Example sentences of "so [adv] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moped so badly after your father died . ’ |
| 2 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |
| 3 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 4 | They also extend the traditions of the area — the working over of old dumps by ‘ dressers ’ has taken place since ancient times and will , no doubt , continue to do so long after the mines close down . |
| 5 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 6 | Now , not so long after the rebels won , their war has been ignominiously recast in official Arab circles as a training school for religious terrorists . |
| 7 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 8 | They also maintained that it would be impossible to hold fair trials so long after the alleged crimes had been committed . |
| 9 | Not only men , but women and children too knitted stockings , socks , shirts , gloves , cravats and other fabrics on a frame in their cottage and continued to do so long after steam power had been applied to their craft during the middle years of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 11 | But they do so only after they 've had their seven rehearsals . ’ |
| 12 | She could n't even feel resentful that he slept so peacefully after she had suffered a sleepless night of angst . |
| 13 | In spite of all the work done by Ludwig Prandtl and his colleagues , it was a daring step to commit the resources of the mighty Germania yards , in early 1924 , to install two metal cylinders more than 12 m tall on the elegant schooner Buckau , so soon after the idea had ignited Flettner 's imagination in 1921 . |
| 14 | Coming to that realisation so soon after her panic at drowning did n't seem to worry her as much as it should have done . |
| 15 | ‘ How strange , ’ the majordomo was saying , ‘ another honourable Inquisitor presenting his credentials so soon after we have seen the last one off ! ’ |
| 16 | He was voicing a desire which he feared might only bring him Meh'Lindi 's contempt — so soon after she had honoured and anointed him with her body . |
| 17 | Thus , so soon after the passage of the Reform Act was it shown to have done nothing to realise the aspirations of working men . |
| 18 | According to Miller Freeman 's vice-president Don Pazour , the sale of M&T Books so soon after its acquisition by Miller Freeman was due to the resignation of Linda Hanger , who had been ‘ the driving force behind the books ’ division under M&T Publishing . |
| 19 | Would they dare risk alienating public opinion so soon after they had regained it ? |
| 20 | ‘ And so soon after we were discussing it , too , but then you keep doing it . |
| 21 | ‘ My love , ’ he said , ‘ what was so urgent that you had to summon me so soon after we parted yesterday afternoon ? |
| 22 | ‘ Must we wrangle so soon after we meet again , Papa ? |
| 23 | Andrew Walker was bound to have Veronica 's address and telephone number but a request for them , so soon after she had been asking questions about the woman 's husband , might well arouse his suspicions . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd hate to lose you , so soon after I 've found you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ In coming to his friend 's assistance so soon after he himself had suffered a serious heart attack he put his health at risk . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do you imagine you can compel my silence so easily after such an announcement ? ’ demanded Theda furiously . |
| 27 | The recent box-office calamity of Marjorie Morningstar , was another example ; the big-budget Warner Brothers adaptation of Herman Wouk 's best-selling novel , starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly , ended up so dismally after such a huge build-up that Natalie began seeing her analyst at lunchtimes as well . |
| 28 | Retail demand is quite heavy and is likely to remain so even after the novelty value of the new car has worn off . |
| 29 | They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products . |
| 30 | It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned . |