Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 2 | Tabitha swooped along after the bird , over rubble , through coulisses , under gantries of black bone where vast unknown machinery slept , covered in fawn dust . |
| 3 | This was The Who touching down after the conceptual splurge of ‘ Tommy ’ , knocking out faves like ‘ Magic Bus ’ and re-reading touchstone '50s songs in a deranged but affectionate way . |
| 4 | ‘ Had it hit the concrete or had the ground been less soft , it would have carried on after the collision and headed straight into our warehouse , ’ said Mr Bagni . |
| 5 | Matches and trophies carried on after the outbreak of war in August 1914 , although the Autumn Meeting in October was almost cancelled . |
| 6 | It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials . |
| 7 | Last autumn Mr Alton threatened to stand down after the party 's Harrogate conference endorsed a strong pro-abortion line . |
| 8 | Hebbert had wound down after the adrenalin rush and was furious at having to crank up again . |
| 9 | The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track ! |
| 10 | The remains of the Polish K4 are carried off after the collision . |
| 11 | I rushed her over to see him as soon as I could but he was still drugged up after the operation . ’ |
| 12 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 13 | Morale only picked up after the restart at the beginning of a 70-mile , three-day run and walk up and over Mount Chirripo . |
| 14 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |
| 15 | Rachel asked her to come back after the show , when someone would take her to her sister 's lodgings . ’ |
| 16 | Only two days previously , the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht had suggested lines of propaganda to be carried out after the expected triumph in Stalingrad ‘ in the next days ’ , and took pride in the excellent planning of the Reich 's military leadership after the mistakes of the previous winter . |
| 17 | This is best carried out after the skin brushing and aromatic bath routine . |
| 18 | A very effective mailing of product samples was carried out after the launch of a number of new additions to a range of condiments plus repackaging of the whole range . |
| 19 | Another survey at this location will be carried out after the commencement of the new school year . |
| 20 | Measurements were carried out after the intake of 19.8 g psyllium or placebo in a randomised , crossover , double blind trial . |
| 21 | It does not apply to a failure to do work or to work carried out after the letting . |
| 22 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 23 | The release was believed to have come about after the new Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid al-Solh persuaded the Iranian government to put pressure on the Lebanese Hezbollah group . |
| 24 | THE immediate post-Christmas and New Year period is an opportune time to check your weight and count the excess pounds put on after the festive holiday — and a time to count the cost to your health and make a serious attempt to reduce the surplus . |
| 25 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 26 | Steam lorries lingered on after the Second World War , largely because of the shortage of oil . |
| 27 | Suspicion of the king lingered on after the conclusion of the parliament of 1341 , and was probably intensified by his solemn revocation of the concessions he had made in that parliament at a council attended by all the magnates in early October 1341 . |
| 28 | Striped deck chairs had gone from the long , grey stretch of shingle below the Promenade , and the fairy-lights that spiralled around the white lampposts were never turned on after the beginning of October for reasons of economy . |
| 29 | Er he came along after the the Heworth Green er demonstration . |
| 30 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |