Example sentences of "[noun prp] after a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt good when I returned in March after a long absence from the game with a knee injury . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt good when I returned in March after a long absence from the game with a knee injury . |
| 3 | Doctors had decided to carry out a forceps delivery on her mother 15 year old Sally Taylor after a long labour . |
| 4 | Mary and Noel Redpath from East Belfast lost their son Gary after a long illness one month before Brian 's horrific murder in 1973 . |
| 5 | ‘ Whenever we came back to Woodbrook after a long absence , the servants would always have a fire and a meal ready to greet us , ’ Phoebe 's sister Antoinette once told me . |
| 6 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 7 | Alan Beatt , Weidenfeld 's representative in Scotland and northern England until his early retirement on health grounds , died on 13th December after a long illness . |
| 8 | Derek Warwick , returning to Interlagos after a long absence , found it tough going in his Footwork Mugen Honda and ended up 19th on the provisional grid . |
| 9 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 10 | Brave Melanie Dean , of Fransham Road , Pallister Park , died in January after a long battle against cystic fibrosis . |
| 11 | If you are taken to Harmondsworth after a long journey and several hours of interrogation by Immigration Officers , there is nowhere for you to lie down and rest . |
| 12 | MICHAEL Wittet , former senior partner for Scotland of Deloitte , Haskins & Sells , chartered accountants , died at his home in Edinburgh on Monday after a long illness . |
| 13 | JE : Though this role was written for you , in a sense , did you find it difficult having to sing Britten after a long career in the standard repertoire ? |
| 14 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |
| 15 | Marion McManus , the wife of television actor , Mark McManus , died today in Glasgow after a long fight against cancer . |
| 16 | We have just arrived in Peking after a long day 's travel . |