Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] after [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Walls built after the 1953 floods are getting old " , explained Peregrine . |
| 2 | Manville asked after a slight pause . |
| 3 | Just as PageMaker provides almost infinite control over each element of each page so Ventura looks after the complete document . |
| 4 | And it is hard not to think of one 's own horror at some of the things that the Irgun and Stern Gang are doing in Palestine , for instance , ’ David said after a long silence . |
| 5 | Lucy slept after the first few hours , and woke with a start from a nightmare where she was being chased and her feet were weighed down with heavy , heavy shoes . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's been five years since I won , ’ Levi said after the round , ‘ five years of struggling . |
| 7 | ‘ Both born in the Ukraine , you 'll notice , ’ Manville explained after a few seconds . |
| 8 | A small full-time staff based in St Albans looks after the day-to-day administration and finances of the Campaign and produced a monthly newspaper , What 's Brewing , and the annual Good Beer Guide . |
| 9 | Marjorie was already in England convalescing after a serious operation . |
| 10 | Scrambling to her feet , Ellie ran after the racing Terry , down the stairs , out the back door , across the grounds and in through the back door of the restaurant . |
| 11 | The children of the school regularly prepare and sing the Sunday Mass ; parents and school unite in preparing children for First Communion ; the Mothers and the Men have a variety of fund-raising and other tasks not least supporting each other ; the S.V.P. look after the elderly , and the senior citizens , particularly those who are housebound , pray for us all . |
| 12 | Robert started after the little boy . |
| 13 | Joseph Thomas , engineer , was born in Roche and came to Looe to retire after a distinguished career . |
| 14 | The USA announced on Dec. 22 that it also would lift a ban on sales of military technology to China enacted after the 1989 crackdown . |
| 15 | ‘ We are ready for any onslaught that the white authorities might try to launch against us , ’ Mr Rockman said after the first meeting in his home on Monday of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union . |
| 16 | Martha ran after the old woman , but she did not look round . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd like to help you , Mr Barnett , ’ Kingdom said after a lengthy silence , ‘ but I ca n't . |
| 18 | " Yes , I have plans , " Sara admitted after a little hesitation , but she did not elaborate on them . |
| 19 | The new county of Cleveland created after the local government re-organisation of 1974 has failed to create a sense of identity amongst its inhabitants and many still feel a sense of belonging to North Yorkshire . |
| 20 | The UN Human Rights Commission began discussion in late February of a report on Myanma prepared after a six-day visit by Sadako Ogata in November 1990 [ see p. 37931 for Ogata 's appointment in December as UN High Commissioner for Refugees ] . |
| 21 | Yugoslavia faded after an imaginative start and did not offer a serious threat until late in the game , when Mladenovic curled in a free-kick . |
| 22 | Force , for example , conveys an idea of coercion similar to that expressed by make in many of its uses , and yet , like cause , it is followed by the to infinitive : ( 159 ) An injury forced Skorich to quit after the 1949 season . |
| 23 | Reginald looked after the large estate , while Lady Dorothy took charge of the house and the twenty-three-acre garden . |
| 24 | ‘ The trouble is there is just one female wallaby in his compound so it may be he has followed his natural instinct to go in search of more , ’ Mr Hutchinson said after a day-long search . |
| 25 | Now there is additional competition for places in the FA Cup final , following the return to first-team duty of England Under-21 midfielder Gary Owers after a three months absence with a severe pelvic injury , and Welsh international Colin Pascoe , who makes his return after injury in tonight 's reserve match . |
| 26 | Pascoe looked after the vanishing figure . |
| 27 | The contrast with the Western civilization Japan encountered after the 1850s , imbued with the virtues of individualism and laissez faire , absolute moral values and the righteousness of an individual 's conduct in the eyes of God , seemed unbridgeable . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry , ’ Robbie ventured after a surreptitious glance at Fen 's set profile . |
| 29 | For the first ten minutes of the second half , we started playing a bit ( but at this time we needed 4 goals to go thorough ) and Whelan scored after a good cross by Kelly . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , if you 're serious about all this , ’ Anne murmured after a hesitant pause , ‘ there is my cottage in Wales . ’ |