Example sentences of "[adv prt] after [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can buy me a bodystocking if you like , ’ Bryony went on after a pause . |
| 2 | PEOPLE 'S champion Gwen Lamb is battling on after a setback in her efforts to recoup £30,000 she lost in a bank crash . |
| 3 | ‘ The days of signing £30,000 or £40,000 players who move on after a year are over . |
| 4 | ‘ And the château had become anathema to him , ’ she went on after a moment . |
| 5 | ‘ No , cara , ’ he went on after a moment , ‘ a Taurus man is n't the right mate for you . ’ |
| 6 | At a show in a dilapidated disco in Barrow-in-Furness , I went on after a community pantomime , in which the wicked witch — a local Labour councillor — was booed off by trade unionists involved in industrial action . |
| 7 | The aromatic waters can be used in the same way as commercial products — splashed on after a bath or shower . |
| 8 | So if you 're knitting with any lights other than the basic , you have to reset the machine when turning the machine on after a break . |
| 9 | he told them he 'd stopped in the fast lane instead of moving to the hard shoulder because he did n't want to ruin his tyre by driving on after a puncture . |
| 10 | Please note that we have arranged a special performance on Saturday at 5.00 pm — to help our patrons who wish to come on after a matinee , and/or go on to another evening performance . |
| 11 | ‘ But on the other hand , ’ Emily went on after a wait , ‘ the girl also said to me suddenly one day , when I thought she was trying to read back dictation , ‘ I ca n't get through the spring without a man . ’ |
| 12 | The areas you need to work on after a marathon are the hamstrings , the quads and the hips . |
| 13 | Woking keeper Laurence Batty played on after a clash of heads with striker Kurt Nogan , but was sent for hospital tests after the game . |
| 14 | I would pick Rocastle to start and bring Strach on after an hour ( or earlier in emergency ) asa tactical substitution or as a fresh pair of legs : - ) . |
| 15 | She would have hurried on after an exchange of greetings and comments on the splendour of the morning but he moved forward to take a snip at a dandelion growing on the grass verge and contrived to block her path . |
| 16 | On the other hand the doctrine clearly applies to contractual terms by which the covenantee , an employer or a purchaser of a business , seeks to forbid the covenantor ( the employee or seller ) from carrying on his trade or restricts the way in which he may carry it on after the purchase and sale of labour or the business , has been completed . |
| 17 | Noreen was kept on after the try-out week , but she knew that was only on the strength of Fred , the Stage Manager 's sympathetic report , and for the fact that she got on well with everyone in the company , especially Bernie . |
| 18 | Striped deck chairs had gone from the long , grey stretch of shingle below the Promenade , and the fairy-lights that spiralled around the white lampposts were never turned on after the beginning of October for reasons of economy . |
| 19 | It 's on till ten and then it 's on after the news , for another hour . |
| 20 | ‘ Against the odds , Simon was able to play on after the interval and was an instrumental part of our fight-back . |
| 21 | We took him on after the war , when we were a bit short-handed . |
| 22 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |
| 23 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 24 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 25 | He could , perfectly casually have asked Lorrimer to stay on after the meeting ; why had n't he ? |
| 26 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 27 | Ironically McClair stayed on after the break , taking a deeper role in the absence of Bryan Robson and Ryan Giggs . |
| 28 | Matches and trophies carried on after the outbreak of war in August 1914 , although the Autumn Meeting in October was almost cancelled . |
| 29 | Suspicion of the king lingered on after the conclusion of the parliament of 1341 , and was probably intensified by his solemn revocation of the concessions he had made in that parliament at a council attended by all the magnates in early October 1341 . |
| 30 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |