Example sentences of "after [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After fumbling for several minutes , his arms aching desperately , he was able to push up the catch . |
| 2 | Many of the most highly regarded chefs choose their menus after seeing for themselves which the freshest foods are at the market ! |
| 3 | Most of the day-to-day trade came from the man in the street , and it would be wrong to infer that every coffin-maker and funeral furnisher hungered after catering for the top end of the market . |
| 4 | Mildred had bought a mask which featured hair made from uncarded sheep 's wool , and which had produced moths only after hanging for a year on the landing of her staircase . |
| 5 | On April 6 Brightness was lasooed and after struggling for half an hour was ignominiously hauled from the water . |
| 6 | After struggling for a moment to stop it , I screamed and dropped the lot . |
| 7 | It was only after phoning for help that Lizzie thought about what happened to her sister . |
| 8 | After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes . |
| 9 | At the close the broadly-based FT-SE share index was down 10.2 points , an effective 7.4 points fall after allowing for dividend payments . |
| 10 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 11 | British workers received a 9.3% pay rise in the 12 months to February , equivalent to a real pay increase of just 0.3% after allowing for consumer-price inflation . |
| 12 | She 's too expensive for you , even after allowing for devaluation . |
| 13 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |
| 14 | But post GATT the occupier 's surplus from arable farming falls to £1500 and after allowing for other income total income would be only about £4000 . |
| 15 | ‘ The difference between the fixed rate and their standard variable rate is often quite small after allowing for exit penalties from their existing loan and the start up costs of the new . ’ |
| 16 | In our example , the London couple will experience a relatively modest decline of 5 p.c. in its after tax income after allowing for higher child benefit under Labour . |
| 17 | But , after allowing for fixed costs , the couple 's disposable income will be severely squeezed . |
| 18 | The most recent research suggests that children who were breast fed have higher intelligence than those bottle-fed from birth , after allowing for the extra time breast-feeding mothers might spend with their babies or extra effort they might put into mothering . |
| 19 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 20 | Indeed , although interest rates have been falling , inflation has fallen even faster , so real rates ( after allowing for inflation ) have been rising . |
| 21 | During 1991 , BTR increased its workforce from 105,000 to 140,000 but , after allowing for the 48,000 staff added because of acquisitions , there was a net reduction of 13,000 . |
| 22 | The latest capital spending review could result in a near 20 p.c. cut in total investment to $6½ billion ( £3.7 billion ) against $8 billion ( £4.6 billion ) last year although after allowing for the purchase of Petromed in Spain the figure is nearer 7 p.c . |
| 23 | ‘ He found , after allowing for some 37 factors not related to lead , ’ says Price , ‘ that those children having high lead levels in their teeth did significantly less well in tests than did those with low levels . ’ |
| 24 | We have increased overall funding for the NHS by 55 per cent after allowing for inflation . |
| 25 | We are providing more support than ever before — £14 for every £10 spent in 1979 , after allowing for inflation . |
| 26 | Even after allowing for inflation , that is 2½ times as much as Labour spent in the 1970s . |
| 27 | The income of the poorest fifth of the population rose by 11 per cent ‘ in real terms ’ ( after allowing for inflation ) . |
| 28 | After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 . |
| 29 | Turnover rose 3 per cent to £279m , but after allowing for acquisitions and divestment sales , declined by 6 per cent . |
| 30 | The distinctive feature of income bonds is that interest is payable only in the event that the issuer has sufficient reported profits ( after allowing for interest on other kinds of debt ) to make the payment . |