Example sentences of "out [noun] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fire broke out minutes after take-off ; the pilot reportedly called the control tower at Jeddah airport and was told to dump his fuel and return , but the plane crashed a kilometre from the runway and burst into flames . |
| 2 | There was a vast murmur of duck-talk on the lake as he made out group after group , some in the water and some on the banks , busy and preoccupied with feeding . |
| 3 | Although my efforts would make Mr Walt Disney cringe , they were popular enough with the children of Navan , and I was soon handing out picture after picture — all free , courtesy of Navan shopping centre . |
| 4 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
| 5 | The boys went out night after night and some did not return . |
| 6 | This promise he deliberately and ruthlessly broke , going out night after night in 1917 and hurling his load , punches , matrices and type , into the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge , 2 on one occasion missing a barge by inches . |
| 7 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 8 | And when the colonel himself seemed to have taken matters into his own hands by delegating him to a job that tired him out day after day , week after week , it seemed they had been successful . |
| 9 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 10 | Seve wears himself out week after week . |
| 11 | But Kirillov has himself pointedly ruled out life after death : ‘ the laws of nature did not spare even Him ’ — Jesus , that is . |
| 12 | Hanif , meanwhile , has been chained to his desk since his mid-teens hammering out novel after novel , all of which are rejected by publishers . |
| 13 | Meg sat over her letter for nearly an hour , crossing out line after line , and neatly copying her final version like a schoolchild . |
| 14 | Ford dismissed an immediate meeting with the unions but did not rule out talks after Christmas . |
| 15 | Not content with being obsessive about failed British pop performers like Belouis Some and Matt Fretton ( who , as they will always tell you , were ‘ big in Japan ’ ) , these star victims get all steamed up about their own home-grown talent-free singers , which the record companies churn out year after year . |
| 16 | But what gets left out time after time are the experiences of the rest of the team — the men and women at every level of the company whose contributions to the company created the success that the CEO so eagerly claims . |
| 17 | Later John Smith made Messrs Lamont and Major visibly squirm and reduced the Tory back-benchers to silence when he read out quote after quote from the Conservatives pledging not to extend VAT . |
| 18 | ‘ The rescue services are still trying to put out fires after five and a half hours . |
| 19 | I 've cut out coffee after lunch and almost do n't smoke at all . |
| 20 | Chris Broad became Steve Watkin 's 83rd victim of the season but Robert Dawson then battled grimly to add another 86 with Hodgson , who survived a run out appeal after a direct hit from Stephen James when on 48 . |