Example sentences of "and [verb] after the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She struggled up , wiping a lump of mud from her forehead , and gazed after the car , which had not even slowed down . |
| 2 | He still felt naked and drained after the speech , yet now was the time to be weaving more individuals firmly into thy spreading fabric . |
| 3 | To Iron Josh , stiff and bruised after the discomfort of his journey in the cart , even a kitchen chair had looked inviting . |
| 4 | Make people feel that their own poor life is ever so little , beautiful and poetical ; then they will begin to turn and seek after the treasures of beauty and poetry outside and above it . |
| 5 | That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery . |
| 6 | The male guards the next , aerates the eggs and looks after the larvae until they are able to feed for themselves . |
| 7 | Acknowledgements are brief and appear after the reference list ; grant and contribution numbers are not allowed . |
| 8 | I wound down the window of the car and shouted after the woman , ‘ Kilturk ? ’ |
| 9 | In fact so much bullion was melted down and dispersed after the heist that this Christmas many women could be given jewellery made from the haul . |
| 10 | In the event , he was defeated and fled after the death of most of his forces . |
| 11 | The branch falls through it into the shaft and drops after the man . |
| 12 | Like the little half-eaten ostrich so expertly reconstructed by Gould back in England , much of what Darwin had seen on the voyage had to be reassessed and re-evaluated after the event . |
| 13 | The devaluation was intended to assist a revival of exports and came after the announcement of October 's trade figures , the worst since January 1987 . |
| 14 | The exceptional strength and durability of Roman concrete was due to the substance pozzolana , a volcanic ash , found in quantity in the volcanic areas near Rome and Naples and named after the village of Pozzuoli where the best quality supplies were available . |
| 15 | Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock . |
| 16 | Industrial markets — Relatively small number of customers ; need for technical advice and support after the sale ; possible lengthy negotiations on price between manufacturer and customer , dialogue required where product is to be custom built . |
| 17 | one chap feeding the mill and one the other chap then giving him the and the other chap was working below taking away the straw and looking after the grain . |
| 18 | They take care of the transport and looking after the invalids . |
| 19 | For a long while , I could see her in the rear-view mirror , standing in the dusty road in her long white dress , holding her child and looking after the Felder . |
| 20 | Following his survey of relatively low-income home owners , he argues that the domestic division of labour within homes is indeed ‘ strongly patterned by gender , with child care ( where relevant ) , laundry and house cleaning being strongly associated with women while gardening and looking after the car tend to be predominantly male activities ’ . |
| 21 | So you would feel probably the best mechanism would be the appointment of somebody who is given that responsibility and solely that responsibility of reporting and looking after the interest of the deferred pensioners . |
| 22 | The store manager saw his role as increasing productivity , whereas the personnel manager saw her role as organising and motivating staff towards the organisation 's objectives and looking after the staff 's well-being . |
| 23 | She said , ‘ Every year I end up taking a pair of rubber gloves with me and looking after the children , and every year I end up coming home feeling exhausted . |
| 24 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
| 25 | If you 're the one who 's stayed at home all day , tackling the house and looking after the kids , you 'll want to celebrate the homecoming of everyone else and the chance the talk over the day 's happenings . |
| 26 | Women are doing what they can in the controlled zones — this means anything from making tortillas and looking after the kids to political and military work . |
| 27 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 28 | She was paying little attention to her normal ‘ household duties ’ such as child care , shopping , and looking after the house . |
| 29 | I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’ |
| 30 | The main features of the 1990 budget , originally introduced on Sept. 19 , 1989 , and reintroduced substantially unaltered and adopted after the formation of the new centre-left government in November [ for which see p. 37050 ] , were the following : ( i ) a general cut in income taxes by 10 percentage points , including a reduction in the top rate from 72 to 60 per cent ; and ( ii ) a major programme for cleaning up the environment . |