Example sentences of "[verb] after [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I was walking across the garden after breakfast , enjoying the clear wintry air , when suddenly my body was again torn by those indescribable feelings which I always experienced after a dose of the drug .
2 SWEDISH rockers Abba may yet regroup after the success of their album Abba Gold .
3 Solicitor for the families , Joanna Kay revealed after the hearing that two children would now be allowed access visits .
4 Furthermore , the Charter implied that the two greatest trading nations of the world should take domestic action to expand their demand , for the international expansion of trade which the Americans wanted to see after the war would necessarily be the sum of many domestic expansions .
5 149 ( 3 ) A term , at a rent or granted in consideration of a fine , limited after the commencement of this Act to take effect more than twenty-one years from the date of the instrument purporting to create it , shall be void , and any contract made after such commencement to create such a term shall likewise be void ; but this subsection does not apply to any term taking effect in equity under a settlement , or created out of an equitable interest under a settlement , or under an equitable power for mortgage , indemnity or other like purposes .
6 Fears that Steffi Graf 's foot injury was worse than first thought , were allayed after the defending women 's champion put in six hours of practice at Wimbledon on Saturday then practised for two hours yesterday at a club in west London .
7 Jackie 's brother Jimmy , was the first to take up racing but he quit after an accident .
8 The problems to be added to this list of desiderata , making this theoretical model almost impossible to attain , include the problem of all year-round warmth , so that there is no respite from pests and diseases , a rapid breakdown of litter and subsequently enhanced leaching after the harvest of the crop .
9 A method for illustrating the intermediate and final outcomes which may arise after the occurrence of a selected initial event ( Reference 5 ) .
10 Erm there there were quite a few interesting debates that that came up about policing after the riots , I mean initially it was the fact that you did n't see any policemen in the flats at all .
11 Agnes Winkowski turned from the frightened child clinging on to the side of her hand-cart and looked back to watch two men of the law speeding after the woman .
12 Quasi-periodic solutions were found at sufficiently small a , and chaotic solutions developed after a sequence of period doublings as f is increased when a = 0.05 ( see Fig. 2.23 ) .
13 My patient presented in March 1991 with a raised red lesion on the back of her leg , which she believed had developed after an insect bite on holiday in Malta in 1990 .
14 The supposedly most securely dated vessels are those which can be related to Continental chronologies ; vessels which occur on the Continent but not in England date to before the migration , those on both sides of the North Sea to the migration period itself , and those which are only found in England must have developed after the migration period .
15 Doubts about the effectiveness of the 1979 Banking Act in ensuring an adequate supervision of banks developed after the collapse of Johnson Matthey Bankers ( JMB ) in 1984 .
16 They were developed after the merger of Siemens and Nixdorf when Siemens acquired Targon .
17 The other is to imply , by crediting before the deduction of dividends an amount equal to the goodwill component , that profit for the period is calculated after the goodwill release .
18 And judging by the calls we got after the programme , there was n't much time .
19 TEENAGER Matthew Bown is being hailed a hero for saving a toddler from drowning after the child plunged into a fast-flowing stream .
20 Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale .
21 The question arose after the Ladies ' Directory case in which Frederick Shaw was convicted of ‘ conspiring to corrupt public morals ’ , and in which one of the Appeal Judges , Lord Simons , had stated that ‘ there remains in the courts a residual power to conserve not only the safety , but also the moral welfare of the State ’ .
22 It arose after the victory of Tannenberg , as a deliberate attempt by the German General Staff to distract attention from the failure of the Schlieffen plan in the west , and to associate themselves with Hindenburg 's triumph .
23 It is a poor house Ellen and not clean but it is cheap and furnished after a fashion and best of all lies next to the Casa Guidi which raised my spirits .
24 I just mean after the way he had lived , how was he ever going to convince anybody he was a white man ?
25 Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over
26 Peacock was sacked after a year , and other staff followed .
27 Mrs Frak was sacked after the incident and was told by magistrates she could now face prison .
28 Resting after a life 's hard work . ’
29 Without England skipper Will Carling , resting after the Barbarians ' match against Australia , scrum-half Rob Glenister led the way with a hat-trick of tries and full-back Stuart Thresher added six conversions .
30 For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace .
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