Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tabitha swooped along after the bird , over rubble , through coulisses , under gantries of black bone where vast unknown machinery slept , covered in fawn dust . |
| 2 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 3 | Each of the three levels of WOW ! has special revision sections built in after every second unit . |
| 4 | The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track ! |
| 5 | There were several injuries and all healed up after a while . |
| 6 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |
| 7 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 8 | Woking keeper Laurence Batty played on after a clash of heads with striker Kurt Nogan , but was sent for hospital tests after the game . |
| 9 | Steam lorries lingered on after the Second World War , largely because of the shortage of oil . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Er he came along after the the Heworth Green er demonstration . |
| 12 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 13 | These provisions have been one of the major forces responsible for the complete change in standard terms and conditions for dealing with consumers that came in after the passing of the UCTA . |
| 14 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 15 | Jocelyn 's pain woke up after a night of drunken revelling feeling remarkably well . |
| 16 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 17 | Mercer came back after a while to collect the Unwins and the Youngs , and the general jollifications everywhere wore on without any alarms . |
| 18 | He came back after a while with a tray bearing two plates . |
| 19 | Which was just as well , as this time he came back after a very few minutes . |
| 20 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 21 | And er so when I came back after the War he says er , I object to him starting , he 's not come f direct from conscription , he volunteered for the Army . |
| 22 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 23 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 24 | And then Felipe came back after the war , and I knew I should have believed in myself and waited for him . |
| 25 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 26 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 27 | Green Baize are 10 points above last year 's winners 720 Snooker Club A , who scored a 5–1 away win over Greene 's Bar B. AOH dropped back after a 3-all draw with Greene 's Bar A. |
| 28 | Gary dropped out after the second round because of 'flu or something . |
| 29 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |
| 30 | The RPR candidate , Charles Pasqua dropped out after the first round . |