Example sentences of "[noun pl] after [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't catch us until the last peak , Creag nan Damh , where a number of ridge-walkers were gathered , basking in the delight of the afternoon and resting on their laurels after a mammoth expedition . |
| 2 | Objectives ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) could consist of checks after a preliminary period of revision or practice carried out by the student on her own . |
| 3 | More than 40 detectives were assigned to the cases after the attempted murder of Candice last June . |
| 4 | The explosion came 20 minutes after a coded warning to British Rail at Waterloo , which sent police to the wrong location outside the Stock Exchange . |
| 5 | Tim Roberts , prosecuting , said Floyd had been arrested at the Darlington bus station ten minutes after the attempted robbery and it was obvious to the police he had been drinking . |
| 6 | But his exit from Ewood Park , barely ten minutes after the final whistle , was still at the stormy end of football management 's meteorological scale . |
| 7 | Said an excited David Bowie , minutes after the grand finale , ’ A lot of us would do a show like Live Aid every year until starvation was under control . |
| 8 | Minutes after the hours-long rescue in August 1990 a flash storm filled the drain with water . |
| 9 | Thirty minutes after the appointed hour , Brady arrived to say he would be a further ten minutes . |
| 10 | Allowing for the hour 's difference between French time and GMT , this meant that Thomas 's aircraft was shot down 30 minutes after the main attack . |
| 11 | ‘ The average train may leave 10 minutes late , but it has been proved that the average car journey sets off at least 40 minutes after the announced time . ’ |
| 12 | GMT , thirty minutes after the original attack . |
| 13 | It was very cool and quiet in the woods after the bland sunshine of the meadows . |
| 14 | ELITE United States troops backed up by a dozen helicopters stormed a building in south Mogadishu today and arrested 17 Somali militiamen after a brief gunfight , a United Nations military spokesman said . |
| 15 | It is striking that much of the evidence belongs to the two or three generations after the papal reform . |
| 16 | Ten of the party were found off Lyme Regis , Dorset , four hours after a major air and sea search . |
| 17 | Children between 3 and 5 years of age from Keneba village , the site of a Medical Research Council Nutritional Research Station in the Gambia ( n=106 ) , collected two urine specimens , one before and one within two hours after a standard breakfast consisting of fried dough , fresh bananas , and water . |
| 18 | The attacks on the convoy came only hours after a general ceasefire signed by Croats and Moslems . |
| 19 | Only 24 hours after a grim-faced Di had accompanied husband Charles on an official engagement in Korea , she was all smiles again . |
| 20 | On March 10 eight Roman Catholic bishops were arrested and interrogated for several hours after a pastoral letter , termed by the government as " seditious " , had been read out in churches . |
| 21 | The centre of Milton Keynes was sealed off for several hours after a coded telephone message warned of a bomb in the town 's main shopping centre . |
| 22 | Robert Dearlove died on Monday afternoon , 36 hours after a domestic incident at the home of his common-law wife Janet . |
| 23 | The volunteers fasted overnight , or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon . |
| 24 | The volunteers fasted overnight or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon . |
| 25 | All patients were examined between 0900 hours and 1100 hours after an overnight fast . |
| 26 | Chartered trains were due to leave Prague yesterday evening , but had failed to appear more than two hours after the appointed time . |
| 27 | Some hours after the alleged attack , Sharon McLean ran out of the Peace Gardens in Holt Street , near Wrexham police station , and pretended that she had just discovered the body , the jury was told . |
| 28 | John Gibson , 28 , a farmer , said he had come upon the two men in his barn eight hours after the alleged bank raid . |
| 29 | Six hours after the attempted TIPSS the patient developed fatal intraperitoneal haemorrhage from the liver parenchyma . |
| 30 | The time : three hours after the recent France vs England rugby international . |