Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv prt] after " in BNC.

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1 I would pick Rocastle to start and bring Strach on after an hour ( or earlier in emergency ) asa tactical substitution or as a fresh pair of legs : - ) .
2 The priest blew out his cheeks , unlocked his door and gestured Corbett in after him .
3 No doubt because of his strictures on Hardy in After Strange Gods , and because he found Hardy 's view of life personally antipathetic — and when Eliot disliked a writer , as he disliked Aldous Huxley ( i.e. the work , not the man ) , and as he disliked Addison , and above all Goethe , his antipathy was intense and difficult to budge — he reacted in rather a lukewarm manner .
4 Man U were absolutely crap , made all the funnier by the fact that the ref gave free-kicks to the Turks for all their play-acting , booked 3 or four of the red twats , and sent Cuntona off after the match .
5 Wright , who knows better than many what it is like to feel persecuted , watched the 6–0 win on television after his groin injury ruled him out and let Barnes back after 10 months ' absence .
6 Tom crawled back out into the sun and pulled Willie out after him .
7 She thought that was supposition until he reminded her that Barron had forced Pascoe out after MacQuillan 's death .
8 Most important was the fact that personal circumstances and creative needs of each man had impelled him to be , in a phrase which Eliot applies to Lawrence in After Strange Gods but which applies equally well to himself , a ‘ restless seeker for myths ’ .
9 As in his remarks on Lawrence in After Strange Gods and The Idea of a Christian Society , Eliot indicates the importance of contact with the savage as a beginning , while stressing its limitations .
10 Mary washes Basil off after his schooling session .
11 The beer should cheer Santa up after all that milk .
12 West Brom were then safe and were not too bothered about letting Stoke beat them to send Leeds down after the trouble that Leeds fans had caused at the Hawthorns .
13 I 'd have to spend half an hour calming Dawn down after these attacks .
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