Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] after [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was The Who touching down after the conceptual splurge of ‘ Tommy ’ , knocking out faves like ‘ Magic Bus ’ and re-reading touchstone '50s songs in a deranged but affectionate way . |
| 2 | The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day . |
| 3 | Ironically , the situation changed remarkably after the General Strike . |
| 4 | All ten residents had been long-term patients in a large psychiatric hospital , were severely disabled and had been discharged only after a lengthy period of active rehabilitation . |
| 5 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 6 | In some places you can find dozens of enrolled trilobites together ; these are the remains of the animals themselves , not the moults , which presumably perished together after a fruitless attempt to protect themselves from a miniature catastrophe such as a sudden influx of sediment . |
| 7 | Walesa 's call was supported by the Citizens ' Parliamentary Club , a pro-Walesa parliamentary caucus , and by the Centre Alliance and the Green Party , but was opposed by the Democratic Party and the Democratic Left parliamentary groups which argued that the dissolution issue should be broached only after the electoral law and constitutional amendments had been adopted . |
| 8 | In contrast to the parties given in his honour , from which Eliot would contrive to slip away after a token attendance , these functions , never too large , were the kind he most enjoyed . |
| 9 | Yesterday 's explosion occurred soon after an express train from the northern city of Jammu had pulled up at Sealdah , Mr Biswas said . |
| 10 | Module leaders were interviewed shortly after the initial student interviews to assess academic expectations of the expectations of students . |
| 11 | On returning downstairs after a much-needed bath and shampoo , he was wearing his underpants outside his trousers , and an argument ensued as to the inappropriateness of this . |
| 12 | The Election of 1705 , for example , which occurred shortly after the unsuccessful attempt to tack the Occasional Conformity Bill to the Land Tax Bill , was fought largely over the issue of the Church in Danger , and produced a series of bitter contests throughout the country . |
| 13 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 14 | Erm sometimes if he 's been out very very late and I 'm still up and he 's come home after a heavy night drinking . |
| 15 | Ratcliffe , who is in the Welsh squad for next week 's World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands was carried off after a fifth-minute collision with Geoff Pike . |
| 16 | A ROADSWEEPER driver was fined yesterday after a serious road crash on a busy road . |
| 17 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 18 | Only two days previously , the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht had suggested lines of propaganda to be carried out after the expected triumph in Stalingrad ‘ in the next days ’ , and took pride in the excellent planning of the Reich 's military leadership after the mistakes of the previous winter . |
| 19 | THE immediate post-Christmas and New Year period is an opportune time to check your weight and count the excess pounds put on after the festive holiday — and a time to count the cost to your health and make a serious attempt to reduce the surplus . |
| 20 | Midnight was looking thoughtfully after the receding figure . |
| 21 | Some principles of association that emerge are that solitary hunters feed on prey they can subdue individually which they kill suddenly after a stealthy approach . |
| 22 | prisons , being regarded by most planners and politicians as ‘ non-productive ’ ( short-sighted a view as this may be ) , did not until very recently achieve even token inclusion in a Five Year Plan , and this came only after a lengthy battle by individuals within the Ministries of Home Affairs and Welfare to include a meaningful package for development in the correctional field . |
| 23 | Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations . |
| 24 | The panel came away after a little while ; he put it on the floor in front of him , and wriggled through on his elbows and knees into the darkness beyond . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , adoption of the bill was only pushed through after an angry demonstration outside the Supreme Soviet building on Aug. 18 in protest at blatant delaying tactics by Gumbaridze . |
| 26 | ‘ I have seen more truths at the bottom of a wine cup , and learnt more after a good tankard of sack , than any dry-skinned philosopher could teach in some dusty hall ! ’ |
| 27 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 28 | When Lucy went around the dressing rooms picking up after the final number , her hands shook . |
| 29 | He was still pumped up after the brief battle . |
| 30 | ‘ The training year follows much the same pattern as the conventional academic year , with the main intakes arriving at the beginning of the spring , summer and autumn terms and passing out after the respective twenty-eight- or forty-four-week courses . |