Example sentences of "[adv] after [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported on April 8 that Michel Mokuba Bokulo Mena , who had been appointed in the Cabinet reshuffle on March 28 , had resigned as Minister of Institutional Reforms apparently after disagreeing with the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | There is a small harbour , and skeletons of boats decorate the stony beach , the road coming alongside after passing between the terraced cottages of the village . |
| 3 | He brought up Jason alone after splitting from the boy 's mother Sue and said I 'm very proud I 'm very pro that sort of thing ohm |
| 4 | The field was laid out in strips about two feet apart and only after pushing into the crop did I realize that the plants were trained up a trellis of almost invisible wires and that I was in a hop field — a ‘ beer field ’ , as Duncan would have called it . |
| 5 | Long after breaking with the Campaign Group , Beckett was still offering comradely greetings to its supporters in its party conference newsletter . |
| 6 | For Lynda Hall , 43 , and her husband Alan , have just bought the 200-year-old Navigation Inn , at Buxworth , which actress Pat Phoenix , who played Elsie for 22 years , took over not long after going into the Street . |
| 7 | I mentioned the incident at Land 's End and was told that it was not unusual for student pilots who dare to stray into the military areas to receive a safe wingtip and tail helicopter escort home , leaving the student a gibbering wreck long after returning to the club house . |
| 8 | ‘ He is very much in contention for a first-team place , although he may not think so after playing for the juniors . |
| 9 | It did , especially after lolling in the bath with the first of several Ruddles . |
| 10 | Shortly after moving into The Kilns , Minto had engaged a gardener to help her with the eight acres of ground . |
| 11 | For this writer it began when , shortly after stepping off the plane in Johannesburg , it became apparent that a few stitches sustained by the All Black winger Terry Wright in a training accident was deemed as worthy a front page news story as the continuous blood-letting in the Natal townships between rival ANC and Inkatha factions . |
| 12 | You had organized it yourself shortly after graduating from the conducting class at the Musikhochschule in Vienna ? |
| 13 | Shortly after landing at the site , McGuinness met W/C Parsons , Embarkation Officer at Glasgow ; S/L Orr , Maintenance Command ; F/L Morgan , 50 Squadron , S/L Wall from the Air Ministry and S/L Hughes who was in charge of the RAF ground crews tasked with maintaining the Spitfires during their transfer . |
| 14 | Something permanent had clearly been created in Virginia and , shortly after coming to the throne in 1625 , Charles I did what he could to stabilize the situation by declaring it a royal colony and taking into his own hands the power to appoint the governor . |
| 15 | I was a passenger in a microlight and just after taking off the engine spluttered and we had to make an emergency landing . |
| 16 | Bardot , 58 , took a drugs overdose on Saturday just after featuring in the magazine as a ‘ happy wife , mother and grandmother ’ . |
| 17 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 18 | TWO MEN were questioned by police soon after riding round the town on stolen motor bikes . |
| 19 | SHE HAD BOUGHT THE BATHROOM mirror soon after moving into the flat . |
| 20 | The only thing Father Dolan had been able to tell her was that her mother had died of a fever soon after arriving in the town ; he himself had learned this from the constable . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , a cyclist was still fighting for his life yesterday after crashing in the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 22 | A CYCLIST was still fighting for his life yesterday after crashing in the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 23 | When the mouthbrooder picks up her eggs she gathers up the Synodontis eggs with them which she incubates inside her mouth along with her own fry until they are released as tiny replicas of their natural parents — possibly after preying on the cichlid fry while they are inside her mouth . |
| 24 | Some couples feel they enjoy intercourse more after abstaining during the fertile time . |
| 25 | Frank Walker retired two years ago after working for the South Tees Health authority for 23 years . |
| 26 | And a lot of times , particularly after shooting in the east , they were cut off from getting to Damascus so they had to put their tapes on the boat to Larnaca and up-link it from Cyprus . |
| 27 | As solid as a rock and a very tough competitor , Clohessy would have been a perfect choice , particularly after going through the pre-Tour fitness regime . |
| 28 | On the other hand , different types of household have very different incomes , even after standardizing for the number of people in the household and including all sources of income : households of elderly women living alone are poorer than other types of household . |
| 29 | For instance , Fox and Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have noted that a clear North-South contrast in mortality rates remained even after standardizing for the socio-economic character of areas . |
| 30 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |