alone.

  • What had really been said, I learned afterwards, was that Nancy was running after Lord Eardesley, which was unkind as well as untrue.

  • I learned afterwards that he had been doing it ever since he came into the house that day and found her at home and heard that I was with her.

  • Usually, as we learned afterwards, the river at this spot was quite shallow; only a foot or two in depth.

  • More than an hour was spent in this work, till we came to a village wherein none were stirring, and here struck a road which seemed to run towards the mountain, though, as we learned afterwards, it took us very many miles out of our true path.

  • At that time we did not know what we learned afterwards, that with its bordering river the soil of the Mountain was absolutely sacred and, in practice, inviolable.

  • Such was the gist of his history, which, as we learned afterwards, proved to be true in every particular.

  • I learned afterwards it was at Greenfield.

  • I learned afterwards he had been sent for, and did come.

  • I learned afterwards it was not at all necessary.

  • As we went down the principal street, I noticed nearly every house was a hotel; we learned afterwards that in summer the usual average of visitors is five thousand.

  • We learned afterwards it was occasioned by the explosion of a jar of naphtha, which instantly enveloped the whole room in fire, the people barely escaping in time.

  • But for this there was a reason as we learned afterwards, also he was not really so amiable as I hoped.

  • This was not wonderful since, as I learned afterwards, Bickley, after he was sure that I was asleep, made a practice of tying a thread across my doorway and of ascertaining at the dawn that it remained unbroken.

  • Then he rose and walked away rather unsteadily; as I learned afterwards, to plunge his head in a tub of cold water and swallow a pint of new milk, which were his favourite antidotes after too much strong drink.

  • I learned afterwards that he was giving heavy odds against me, ten to one in cattle, which they were obliged to take, unwillingly enough.

  • Those, as I learned afterwards, were the thoughts that passed through their minds.

  • In the middle of this extemporised kraal was a long, low mound, which, as I learned afterwards, contained the dead who fell in the attack on the house.

  • Then he slowly and carefully sprinkled the water round a dish with all kinds of dainties, which stood by itself, and was destined, as we learned afterwards, for the gods.

  • I learned afterwards that he had been chaplain to a regiment of foot, which, according to rumour, he had had to leave for some misconduct.

  • As I walked home to dinner, she and Miss Brotherton passed me in the carriage, on their way, as I learned afterwards, to fetch the Osborne ladies from the rectory, some ten miles off.

  • She had besides, as I learned afterwards, greatly resented the trouble I had caused of late.

  • Quilla seated herself upon a throne and motioned to me to take my place upon another throne at her side, which I noted stood a little higher than that on which she sat, and this, as I learned afterwards, not by chance.

  • Now, as I learned afterwards, these words of its most famous oracle went all through the land and caused great talk and wonder mixed with fear, for none of such import had been spoken by it for generations.

  • I shut my eyes, being so very tired, and as I learned afterwards, slept for twelve hours or more, to awake on the morning of the following day, feeling wonderfully stronger and able to eat with appetite.

  • He had the name of being an atheist, I learned afterwards.

  • He was Mr. Harris, I learned afterwards, a Justice of the Peace from Puckeridge, whom Dangerfield had brought with him.

  • When I came to the Gallery he was at the further end, walking with Sir Robert Murray, as I learned afterwards, who was a very earnest Protestant, but always at Court; but when he saw me he sent Sir Robert away and beckoned to me to come.

  • In the ground floors of the houses there were no windows and no doors; by reason, I learned afterwards, of the frequent flooding of the river.

  • He had quitted the stage some months; and, as I learned afterwards, had been in the habit of resorting daily to these gardens almost to the day of his decease.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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