Example sentences of "[adj] after a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EVA wedge at the heel gives good shock absorption , but I wish it travelled the whole length of the boot as I find the balls of my feet get sore after a long day on the hill . |
| 2 | We 're all called to understand ourselves , and to do this it 's necessary that we should understand one another , and this is only possible after a long while of living together . |
| 3 | ‘ We were benighted after a long day 's ride to Rannoch , ordering floor timber for the mill . ’ |
| 4 | When I woke up , I was on a train and feeling very uncomfortable after a long sleep . |
| 5 | This is noticeable after a long soak in the bath ; the pads of your fingertips will take on a wrinkled appearance . |
| 6 | When he died in Oxford 10 June 1975 after a long illness , he was engaged on a biography of his famous godfather . |
| 7 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 8 | On 2 October of the same year William Jowett Titford , great-grandson of William the Emigrant , wrote to his mother in London : ‘ The father of our relation W. C. Titford died at Frome June 6th after a long illness ’ . |
| 9 | The paramount chief or Vunivalu of Fiji , Ratu Sir George Cakobau , died on Nov. 25 , 1989 , at the age of 77 after a long illness . |
| 10 | Karen was tired after a long day , so she fell asleep while she was driving . |
| 11 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 12 | Ho Dam , 62 , one of North Korea 's most senior statesmen and , since 1983 a member of the politburo of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party and Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland , died in Pyongyang on May 11 after a long illness . |
| 13 | Sally Mugabe , 59 , the wife of President Robert Mugabe since 1961 , died on Jan. 27 after a long illness . |
| 14 | It had been a dry summer but the pool was full and the young people , many of them travel-stained after a long trek from Portofino , were lying in steaming baths , their toes poised to activate the gilded taps . |
| 15 | jostein was back in action last night for sheff utd after a long injury — came on on 2–0 to scum . |
| 16 | There is , however , plenty of evidence from contemporaries , as well as from historians , that not all husbands were drunken brutes and that many would willingly take a hand at quietening the baby for an hour or two after a long working day , or take tea up to their wives before leaving for work . |
| 17 | Peter Skinner , regional general manager , Asia and East Africa , died peacefully on Wednesday October 14th after a long illness which both he and his family had fought against with great courage . |