Example sentences of "[verb] after a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was walking across the garden after breakfast , enjoying the clear wintry air , when suddenly my body was again torn by those indescribable feelings which I always experienced after a dose of the drug . |
| 2 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 3 | Brother Winfrid , big and young and wholesome , was leaning on his spade at the edge of the vegetable patch beyond , and gazing after a diminutive figure that was just scuttling away round the corner of the box hedge towards the great court . |
| 4 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 5 | Quasi-periodic solutions were found at sufficiently small a , and chaotic solutions developed after a sequence of period doublings as f is increased when a = 0.05 ( see Fig. 2.23 ) . |
| 6 | In the early stages of the disease sufferer from alcoholism may be still waiting for the " real " party to start when everyone else is already intoxicated after a much smaller intake . |
| 7 | Labour made the National Health Service a major issue , and considerable media debate arose after a Labour party political broadcast on March 24 featuring the plight of a young girl needing specialist hospital treatment . |
| 8 | It is a poor house Ellen and not clean but it is cheap and furnished after a fashion and best of all lies next to the Casa Guidi which raised my spirits . |
| 9 | Gower was sacked after a disastrous Test series against Australia and axed from the winter tour to the West Indies . |
| 10 | Peacock was sacked after a year , and other staff followed . |
| 11 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 12 | ‘ It was the same when he got that job on a building site and was sacked after a few days , although they said there was nothing wrong with his work . |
| 13 | Gould was sacked after a stormy 14 months following Albion 's failure to at least make the Third Division promotion play-offs . |
| 14 | But again Dostoevsky is fumbling after a creative or regenerative suffering , because it is of the essence of Raskolnikov 's questions , desires , feelings , and so forth ( which of course do appear in the novel ) that they should be agonized . |
| 15 | A real mountain bastu is one of those experiences not to be missed , and all you could want after a hard day 's toil , a wonderful relaxant . |
| 16 | Resting after a life 's hard work . ’ |
| 17 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1958 After flirting with failure , the Swedes came through to the finals with a point to spare after a 2-0 victory in Poland in their last qualifying game . |
| 18 | The Dubliners had 58 runs to spare after a half century by Mark Cohen helped them reach 181 . |
| 19 | But treated after a diverse fashion , |
| 20 | Hence , the backlash to which so many poor devils have been exposed after a premature elevation to megastardom . |
| 21 | Exposed after a bigamous marriage in New York in 1885 , he changed his name to its final form and enlisted with Thorsten Nordenfelt , the London-based Swedish inventor of a quick-firing gun and an unseaworthy submarine . |
| 22 | Then , out of the blue , Simon and Moscato announced after a considered assessment they had decided to opt out of the French national squad 's World Cup preparations . |
| 23 | ‘ Oi were a bit rahsh there , ’ he announced after a minute . |
| 24 | ‘ Now take this meatloaf , boys , ’ her father announced after a long silence , for no-one talked unless directly addressed by the head of the family . |
| 25 | ‘ I am taking you to Jaén , ’ he announced after a few miles . |
| 26 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 27 | Among the restaurants is the Savini , Milan 's most prestigious , where opera-goers congregate after a performance to while away the rest of the evening in expensive surroundings . |
| 28 | I see the camera closing to find her old Masai friends gathering after a day , another of the infinite number of days , spent caring for the cattle . |
| 29 | Although early day weakness among the leaders , inspired by profit takers , evaporated after a series of small ‘ buy side ’ programme trades , generate any genuine investment interest was poor . |
| 30 | Most library suppliers produce ‘ library editions ’ of fiction by buying up sets of book sheets from the publishers , adding double strength reinforcing and laminating the dust jackets on to their own boards — the end result having far greater durability than a publisher 's casing , and avoiding the need for binding after a couple of years ' use . |