Example sentences of "[noun] after a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | New technology has increased dust and noise levels , and current dust levels suggest that one in 20 miners may develop lung damage after a lifetime 's exposure , and four-fifths according to a British Coal survey in 1983 were exposed to damaging levels of noise . |
| 2 | Border regained the Aussie captaincy from opening batsman Mark Taylor after a fortnight 's lay-off with a hamstring injury . |
| 3 | Having made this decision after a minute 's observation , not only amazed him , it also caused him to relax completely . |
| 4 | The longhouses were a welcome break after a day 's trek and were a great experience . |
| 5 | Gazza after a doctor 's inquiry into why he has become the ‘ fat boy ’ of soccer |
| 6 | Corbett , who had a string of classical roles behind him but was best known as the star of Steptoe and Son on TV , played a married travelling salesman , Brian , who is having an affair and aches for his lover after a fortnight 's absence , only to find himself sharing a bedsitting room with a religious zealot , Arnold , played by Crawford . |
| 7 | He had fallen at least twice on his way home from the New Marske Institute Club after a lunchtime 's drinking . |
| 8 | They said it was economically stupid and they would only allow us to burn down the death-house after a noble 's funeral . |
| 9 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 10 | They would load it for Pelham Street after a day 's work in the factory , drive there and back in a night , and report for work as usual the next morning . |
| 11 | But one evening after a day 's shooting on Sergeant Ryker in 1963 , Marvin was continually baited by a drunk until Marvin grabbed a banjo from somewhere and smashed it over the other man 's head , drawing blood and knocking out his teeth . |
| 12 | I never sleep well in dormitories and all their hustle and bustle jars after a day 's walking . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw some programme on the television the other day , ’ said Harry after a moment 's musing . |
| 14 | I remembered once , in the middle of summer two years ago , when I was coming down the path in the late dusk after a day 's walking in the hills beyond the town , I saw in the gathering night strange lights , shifting in the air over and far beyond the island . |
| 15 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 16 | So I often popped in , sometimes alone , sometimes with Alec , for a drink after a day 's work . |
| 17 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 18 | We must never again allow , now that we 're all too painfully aware of the consequences any company to cheat and swindle any working man or woman after a lifetime 's toil from the right to a happy and dignified and financially secure retirement . |
| 19 | He has recently returned to Europe after a year 's exile teaching in New Hampshire , and is currently living in Italy . |
| 20 | Les Stocker , the animal saviour from St Tiggywinkles Wildlife hospital at Haddenham has just returned from the islands after a fortnight 's hard work . |
| 21 | Many people have succumbed to torpor after a week 's heavy drinking . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , ’ said the old man after a moment 's hesitation . |
| 23 | This morning the 780 employees of Digital in Galway will wake up with a hangover after a night 's mourning and stare into an uncertain future , wishing that some divine intervention could be called upon to extract them from their present straits . |
| 24 | ‘ Reminds us of ambient raving on the beach after a day 's canoeing . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Not everyone , ’ said Lydia after a moment 's consideration as she worked out the least impolite way of putting what she wished to say . |
| 26 | The chick hatches after a month 's incubation and is dribble fed by the parents on a regurgitated milk-like secretion . |
| 27 | Little Hermia , a changed pony after a fortnight 's attention from Perdita , danced and snatched at her bit in excitement . |
| 28 | A title of courtesy used in the UK in the address of a letter after a man 's family name , instead of Mr before it . |
| 29 | Paul Barker , who runs a TV and video repair shop in Parliament Road , Middlesbrough , recently called in the police after a customer 's cheque for £22 was returned . |
| 30 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |