Example sentences of "[adj] after [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italians are getting jumpy after drawing against the Swiss in Cagliari . |
| 2 | Historical and geographical facts were intertwined : the country had been ‘ founded in 1821 after fighting between the Zulus and the Boers ’ ; it was surrounded on all sides by South Africa and contained mountain ranges , and so on . |
| 3 | I shall return to this after looking at the other two models ( see pp. 46 – 48 ) . |
| 4 | Om Prakash Chauthala resigned as the Janata Dal Chief Minister of Haryana on May 22 after serving in the post for less than seven months . |
| 5 | Samantha Forsythe , prosecuting , said Williams and two other men broke into Keele 's biology department at about 7am on July 10 after driving from the North-West in a stolen car . |
| 6 | The mullah , who was finding it difficult to stay awake throughout his devotions , was led by the Prophet to an encounter with a goat herd who had noticed his flock becoming very frisky after grazing on the berries of a certain shrub . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , 300 women were arrested in Isfahan on July 26 after protesting against the Islamic dress code . |
| 8 | Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted . |
| 9 | He joined ICI in 1984 after working in the retailing , packaging and Banking Industries , in his spare time , he 's a keen Jazz musician and photographer . |
| 10 | A Leading aircraftsman , he joined the RAF when it was formed in 1918 after transferring from the Royal Flying Corps . |
| 11 | They are sure to be stiff after riding for the first time . ’ |
| 12 | Khaled Ahmad Asakra , an 18-year-old Palestinian , was arrested on May 1 after confessing to the killing of a French tourist , Anne Ley , in Bethlehem on April 30 . |
| 13 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 14 | A member of the political bureau of the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) , Mohammed Adabo Kabo , was dismissed on Dec. 23 after protesting at the killings , which had also prompted ( on Dec. 18 ) an expression of " severe condemnation " from the French Foreign Ministry . |
| 15 | ‘ He had been off-colour after running in the Mildmay at Sandown earlier in the season and we found that he had broken blood vessels , ’ said Gaselee . |
| 16 | He returned there in 1945 after serving with the Royal Artillery throughout the war . |
| 17 | Melanie Henwood joined the King 's Fund Institute as a Fellow in Health Policy Analysis in July 1989 after working at the Family Policy Studies Centre since 1983 . |
| 18 | According to the annual report on the Greek economy published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) on Jan. 31 , 1990 [ see also below ] , the position of the public sector deteriorated during 1989 after improving during the period of the two-year austerity plan of 1986-87 . |
| 19 | ‘ It must have been a bad dream , Oliver , ’ said Harry , breathless after running through the fields . |
| 20 | Group gearing , net of cash balances , was 70% at 30th September 1988 after bringing into the balance sheet factored debts in Sekers ( previously shown off balance sheet ) to conform with Group policy . |
| 21 | Among the defendants was Licio Gelli , former grand master of the Italian P-2 masonic lodge [ see also pp. 31045-46 ] , who had been extradited from Switzerland in February 1988 after surrendering to the authorities there [ see p. 35591-92 ] . |
| 22 | If locally at y the second part of eqn ( 6.16 ) is to be satisfied after transforming to the unprimed coordinates we must therefore have . |
| 23 | The external conjugate was not , however , related to cardiovascular mortality after adjusting for head circumference whereas the trend in cardiovascular mortality with head circumference remained significant after allowing for the external conjugate diameter . |