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 | 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 . |
| 3 | They are sure to be stiff after riding for the first time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It must have been a bad dream , Oliver , ’ said Harry , breathless after running through the fields . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |