Example sentences of "[noun sg] after [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara , the national 18 and under champion in 1989 , collected the £300 prize money after going through the tournament without dropping a set , and defeating top seed Sarah Bentley in the semi final . |
| 2 | The American visitor wrote out the cheque after staying at the £16-a-night City of London hostel . |
| 3 | An hour after walking into the operating theatre , patients are usually ready to walk out , with none of the effects of a general anaesthetic . |
| 4 | A 7 year old boy was admitted as an emergency case after falling from the side of a lorry . |
| 5 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |
| 6 | You may make a switch of this kind after starting at the Bar . |
| 7 | From the liberal wing of the Ukrainian Communist Party , Fokin was regarded as a compromise candidate and was elected unopposed in the third ballot ( he had re-entered the contest after withdrawing from the second ballot ) , after the communist hardliners ' candidate , Aleksandr Bulyanda , had been persuaded to stand down . |
| 8 | Samantha Forsythe , prosecuting , said Williams and two other men broke into Keele 's biology department after driving from the North-West in a stolen car . |
| 9 | But the company 's Canadian parent , The Thomson Corporation , lost ground on its publishing side after providing for the sale or closure of titles in the UK and north America . |
| 10 | If the decision of the Secretary of State as to the correct tariff after going through the consultation process is so out of touch with reality that it is irrational then , as in Ex parte Handscomb , that decision could be the subject of judicial review . |
| 11 | police said the attacker probably planned to rape [ the 14-year-old schoolgirl ] in his car after reading about the ordeal of the motorway monster 's victims . |
| 12 | If a house is bought this way all the surveys and investigations should be carried out first , and you must be ready to sign and exchange contracts on the day of the auction after paying over the 10 per cent deposit . |
| 13 | Also back on the scene is veteran spinner Keith Madeley , who has changed his mind after retiring from the county set-up |
| 14 | Hateley was shown the red card for pushing away defender Rudi Cossey , who indulged in some play-acting after tumbling to the ground . |
| 15 | Albert Popple had decided to go down the Lamb and Flag after walking round the block several times . |
| 16 | Because she had to drive the RFFS vehicle , the crash crew person had to don the protective clothing after arriving at the scene . |
| 17 | Defender turned star striker Paul Warhurst passed a fitness test after recovering from the groin injury that forced him to pull out of the England squad . |
| 18 | Rainey , seeking his fourth straight world title , slid off the Santamonica circuit after leading for the first third of a race run in dry , sunny conditions . |
| 19 | I ask this question after reading in the Echo about their latest crazy scheme sending out instructions to all child-minders that they must feed their young charges ‘ culture food ’ . |
| 20 | Table IV shows the rates of sickness absence by grade after adjusting for the health related behaviours ( smoking habits and frequency of alcohol consumption ) , ethnic group , work characteristics , and social circumstances outside work which predicted rates of sickness absence . |
| 21 | The vacancy had been occasioned by the untimely departure of James Haldane , the professor of church history at St. Andrews , who had been burned to death in his room after retiring for the night leaving a candle burning . |
| 22 | I was n't going to turn her out with nowhere to go , you know , young lady — but perhaps it 's a bit hard on an old lady to go into a new place after living in the same cottage most of her life . |
| 23 | They also said that maybe Strandli will push Wallace for the first team place after scoring in the last 2 reserve matches . |
| 24 | This means that there is no significant reordering of the chain conformation when crystallization takes place after cooling from the melt , which would be required if a regularly folded chain structure was to be constructed in the lamellae . |
| 25 | The tailrace empties through a 100 yard tunnel that rejoins the stream after running under the mill house . |
| 26 | 14 year old Philip is said to have made a ’ terrific ’ recovery after falling from the same chair lift , but he keeps asking why it happened . |
| 27 | North London 's status is now under threat after failing to travel to Leicester , as they have to reapply for League membership after finishing in the bottom four places of the division . |
| 28 | Repeat the viewing process after walking across the rug a few times , as this will show how it responds to use . |
| 29 | In the schlieren method , parallel light is again used , but is brought to a focus after passing through the fluid . |
| 30 | Lorry driver Mr. Leslie Parsons , 51 , lost control of the 28-ton lorry after colliding with the H-reg. car . |