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 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 4 | More than 40 detectives were assigned to the cases after the attempted murder of Candice last June . |
| 5 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is true that there were unforeseen obstacles for Hibs to overcome — not least of which was an ankle injury to goalkeeper Chris Reid who was stretchered off after 37 minutes after a 50-50 challenge with Colin West — but it was difficult to disagree with Alex Miller 's belief that Hibs shot themselves in the foot . |
| 8 | Contractile activity increases promptly with food ingestion ( within one to three minutes after the first mouthful of food ) and lasts several hours after ingestion of a meal . |
| 9 | A warning was telephoned to the Samaritans and the BBC seven minutes after the first explosion . |
| 10 | Just 45 minutes after the first emergency call , replacement product is with the customer . |
| 11 | Twenty minutes after the first radio signal , Lawton finished his pre-flight checks . |
| 12 | One hit was scored against Scharnhorst , but both ships hit the old liner time and time again and 14 minutes after the first shot , it was all over . |
| 13 | In most subjects a second bolus containing a different quantity of bicarbonate to the first was infused 30 minutes after the first bolus . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The 151 men on the platform were called to muster stations on Monday night for almost 30 minutes after the second leak . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Minutes after the hours-long rescue in August 1990 a flash storm filled the drain with water . |
| 19 | Thirty minutes after the appointed hour , Brady arrived to say he would be a further ten minutes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The rats were killed 60 minutes after the last pulse and the duodena were removed to determine the macro- and microscopic scoring of the mucosal lesions as discussed above . |
| 22 | Sixty minutes after the last pulse , the rats were killed and their duodena subjected to evaluation of the mucosal lesions as detailed above . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Sainz roars on MOTORSPORT : Spaniard Carlos Sainz extended his lead to 18 minutes after the fourth leg of the Kenya Safari Rally yesterday . |
| 25 | GMT , thirty minutes after the original attack . |
| 26 | The advice offered in Chapter 8 on more effective reading was that you should only begin to take notes after a first reading — when you 've grasped the structure and got the gist of the topic being dealt with . |
| 27 | All sorts of people go to see performers after a first night . |
| 28 | It was very cool and quiet in the woods after the bland sunshine of the meadows . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is striking that much of the evidence belongs to the two or three generations after the papal reform . |