Example sentences of "[noun pl] after [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 2 | Instead , to strengthen leg muscles after the long summer break , daily walks along the streets of Islington , dressed in ordinary clothes , were the practice , the distance being increased each day . |
| 3 | Overnight , as passengers slept soundly in their cabins after a long day ashore , or the more hardy danced and gave in to the temptations of the midnight buffet , the Ocean Empress had weighed anchor and begun to move south again , until , shortly after dawn , the silence of the engines pronounced her arrival in Tenerife off the west coast of Africa . |
| 4 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 5 | People vary in their ability to revert to being outgoing , social creatures after a long time of semi-confinement to the house . |