Example sentences of "[vb past] after [art] " 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 | Solicitor for the families , Joanna Kay revealed after the hearing that two children would now be allowed access visits . |
| 3 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 4 | Jackie 's brother Jimmy , was the first to take up racing but he quit after an accident . |
| 5 | And judging by the calls we got after the programme , there was n't much time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The rumour that it was radioactive arose after the Soviet authorities requested some civilian aircraft not to fly their usual routes from Japan to Europe for 48 hours for ‘ technical reasons ’ . |
| 8 | It arose after the victory of Tannenberg , as a deliberate attempt by the German General Staff to distract attention from the failure of the Schlieffen plan in the west , and to associate themselves with Hindenburg 's triumph . |
| 9 | The question arose after the Ladies ' Directory case in which Frederick Shaw was convicted of ‘ conspiring to corrupt public morals ’ , and in which one of the Appeal Judges , Lord Simons , had stated that ‘ there remains in the courts a residual power to conserve not only the safety , but also the moral welfare of the State ’ . |
| 10 | Numerous problems arose after the 1980 election to ensure the demise of Schmidt and the SPD . |
| 11 | The charge of racism arose after the recent British National Party bye-election victory in East London . |
| 12 | Something they cultivated after the Iraqi Gulf War . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Oi were a bit rahsh there , ’ he announced after a minute . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I am taking you to Jaén , ’ he announced after a few miles . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In a broadcast he made after the war , he described the journal as one " which had clearly failed of its purpose several years before events brought it to an end " . |
| 19 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 20 | The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action . |
| 21 | Of particular importance is the mention of transverse flutes : the inventories of the workshop of Nicolas Hotteterre , Martin 's cousin ( one in 1708 made after the death of his wife and the other in 1727 after his own death ) , do not specify them ; the first reads ‘ hautbois , flutes [ recorders ] , and other imperfect instruments valued together for the sum of 88 livres ’ and the second lists ‘ two dozen of which are fluttes [ sic ] as well as hautbois priced 24 livres ’ . |
| 22 | We were going to run that tape you made after the planning-committee meeting , but in the light of recent events it seems unwise . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ she agreed after a while . |
| 24 | It agreed after a difficult session ( marked by objections from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union over terminology ) to recommend the dispatch of an EC-based mission to Yugoslavia to supervise the fragile ceasefire , and also to send a CSCE " good offices " mission to assist political dialogue . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's true , ’ he agreed after a careful pause , eyes never leaving her face , ‘ fools never think of the future . |
| 26 | ‘ We all agreed after the dinner that George was obviously under the influence of drink , but that does not excuse saying that the greatest footballer of all time ‘ was n't bad for a nigger ’ . |
| 27 | Townsend oozed confidence from his first kick to touch , and he agreed after the match that being part of the Scottish squad had done much to sharpen his game . |
| 28 | Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself ! |
| 29 | " Yes , I have plans , " Sara admitted after a little hesitation , but she did not elaborate on them . |
| 30 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |