Example sentences of "[vb base] after [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean after the armed police officers but before you ? |
| 2 | resolve and spirit after a few days without a bath , a week without a change of clothes . |
| 3 | Its stalkless flowers burst straight out of the branches and sometimes even the trunk , although in our climate they usually appear after the first leaves . |
| 4 | This perennial plant 's big , bold , green clumps , measuring 90cm/3ft high and the same in diameter , grow even bigger and more productive before they deteriorate after a few years ' growth , and are then best replaced . |
| 5 | The New Zealand government looks after the Cook Islands , Niue and Tokelau ; the Americans have Samoa , and the British look after the four islands of the Pitcairn group , selling stamps for the islanders to help them keep up their revenues . |
| 6 | Foreign artists tried hopelessly to find work , dig trenches , look after the four cows in the Bois de Boulogne , anything to earn a few francs . |
| 7 | ‘ You look after the little ones , girlie , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 9 | Another defensive manoeuvre is for the school to break in two in front of the predator , and then reform after the two sides have swum round behind the predator . |
| 10 | It 's very easy for young people to come into politics , full of enthusiasm and full up of get up get up and go and many of them get up and go after a few years . |
| 11 | I should add that there are also a great many flowers that seem to have rather negative meanings , such as the lovely little lawn daisy , which apparently means ‘ delay ’ , or ‘ return after a few days when I may give you an answer ’ — not necessarily the most suitable text to put on a bookmark . |