Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track ! |
| 3 | That comment , made shortly after the 1951 elections , is sufficient to explain the split which gradually developed between the RPF parliamentarians and de Gaulle . |
| 4 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Approximately 1,100 respondents were interviewed in November 1985 and 750 reinterviewed just after the local elections in May 1986 . |
| 7 | They scuttled off after the other boys . |
| 8 | I made a mental effort to visualise his new house , to create some mind picture , but gave up after a few seconds . |
| 9 | And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months |
| 10 | ‘ At one stage we thought Freddie was going to get John thrown out but they both calmed down after a few minutes , ’ added the source . |
| 11 | The other side seems to be led by Jon Kalb , a geologist at the University of Texas , who was a member of Johanson 's early expeditions but left shortly after the big discoveries because of what Kalb calls ‘ disputes … over scientific and management issues ’ . |
| 12 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 13 | Work ended abruptly after a few years — the builders did n't even bother to take their ladder away . |