Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] after the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 2 | Tabitha swooped along after the bird , over rubble , through coulisses , under gantries of black bone where vast unknown machinery slept , covered in fawn dust . |
| 3 | ‘ Had it hit the concrete or had the ground been less soft , it would have carried on after the collision and headed straight into our warehouse , ’ said Mr Bagni . |
| 4 | Matches and trophies carried on after the outbreak of war in August 1914 , although the Autumn Meeting in October was almost cancelled . |
| 5 | Last autumn Mr Alton threatened to stand down after the party 's Harrogate conference endorsed a strong pro-abortion line . |
| 6 | Hebbert had wound down after the adrenalin rush and was furious at having to crank up again . |
| 7 | The remains of the Polish K4 are carried off after the collision . |
| 8 | I rushed her over to see him as soon as I could but he was still drugged up after the operation . ’ |
| 9 | Morale only picked up after the restart at the beginning of a 70-mile , three-day run and walk up and over Mount Chirripo . |
| 10 | Rachel asked her to come back after the show , when someone would take her to her sister 's lodgings . ’ |
| 11 | This is best carried out after the skin brushing and aromatic bath routine . |
| 12 | Another survey at this location will be carried out after the commencement of the new school year . |
| 13 | It does not apply to a failure to do work or to work carried out after the letting . |
| 14 | A very effective mailing of product samples was carried out after the launch of a number of new additions to a range of condiments plus repackaging of the whole range . |
| 15 | Measurements were carried out after the intake of 19.8 g psyllium or placebo in a randomised , crossover , double blind trial . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | shall I finish off after the break ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Although advertising is picking up after the recession , most in the industry only expect fairly modest growth . |
| 24 | When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And then Felipe came back after the war , and I knew I should have believed in myself and waited for him . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 |