Example sentences of "[coord] after [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |
| 2 | When the main waterproofing coating starts to wear away — very quickly or after many years depending on use and care , you can try to reproof it . |
| 3 | Instead of going into private practice , or after some years of practice , the solicitor may seek an appointment . |
| 4 | I carried out stone from the cave , and after many days ' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill . |
| 5 | The present incumbent was a retired Yorkshire miner and after many thanks and good wishes for the festive season the ensemble played themselves out with a lively rendering of ‘ Ilkley Moor ’ . |
| 6 | He believed that ‘ there was nothing to prevent those who wished to give their service voluntarily working with the authorities , and after many years producing a magnificent edifice for public health to help their fellows ’ . |
| 7 | In view of this and after many years of being in the movement and being active in the movement , I know when to quit when I 'm winning , so I move motion one six three . |
| 8 | I became so worried that we went to our G.P. and after several visits he suggested an allergy to cows milk : so we tried a milk free diet ( its harder than you think once you start looking at contents labels ) . |
| 9 | Newspaper accounts of open-cast coal workings led him to Cowdenbeath in Fife and after several visits he found the remains he was locking for . |
| 10 | This area is notoriously shoal , with vast areas of mudflats , and after several attempts at finding the channel leading to a landing spot , the vessel gave up and anchored in midstream extinguishing all her lights . |
| 11 | At the same time a derelict barn offered the possibility of a new and spacious studio , and after several meetings the idea of Herringbroom Studio was born . |
| 12 | The Oldham directors resolutely refused to release their local man , and after several hours of talks Chapman asked : ‘ All right , then , what about this other chap Taylor ? ’ |
| 13 | On Sept. 7 , as hundreds of armed supporters of the Moslem- dominated opposition surrounded Dushanbe airport terminal , members of the coalition government formed in May [ see p. 38916 ] and parliamentary opposition leaders prevented Nabiyev from leaving for his northern home region of Khodzhent , and after several hours of talks forced him to resign . |
| 14 | That 's led to her finance company running out of patience and after several warnings , repossessing the house . |
| 15 | The president of B'nai B'rith International , Mr Seymour Reich , said the organisation made the expulsion threat reluctantly and after several years of negotiation . |
| 16 | The president of B'nai B'rith International , Mr Seymour Reich , said the organisation made the expulsion threat reluctantly and after several years of negotiation . |
| 17 | As a teenager she toured America playing Topsy in a Yiddish version of Uncle Tom 's Cabin ; and after several years in rep at Philadelphia , in such plays as The Silver King , Medea and The Kreutzer Sonata , she spent three years in cabaret and variety . |
| 18 | Some blockhouses were small and short-lived , but others proved to have been placed advantageously and after several years would be reconstructed on a larger scale to form a frontier town . |
| 19 | In 1762 , Josiah Wedgwood met Thomas Bentley , a Liverpool merchant , with whom he formed an intimate and lasting friendship ; and after several years of negotiation they signed , in 1769 , a partnership which ended only on Bentley 's death in 1780 . |
| 20 | This plan was an impossibility from the outset , and after several months of confused meetings of everyone concerned at County Hall , I went with two or three others to see the Secretary of State to recommend strongly that one single statutory authority should be appointed to deal with the area . |
| 21 | Says Murray : ‘ I was my room with a pal and after several drinks I started doing conjuring tricks — making cigarettes and bottle tops disappear . |
| 22 | My first visit to ‘ the daughter of fire ’ was back in the summer of 1969 , when with two friends , Ian and Marie Brooker , we set sail from the port of Leith on the old mail steamer ‘ Gullfoss ’ , and after several days of not too comfortable travelling , we had our first glimpse of Iceland . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I 'm so pleased , ’ Fabia replied , and after some minutes of speaking of Barney 's condition , ‘ How are you ? ’ she asked . |
| 24 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 25 | But tempers cooled and after some months the City Corporation decided to sell the building on the basis of a planning brief almost identical to SAVE 's proposals . |
| 26 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 27 | It was a long morning , but after many hours and a lot of giggling and parading , the three of them had chosen dresses . |
| 28 | Planetary activity in Taurus during the first ten days in May will give your personal affairs or morale a marvellous boost , but after that complications will arise . |
| 29 | The merchants of Awjla and Jalu contested this claim , but after some years of bloody conflict they were confined to the oases : if they wished to travel outside they , too , had to pay a fee to Zuwaya . |
| 30 | But after several hours ' hard canoeing , when the Hokule'a was due west of the island of Lanai , in the channel known as Kealaikahiki , or ‘ The Path to Tahiti ’ , a vicious swell blew up . |