Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] after [art] horse " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 2 | There 's also Data Integrity 's Systems Perils Policy , available from any Lloyds broker , for bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted . |
| 3 | The French menace produced a more immediate response which had a remarkable effect on the Sussex landscape , although it seems in retrospect like bolting the stable door after the horse had fled . |
| 4 | ‘ The Institute is making a career of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 5 | Unfortunately I had shut the stable door after the horse had fled . |
| 6 | ‘ He has closed the stable door after the horse has bolted , ’ said one dealer . |
| 7 | To lock up young car thieves is another example of bolting the stable door after the horse has fled . |
| 8 | When she shot the bolts of the loose boxes home , she thought inevitably of the saying about slamming the stable door after the horse is stolen . |
| 9 | The PAC uncovered many scandals , but as its investigations were post-mortems it was accused of ‘ only shutting the stable door after the horse had bolted ’ ( see Pollitt 1977 ) . |
| 10 | If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted . |