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 | It took the jury at Nottingham Crown Court less than three hours to convict them after a two-week trial . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Recovering his balance with uncanny speed , he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Squeezing strokes help restore you after a tiring day by alleviating tension from tight , sore muscles . |
| 16 | What were you after a single bed or a double bed ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He found his colleague struggling with two youths , and managed to arrest one after a brief chase . |
| 19 | One after the other the main adversaries , local authorities , the miners , the universities , the bishops , dissidents of various shades , had retreated in disarray . |
| 20 | It is possible to read some of the writings of Marx and Engels as suggesting a mechanical succession of stages , following one after the other , or it is possible to seen in their work , concentrating on other passages , a less determinist view of progress . |
| 21 | It 's got lots of words written up , one after the other — I suppose the names of where the trains are going . |
| 22 | And then we came back to them , one after the other , and said , ‘ Now , where does this take us ? ’ |
| 23 | It was a triumph to see the Grand National from so many angles — far better than being there — to have the camera on the winning boat , to watch the two FA Cup semi-finals , one after the other , and to round off the day with Nigel Mansell 's win in the Brazilian Grand Prix . |
| 24 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 25 | Loud were the claps and cheers as , one after the other , Brownie Packs began to circle the field . |
| 26 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 27 | ( Tap , one after the other , Esc ape , T ransfer , C lear , W indow . ) |
| 28 | One after the other the pallets with the self-inflating assault boats disappeared , tipping forward out into the night , static lines ripping and jerking , the snap of the opening canopies clearly audible above the roar of the engine , the wind and the ocean . |
| 29 | She still retained her English habit of noting each day 's weather , always expecting changes , marvelling at the hot sunny days which followed one after the other , almost with monotony . |
| 30 | Saskia shrugged , delicately , and she and Mogul turned handsprings , one after the other , and bounced lightly into the middle of the net . |