Example sentences of "[pron] after the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One hurricane was much the same as another to me after the two weeks I 'd just had , and I slept right through it . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Recovering his balance with uncanny speed , he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One after the other the main adversaries , local authorities , the miners , the universities , the bishops , dissidents of various shades , had retreated in disarray . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's got lots of words written up , one after the other — I suppose the names of where the trains are going . |
| 16 | And then we came back to them , one after the other , and said , ‘ Now , where does this take us ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Loud were the claps and cheers as , one after the other , Brownie Packs began to circle the field . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ( Tap , one after the other , Esc ape , T ransfer , C lear , W indow . ) |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Saskia shrugged , delicately , and she and Mogul turned handsprings , one after the other , and bounced lightly into the middle of the net . |
| 25 | One after the other the towers of prestige and glamour were falling to him . |
| 26 | They 'd fuck her one after the other and she would n't even know who they were . |
| 27 | One after the other , Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben got on to their bikes and rode off . |
| 28 | When two distinctly different vowel sounds occur one after the other and must be pronounced individually , a hyphen should be used where another language might employ an accent , eg co-operation/and not cooperation , thus avoiding the natural wish to pronounce the double o as /u/ or /u : / . |
| 29 | The principle is fixed that a scholar aspiring to high office must first teach at a graded series of medreses , one after the other , and that only when he reaches a certain grade does he become eligible for the great offices of the learned hierarchy , the mevleviyets , which are in their turn graded . |
| 30 | I see so we 've got the five officers who went into the flat now coming one after the other |