Example sentences of "[vb past] after [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final phase of the experiment , the buzzer ( a conditioned stimulus ) sounded and the dog salivated after a few seconds without the presence of any meat powder ( conditioned response ) . |
| 2 | This was no doubt reinforced by a growing concern over disaffection and alienation among black youth , culminating in the ‘ moral panic ’ that erupted after the urban uprisings of 1980–81 ( cf. |
| 3 | His remarks came after the sectarian murders of four Catholics in the past nine days . |
| 4 | Isabel wished she could find the oblivion of sleep as easily , but though her body ached after the unaccustomed hours in the saddle her mind refused to rest . |
| 5 | A maintenance man , with a garden fork and wheelbarrow , was tending the herbaceous border that stretched along the frontage of the flats and , in response to Morse 's question , he said he was one of a small team that looked after the three blocks of flats that stood on the eastern side of Water Eaton Road . |
| 6 | I think Tony gave him confidence because Tony looked after the day-to-day worries of how one paid for what one was going to do . |
| 7 | It emerged after the first reports of the Dushanbe violence that there had been a demonstration on Feb. 10 in Frunze , the capital of Kirghizia , likewise sparked off by rumours of the resettlement there of Armenian refugees . |
| 8 | Or was she behaving again like she had after the strange happenings on Monument Hill ? |
| 9 | China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu . |
| 10 | The unrest in the Chittagong Hill Tracts between predominantly Buddhist Chakma tribal peoples and Moslem Bengali settlers and the security forces subsided after the local elections on June 25 , 1989 , in the region ( for which see p. 36736 ; for legislation creating local councils see p. 36524 ) . |