Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] after the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 2 | It is the equivalent of a bill becoming law after the Second Reading . |
| 3 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 4 | As it happened , Walter Kamm almost dismissed Joyce after the first audition . |
| 5 | Nor does it matter whether the tenant may give notice after the last date for service of a rent review notice ( Coventry CC v J Hepworth & Son Ltd ( 1982 ) 265 EG 608 ) or at a time which coincides with time during which a landlord may serve such a notice ( Legal & General Assurance ( Pension Management ) Ltd v Cheshire CC ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I told Cadogan after the first hour . |
| 7 | The dead material is left to dry , is then burnt and left to cool ; planting in the fertilizing ash takes place after the first rain . |
| 8 | Even though this was Jack 's own tournament , I decided to quit Jack after the last event of 1983 , the Chrysler Invitation , and start fresh with Greg next year . |
| 9 | Amal lost consciousness after the third boy raped her . |
| 10 | New Zealand continued to build stations after the Second World War . |
| 11 | The uprising against the townies will take place after the next eunoto , which is the gathering of thousands of warriors at the end of their time as morans . |
| 12 | Damna " goes with " ( as a noun followed by its modifier ) , with ( as a modifier followed by its noun ) , sits in mid-line between the adroitly shuffled noun-phrases , and , the word that marks an emphatic turn in the poem , is slipped into focusing position after the first word of the new verse-sentence . |
| 13 | Coal-tar technology could not cope with the huge expansion in the chemical industry that took place after the Second World War . |
| 14 | In Latin America this occurred during the great wave of nationalizations which took place after the Second World War and involved dislocation from which some of the railways have never recovered . |
| 15 | The movement originated in Germany , where Red Cross ambulance dogs were trained to help blind veterans after the First World War ; today we have 450 centres across Britain . |
| 16 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |
| 17 | GCE O and A levels were devised when a large proportion of children left school after the fifth year , and when it was therefore sensible to have a block of examinations taken in that year , to operate partly as a school-leaving certification , partly as a screen , to select those who would stay on . |
| 18 | And despite the even bigger swing to the right-wing coalition in the first round of the elections on Sunday , investors flinched yesterday in anticipation of a move by the markets to test the resolve of the new government which is expected to take power after the second round of voting this coming week-end . |
| 19 | Her problems had started before university , when she had changed schools after the fifth form . |
| 20 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 21 | Such information allows them to plan ahead , using data from the previous period perhaps to make corrections after the next pass of the satellite over Chilton . |