Example sentences of "[noun sg] after [v-ing] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | She came to the university after steering the British women 's coxed four in the final of the Olympics in Seoul . |
2 | The Aga Khan , one of the sport 's leading owner-breeders , seems to have accepted that his three-and-a-half year challenge to the decision to disqualify Aliysa for failing a dope test after winning the 1989 Oaks has run its course . |
3 | Bonington set off alone for civilisation , reaching a village after descending the dangerous icefalls and cutting his way through the jungle for a day and a half . |
4 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
5 | Twice round the block after gettin' the little ones to school . ’ |