Example sentences of "[verb] on 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Matches and trophies carried on after the outbreak of war in August 1914 , although the Autumn Meeting in October was almost cancelled . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Against the odds , Simon was able to play on after the interval and was an instrumental part of our fight-back . |
| 8 | TMI did much to reemphasise the importance of these techniques in the assessment work that went on after the accident . |
| 9 | The directors Jim Johnston and Sandy Moffat are to stay on after the Deanses agreed that an independent chairman be appointed to the board . |
| 10 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 11 | He could , perfectly casually have asked Lorrimer to stay on after the meeting ; why had n't he ? |
| 12 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |
| 13 | 9/Face completed ; washes of paint from the crayon were put on after the eyebrows and eyelashes were drawn in . |
| 14 | Noreen was kept on after the try-out week , but she knew that was only on the strength of Fred , the Stage Manager 's sympathetic report , and for the fact that she got on well with everyone in the company , especially Bernie . |
| 15 | Ironically McClair stayed on after the break , taking a deeper role in the absence of Bryan Robson and Ryan Giggs . |
| 16 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |