Example sentences of "[v-ing] after [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brother Winfrid , big and young and wholesome , was leaning on his spade at the edge of the vegetable patch beyond , and gazing after a diminutive figure that was just scuttling away round the corner of the box hedge towards the great court . |
| 2 | Gazing after the covered metal container , she said : |
| 3 | But again Dostoevsky is fumbling after a creative or regenerative suffering , because it is of the essence of Raskolnikov 's questions , desires , feelings , and so forth ( which of course do appear in the novel ) that they should be agonized . |
| 4 | Patrick , who joins Michael and EastEnders actress mum Lizzie Power for a family holiday in Sardinia on Wish You Were Here , was born with cerebral palsy and is recovering after a major hip operation which his father describes as ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 5 | India were always struggling after a tight opening blast by Allan Donald and Fanie de Villiers and were bowled out for 177 . |
| 6 | It is not until he sees the motto ‘ Quit you like men ’ on the Vallens tombs in Flavonia that ‘ the burden of fear and foreboding slipped from him ’ and he sees the task before him not as that of a king struggling after an impossible ideal but as that of a man playing a man 's part : |
| 7 | Samson was amongst them , rooting after the unseen joker . |
| 8 | His father , Earl Bathurst , was banned from driving after a drink-drive conviction 4 years ago . |
| 9 | So any abdominal pain occurring after a delayed , light or missed period must be reported to a doctor at once . |
| 10 | Notice also that the coefficients on the variables imply that the lag pattern has a triangular shape with the strongest effect , - 12.1 , occurring after a one-year lag and then dying away . |
| 11 | Intrasentential candidates occurring after the current anaphor . |
| 12 | I do n't like heroes , so I was pleased to find that on the way up to Gorffwysfa Norman fussed and worried as anyone might when faced with the return to climbing after a long break . |
| 13 | There was a scent of wild flowers and grass cooling after a hot day . |
| 14 | The ‘ Westminster model ’ of government was envied by Europeans , rebuilding after the Second World War , and studied by conscientious foreign politicians , engaged in the planning of new nations . |
| 15 | The papers screamed superlatives , and La Scala , sulking after a resounding flop with Don Carlos , scowled and spat . |
| 16 | But the 7,500 punters at Manchester 's G-Mex Centre were not fooled — there was scattered booing after the ninth and 10th rounds over Eubank 's inability to deck this human punchbag . |
| 17 | Other reasons for returning after a long period away include : |
| 18 | PACEMAN Ian Bishop , returning after a two-year absence with a back injury , took 3–21 yesterday to lead the West Indies to a 28-run one-day victory over Western Australia in Perth . |
| 19 | Comrades ' Stephen Fettis , returning after a one match suspension , was shown the yellow card for kicking the ball away after 13 minutes . |
| 20 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 21 | Ball 's booking after a rash challenge on West Ham 's Stuart Slater , takes him over the 31 penalty point mark and earns him an automatic two-match ban . |
| 22 | The New Musical Express , stumbling after the new wave , advertised bells and full hippy regalia , from the people who had brought Beatle jackets to the young . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've never done this before have we , love , ’ Dan said , remembering after a few yards to change onto the correct side of the road . |
| 24 | Wilcox , who had been frowning after the departing figure of Everthorpe , turned and almost smiled . |
| 25 | However , where the assumption is a letting for a term expiring after the actual term on the terms of the actual lease , the hypothetical lease may have a long period without review . |
| 26 | It could aim to copy the Pentagon 's example , devoting a portion of the MOD 's budget to looking after a mothballed version of any production line judged a strategic asset . |
| 27 | He enjoyed the life of a country landowner , looking after a 3,000 acre estate around Wormelow . |
| 28 | It 's a full time job , looking after a walled garden , three plots of vegetables and cut flowers , lawns , a rock garden and three greenhouses where he rears thousands of plants . |
| 29 | Looking after a frail and elderly person is very much a management task . |
| 30 | Looking after a young woman with a sprained ankle , no job and no family was one thing . |