Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] after [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The option of staying at school or returning after the birth of the baby is often not a very popular one . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) attitudes towards the nature of representation , ( 2 ) behaviour within council groups , ( 3 ) preference for governing the city as a whole or looking after the interests of a ward , ( 1 ) preference for dealing with general policy issues or with individual problems , ( 5 ) preference for specialisms in one aspect of council work or generalizing over them all , and ( 6 ) attitudes towards the involvement of community organisations in the government of the city ( Newton 1976a:114 ) . |
| 3 | I had met him every day of my life in England : punching my ticket on a ‘ bus , cutting my hair , selling me an evening newspaper or looking after the engine of my aeroplane . |
| 4 | It was the kind of secondary schooling that the Local Education Authorities wanted for their new secondary schools created or adopted after the Act of 1902 , and by 1944 the image of the grammar school as the path to success was finally embedded in popular imagination , and in the practical politics of the Labour party . |
| 5 | But would n't it have been a good idea to ask a relative or neighbour to go with her or to look after the children who were not going to receive attention ? |
| 6 | Replace any belt or harness after an accident . |
| 7 | If that was the case then the caveman 's body would need to be ready to dive into the bush , or run after the rabbit , catch it , and kill it for food . |
| 8 | Data recording and assessment of results were carried out by a member of the unit who did not participate in endoscopic treatment or looked after the patients . |
| 9 | 4 Go to a party in old clothes , then put on your best suit or dress after the party . |
| 10 | Since the counter-insurgency campaigns of the early 1980s , the country has become highly militarized , and those indigenous groups which have returned from hiding or exile after the destruction of their homes and villages have been strictly controlled . |
| 11 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 12 | Yet the chaos that occurred after the election , when Brown was put into the DEA with the grand title of First Secretary of State , showed to what paltry use Wilson had put his unique background ( unique , that is , since the death of his predecessor , Hugh Gaitskell ) as skilled Whitehall technocrat and top-flight politician and parliamentarian . |
| 13 | It rose to its highest point of 5.4 per cent in 1984 , falling back again to 4.7 per cent in 1988 , and with a threat of a further decline to the lowest point since the Second World War of 4.4 per cent in 1989 — despite all the Conservative Party 's claims to be the party that looks after the defence of the realm . |
| 14 | Acting for a seller of leasehold property , it may be that your client , as lessee , for instance , of a flat in a large block , holds a share in a management company that looks after the maintenance of the building , etc ( see Chapter 12 on leases ) . |
| 15 | ‘ She wanted to be doing things like playing on her home computer rather than looking after the rest of the family . |
| 16 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 17 | Even his fond parents do n't call him that when he rampages through the flat creating mayhem , and Joyce was recently heard to declare that she 'd rather do Rob 's tax returns than look after the baby . |
| 18 | There were the lavish bouquets , with their personal messages , that arrived after every date — and his sensitivity in not pushing their relationship too fast . |
| 19 | He had given a more or less lucid report of everything that happened after the moon rose . |
| 20 | Kelston is being sold by a descendent of Joseph Neeld , Michael Neeld , who , with his father , farms the part of the estate that survives after the ravages of death duties in the decades after the war . |
| 21 | What happens in many of the significant films that emerge after the war is that the claims of the community and the individual are set against each other , bringing together Ealing realism and Gainsborough melodrama in a tremendously fruitful , if brief and explosive , relationship . |
| 22 | Next year , they say , the loss could be anywhere between horrible and horrendous , depending on the outcome of negotiations for a new national television contract to replace the one that expires after the end of this season . |
| 23 | The inspectorate er men I do n't know whether it 's the same as the one that looked after the coal field and all that , but erm we we had an inspector coming round every so often anyway . |
| 24 | It was er you know they came with a big traction engine and the thrashing mill and then they they got up early in the morning and there was the man that looked after the thrashing mill and fork from the carts onto the onto the mill . |
| 25 | The one that died after the war |
| 26 | Would they be pre-conflict borders , the borders on the map , Yugoslav internal federal borders , or the borders that exist after the conflict and the damage that took place during the capture of towns such as Osijek and Vukovar ? |
| 27 | Such an interpretation is not merely a case of reading some preferred assumption into the silence on the subject of the Miller 's relationship with the Reeve that descends after the Reeve has finished his tale . |
| 28 | She struggled up , wiping a lump of mud from her forehead , and gazed after the car , which had not even slowed down . |
| 29 | It is a poor house Ellen and not clean but it is cheap and furnished after a fashion and best of all lies next to the Casa Guidi which raised my spirits . |
| 30 | He still felt naked and drained after the speech , yet now was the time to be weaving more individuals firmly into thy spreading fabric . |