Example sentences of "[adv] after [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For extension , from , turn left on road , then right after 30 yds |
| 2 | At 75 years of age also decided it was time to take things a little easier and retired on after 13 years with the company . |
| 3 | Having said that , the deep forefoot outsole was still holding on after 500 miles . |
| 4 | Nigel , 27 , succeeds Colin Auton who has moved on after seven years at the hotel . |
| 5 | He came on after 51 minutes to replace the injured Francis , then was hauled off 11 minutes from the end in favour of Nigel Pearson . |
| 6 | . Thank you , bye bye ! du n no what 's going on after those files ! |
| 7 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 8 | But in the middle are a group of ‘ innovators ’ who effectively abolish the underlying unit trust charges and instead impose a smaller initial charge which is coupled to a sliding scale of exit charges on the PEP , which disappear altogether after three years . |
| 9 | A little after 0530 hours she was 45 miles ( 72km ) from the estuary , when she crossed the tracks of the Wolfe-Mowe destroyers , sent out earlier that night to sweep for mines that the Germans thought had been laid by the British force . |
| 10 | Airline pilots commonly have difficulty in sleeping properly after long flights , especially when there have been time-zone changes . |
| 11 | If the adventurers have n't buried the bodies properly after seven days the Ghost will attack them , convinced that they were lying . |
| 12 | And at seven thirty , Karen found herself sipping sherry in a borrowed frock and shaking fingers politely with a lawyer and his wife , whom she disliked quite intensely after fifty seconds . |
| 13 | Kerr gave Vale the lead when he latched on to a perfectly weighted Slaven pass to shoot home deftly after 14 minutes and eight minutes before the interval Slaven strolled into the penalty area before finishing in style . |
| 14 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 15 | Apparently after two weeks of secret negotiations with prominent Croatian Serbs , Tudjman announced on July 31 that legislation had been prepared to offer home rule ( with its own police force ) to the Serbian community in the self-proclaimed " Autonomous Region of Krajina " . |
| 16 | The funds made available through the Farm and Horticultural Development Scheme will be a sound national investment but does it make sense to embark on a programme with a possibility that perhaps after six years the land might be allocated to forestry ? |
| 17 | Perhaps after five minutes here and there revising those from other lessons so you do n't forget it . |
| 18 | To be described as surplus to requirements , perhaps after many years of loyal and diligent service , can cripple the self-esteem of even the most resilient person . |
| 19 | I might slacken off when I got established — perhaps after ten years or so . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , landing in heavily greased jerseys and long-john underwear , with a revolver in a supposedly waterproof packet and carrying the waterproofed torch and compass , was difficult enough after several days in the confined quarters of submarine HMS Triumph while she made a periscope survey of Rhodes ' beaches , often having to dive below 60 feet ( 18m ) , because in these clear waters a submarine at shallower depth is plainly seen from the air . |
| 21 | In After Strange Gods he continued his investigation , but with an attitude far from simple romantic primitivism . |
| 22 | It is characteristic of Eliot to move in After Strange Gods from the savage notion of taboo , which he sees as having decayed in our time so that it has become ‘ used … in an exclusively derogatory sense ’ , to the Christian notion of ‘ heresy ’ as being vital to the interpretation of the modern world and to the health of the ( mainly Christian-based ) ‘ tradition ’ . |
| 23 | In After Strange Gods his own view of savage and city is defined against that of Lawrence . |
| 24 | Most important was the fact that personal circumstances and creative needs of each man had impelled him to be , in a phrase which Eliot applies to Lawrence in After Strange Gods but which applies equally well to himself , a ‘ restless seeker for myths ’ . |
| 25 | This is seen most clearly in the song of Eliot 's Blackshirts , whose bitter irony should be set against remarks concerning the undesirability of too many free-thinking Jews in After Strange Gods . |
| 26 | Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful . |
| 27 | As in After Strange Gods , he is concerned in his conclusion with a return to sources , that is with going back to the savage and working forwards towards his solution to the problem– of modern industrial life ; again such a movement is presented in terms of a familiar encounter . |
| 28 | As in his remarks on Lawrence in After Strange Gods and The Idea of a Christian Society , Eliot indicates the importance of contact with the savage as a beginning , while stressing its limitations . |
| 29 | Half of the essays were reprinted , with slight alterations , from For Lancelot Andrewes , while the more recent of them , " Religion and Literature " , " Catholicism and International Order " and " Modern Education and the Classics " , continue the theme which he had inaugurated in After Strange Gods ; he assaults the dominant position of secularism in contemporary culture , and anticipates in lugubrious fashion the barbarism which will descend . |
| 30 | In his published writings there are two egregious instances : the line " The Jew is underneath the lot , " in " Burbank with a Baedeker : Bleistein with a Cigar " and the reference to the undesirability of a large number of " free-thinking Jews " in After Strange Gods . |