Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] after [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox .
2 It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials .
3 New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers .
4 People are more likely to come home after a few drinks , light a cigarette and then fall asleep , often with tragic consequences .
5 The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track !
6 That comment , made shortly after the 1951 elections , is sufficient to explain the split which gradually developed between the RPF parliamentarians and de Gaulle .
7 Eileen did n't improve much after the three months .
8 The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe .
9 The deputation which arrived soon after the unfortunate events that attended their arrival had made it quite clear that he should not surrender such precious captives .
10 In this way , the small proportion of white cats that can hear will become more common and the defect could , in theory , be wiped out after a few generations .
11 I liked just lying there after the antenatal classes , holding my lump and feeling the baby move gently .
12 This is filtered off after a few days , and the company is left with sheets of a solid , somewhat resembling uncooked pastry , which is then flavoured and textured .
13 I remember when after a few months in uniform duty , walking the beat , I was on West End Road , next to the Olympic Theatre , where there had been a building site and there was Collins World Fair there .
14 All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days .
15 Approximately 1,100 respondents were interviewed in November 1985 and 750 reinterviewed just after the local elections in May 1986 .
16 They scuttled off after the other boys .
17 Eachuinn Odhar was standing alone in the bows , one hand on the high dragonhead that was no more rigid than himself , staring forward after the grey veils of rain that swept past and away ahead .
18 The techniques referred to in the revised manual appear to have been developed particularly after the inner-city riots of 1981 .
19 He said police were concerned at the rise in assaults 61 last year compared to 33 the previous year but 58 were detained shortly after the alleged crimes , indicating most victims knew their assailants and were not accosted by strangers .
20 If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ .
21 They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there .
22 These appear to die off after a few weeks in the water , but this is not actually the case .
23 Institutionalism sets in after a few months , and active people slow down and soon learn not to complain .
24 Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful .
25 In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) .
26 Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease .
27 I made a mental effort to visualise his new house , to create some mind picture , but gave up after a few seconds .
28 And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months
29 The customer gives up after a few months waiting .
30 An official refused to accept his registration for both races at the start of the meeting and he forgot to report again after the 100 metres final .
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