Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] after the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole affair , however , failed to gain the status of a diplomatic issue and started to calm down after the New Year holiday , leaving bad feeling between different groups of students . |
| 2 | BRISTOL City striker Leroy Rosenior accused referee Martin Bodenham of being ‘ a disgrace ’ because the official hassled him to get up after the former West Ham ace was knocked senseless . |
| 3 | That is what the Labour party intends to bring in after the next election . |
| 4 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 5 | Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed . |