Example sentences of "[v-ing] after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems to be added to this list of desiderata , making this theoretical model almost impossible to attain , include the problem of all year-round warmth , so that there is no respite from pests and diseases , a rapid breakdown of litter and subsequently enhanced leaching after the harvest of the crop . |
| 2 | Erm there there were quite a few interesting debates that that came up about policing after the riots , I mean initially it was the fact that you did n't see any policemen in the flats at all . |
| 3 | Agnes Winkowski turned from the frightened child clinging on to the side of her hand-cart and looked back to watch two men of the law speeding after the woman . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gazing after the covered metal container , she said : |
| 6 | TEENAGER Matthew Bown is being hailed a hero for saving a toddler from drowning after the child plunged into a fast-flowing stream . |
| 7 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Resting after a life 's hard work . ’ |
| 10 | Without England skipper Will Carling , resting after the Barbarians ' match against Australia , scrum-half Rob Glenister led the way with a hat-trick of tries and full-back Stuart Thresher added six conversions . |
| 11 | There will always be a need for reacting after the event , but many public relations executives depend solely on this kind of activity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whether gathering after the scythe , or the reaper , or stoking the sheaves , clothes could become sopping wet . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Patrick , who joins Michael and EastEnders actress mum Lizzie Power for a family holiday in Sardinia on Wish You Were Here , was born with cerebral palsy and is recovering after a major hip operation which his father describes as ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 16 | Although it was recovering after a revamp , only it and the Mail on Sunday , boosted by massive spending on advertising , were actually gaining readers . |
| 17 | All that and Benn has made the grand gesture of giving his new WBC belt to his first conqueror , Michael Watson , who is slowly recovering after the brain damage he suffered against Eubank last year . |
| 18 | Cash is recovering after an Achilles tendon operation and Cahill is set to have exploratory knee surgery , but Australia hope they will be fit for the match on Perth 's grass courts from February 2 to 4 . |
| 19 | Such a provision would prevent him from making , while still employed , preparations for competing after the termination of his service agreement ( Thomas Marshall ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1979 ] Ch 227 ) . |
| 20 | Mind you few customers are likely to care what they 're eating after a couple of glasses of Mulsum : Salute . |
| 21 | Pacepa says that Ceauşescu was afraid of poisoning after the CIA 's attempt to murder Fidel Castro by impregnating his clothes with potions to make his beard fall out , and so he ordered the Securitate department which provided all his personal needs free of charge to arrange for the manufacture of a new set of clothes for every day of his life . |
| 22 | The judge concluded that none of the documents or the contents of them satisfied the requirement of the kind of confidential information which an employer is entitled to prevent an ex-employee from using after the termination of the employer/employee relationship . |
| 23 | The attack came from the Royal College of Nursing after a series of recent reports concerning doctors and other medical professionals with HIV . |
| 24 | India were always struggling after a tight opening blast by Allan Donald and Fanie de Villiers and were bowled out for 177 . |
| 25 | It is not until he sees the motto ‘ Quit you like men ’ on the Vallens tombs in Flavonia that ‘ the burden of fear and foreboding slipped from him ’ and he sees the task before him not as that of a king struggling after an impossible ideal but as that of a man playing a man 's part : |
| 26 | Inevitably , I am elaborating after the event in intellectual terms . |
| 27 | Samson was amongst them , rooting after the unseen joker . |
| 28 | A VETERAN police inspector caught drink driving after a day out with friends has quit the force , a court was told yesterday . |
| 29 | His father , Earl Bathurst , was banned from driving after a drink-drive conviction 4 years ago . |
| 30 | STORE boss Roger Price was fuming after a paper printed a Christmas ad telling his customers : ‘ Stuff your kids . ’ |