Example sentences of "[pron] after [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the jury can be asked to take the plaintiff 's own conduct into account in reducing damages — if he has taken steps to refute the allegations publicly , or has been cleared of them after a publicised enquiry , or has obtained retractions and damages from other publications , his wounds may be considered to have partially healed . |
| 2 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 3 | Tom gave a slow , satisfied nod and left them after a last reassuring pat on Faye 's shoulder . |
| 4 | It took the jury at Nottingham Crown Court less than three hours to convict them after a two-week trial . |
| 5 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 6 | Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart . |
| 7 | We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 9 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 10 | One hurricane was much the same as another to me after the two weeks I 'd just had , and I slept right through it . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 13 | Glenn Hoddle sprung a surprise by playing himself after a 5 month injury lay-off and in the opening minute Swindon were crowing ; just 30 seconds had gone , when Shaun Close set the match rolling with a freak of a goal . |
| 14 | His removal , reportedly suggested by Gen. Pinochet himself after an internal army inquiry , was accompanied by the arrest of three people connected with the case and the placing of a restriction order on another six . |
| 15 | Kohl , who had found time in his busy schedule to make the 360-mile journey from Bonn to meet Waldheim , excused himself after an opulent lunch and rushed back to his Rhineland base before Waldheim was awarded the chain of honour of the Peutinger Collegium . |
| 16 | Recovering his balance with uncanny speed , he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim . |
| 17 | It represents , however , a retreat from the basic principle that the price of limited liability should be full financial disclosure — a principle which after a long struggle , was adopted in the 1967 Act . |
| 18 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 19 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 20 | Nick Faldo , who after an outward half of 33 , had closed to within two strokes of the lead , was in with a fine chance but he could not maintain it . |
| 21 | The government began the attempt to extricate itself after a critical report by the Audit Commission in 1986 , which led to comprehensive reviews of community care policies ( Audit Commission 1986 ; Griffith 1988 ) . |
| 22 | The severe straits in which the Treasury found itself after the Crimean War made it seem quite impractical to seek a solution which involved increasing the duties of officialdom . |
| 23 | It behaves just like Tit for Tat itself after the first move , but — this is what makes it technically nasty — it does defect on the very first move of the game . |
| 24 | Squeezing strokes help restore you after a tiring day by alleviating tension from tight , sore muscles . |
| 25 | What were you after a single bed or a double bed ? |
| 26 | Forest Mere , which is owned and run most luxuriously by the Savoy Group , really is the most wonderful place in the world to revive one after a tiring period , and remove any aches and pains . |
| 27 | He found his colleague struggling with two youths , and managed to arrest one after a brief chase . |
| 28 | Therefore , should we not use our strength and influence to try to organise throughout the west a Marshall plan , similar to the one after the second world war , to strengthen the hands of those who are doing their utmost to stave off anything approximating to anarchy ? |
| 29 | Afterwards McEnroe finally agreed to hold a press conference — thereby avoiding a $10,000 fine following his refusal to attend one after the first round . |
| 30 | One after the other the main adversaries , local authorities , the miners , the universities , the bishops , dissidents of various shades , had retreated in disarray . |