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 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 3 | The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day . |
| 4 | Ironically , the situation changed remarkably after the General Strike . |
| 5 | Each of the three levels of WOW ! has special revision sections built in after every second unit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The raw recruits leapt up and formed a queue to wash in basins half full of freezing water , changed only after every third man . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 13 | Men in small firms experience an earlier and lower peak growth rate which very quickly drops away after the twenty-fifth year of service . |
| 14 | Yesterday 's explosion occurred soon after an express train from the northern city of Jammu had pulled up at Sealdah , Mr Biswas said . |
| 15 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 16 | Module leaders were interviewed shortly after the initial student interviews to assess academic expectations of the expectations of students . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A ROADSWEEPER driver was fined yesterday after a serious road crash on a busy road . |
| 23 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 24 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 25 | In the City , shares rose sharply after the better-than-expected figure . |
| 26 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |
| 27 | Several safety audits had been carried out after an earlier explosion in 1984 , but Occidental , the owners , never released the findings . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So you know , these traditions die hard but I m but things had to change and they changed really after the Second World War . |
| 30 | Also , because the rats ’ behaviour changed immediately after the first reinforcement trial , Tolman argued that the results obtained could only occur if the rats had earlier developed a cognitive map , that is the mental representation of the particular special arrangement of the maze . |