Example sentences of "after [art] [det] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potential problems regarding the treaty 's formal implementation , which surfaced after the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Byelarus said that they were unable immediately to ratify the accord , were circumvented by an extraordinary conference in Vienna at which representatives from 29 signatory nations approved " provisional application " of the treaty pending its ratification by Armenia and Byelarus . |
| 2 | You 'll no worry about that Rocastle business after a few wee snifters of Teachers ’ … |
| 3 | However , she leaves more cheerfully after a few choice words from one of the boys suggesting that her photograph should be changed because it does n't do her justice . |
| 4 | Three or four minutes later he heard a female with an Irish accent enquiring who wanted her : after a few cheery exchanges with the other inmates , she arrived at his pen . |
| 5 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 6 | After a few more minutes of ribald banter on our part we were startled by a flash to starboard and an explosion as a six-pound shell whizzed across our bows . |
| 7 | Three of them heaved the bulk over on to the high rocks and after a few more buckets of water , they stood back to inspect it further . |
| 8 | After a few more months on other farms , he would be ready to start farming himself . |
| 9 | After a few more days in Salamanca , during which you and I could do no work in common , your friends left in a great uproar of drunken invective , shouting political slogans — which fortunately were in German — against the Franco regime . |
| 10 | After a few initial displays of outraged incomprehension , Brian had been forced to accept this as a fact of life , explaining to his colleagues and superiors , with a wry smile , that Constance was a friend of his wife 's : his wife had a taste for the eccentric , since she was the daughter of a famous artist , and , oddly enough , believe it or not , Constance was a skilled silversmith . |
| 11 | Charles rose and after a few mumbled words about thanks , and keeping in touch , and being cheerful , and seeing himself out , he left . |
| 12 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 13 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 14 | In Syria , special forces were moved into every major town soon after the onset of war with orders to shoot to prevent further demonstrations after a few spontaneous outbursts of public protest occurred in the east of the country . |