Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] after [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't be grumpy or touchy now — you 'll be glad to see them after 26.2 miles and you want them to be happy to see you too . |
| 2 | I do n't want them after this visit tomorrow I might go out one more time |
| 3 | He overtook me after three tantrum-filled games ( mine , not his ) . |
| 4 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 5 | A theatrical gentleman approached me after one of the performances , said he was impressed by my singing , and that he could obtain a part for me with the Schikenader Company in Vienna . |
| 6 | So claimed his after two years recently and got about six thousand pound . |
| 7 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 8 | These components of intonation are found as elements in sequences of other such elements occurring one after another ( never simultaneously ) . |
| 9 | There was a time when this entire hillside had been covered in forest but , being closest to home , the trees had been felled one after another for building and firewood . |
| 10 | We ca n't trust him after this . ’ |
| 11 | But she frowned now , for how well did she really know him after all ? |
| 12 | I wo n't need him after that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ So you found her after all . |
| 14 | So it was really stupid of him to let you catch him after all . |
| 15 | It would have been very hard for him to have suddenly dropped her after all she had endured . |
| 16 | If he knew the path blindfold after one month , how well would he know it after fourteen years ? |
| 17 | ‘ And Miguel , now that I look back on your little masquerade , you know I think I did enjoy it after all ! ’ |
| 18 | Yeah , you say it after one go and you go up to the next go do n't you ? |
| 19 | Even knowing she looked ridiculous , she 'd enjoyed it after that first entrance , had loved being on a stage again , singing with the company . |
| 20 | in the , in the sense that i if , if you look , i if you adopt a sort of retrospective view , I E if you look back from say anything after nineteen forty nine and you say look , hold on erm this was the final stage of the revolution . |
| 21 | They sprayed the subjects with cold water when they were undoubtedly in REM sleep , and then woke them after varying intervals of a few minutes . |
| 22 | Were they not going to destroy them after all ? |
| 23 | I 've seen them after all ( she 's talking still faster ) … for Harriet they 're just future factory fodder . |
| 24 | If the puppy has done nothing after five or 10 minutes , follow the same routine , but once you are inside remain more watchful . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't just stop loving someone after all that time — unfortunately , ’ she says . |
| 26 | ‘ some Poles hoped that although things were desperate , the West would do something after all . |
| 27 | I mean we go round on a Saturday night and we come out stinking of smoke , cos they smoke one after another |
| 28 | It has to be recorded that in spite of all his precautions he sometimes fails to make his getaway in time and the female eats him after all . |
| 29 | We are going back to 1978 , maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me , but it was my way of motivating myself , and it worked with Archie Gemmill , every time I played him after that I kicked him up in the air . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We ca n't tip her after that , ’ said Felicity . |