Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [noun] after [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also insect pests and diseases increase when the same crops are grown year after year . |
| 2 | IMO it has been demonstrated time after time that Strachan is pretty useless on the left ( even though he put in a nice cross for Hodge on saturday ) ) Even in the scum match , Strachan looked just a little too late and too slow in most situations , and I understand from the match reports that he has n't improved since . |
| 3 | But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time . |
| 4 | Evidence of this could be seen week after week from 1989 onwards . |
| 5 | With fertilisers the same crops can be grown year after year on the same fields and still they give high yields . |
| 6 | The fragrance can be revitalised time after time with oils supplied ( £2.99 . ) |
| 7 | We must provide the means , the equipment and the training , and that must be maintained year after year . |
| 8 | I have also seen the excellent work being done on prevention in schools and with young people to get across the message , which must be repeated year after year as children come into the consuming group , about the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 9 | Victims of assault , wounding , robbery and sexual crimes were also given counselling but by far the greatest number of people ( 4,835 ) were given help after house burglaries . |
| 10 | Indeed , it had been a violent election campaign by post-war standards and the columns of papers like The Times were filled day after day by reports of ‘ Labour rowdyism ’ . |
| 11 | As the sacrifices were performed day after day , year after year , as the Day of Atonement came and went , Israel was constantly reminded of the sin which cut them off from God 's presence . |
| 12 | It is most often used where a salesperson is faced with the same objection being raised time after time . |
| 13 | This leads to the applicant 's second ground for supporting the judgment under appeal , namely that whatever the words of the Act may mean , they must be understood as qualified by a tacit exception , preserving the ancient right of silence in its particular manifestation of the immunity from being asked questions after charge , previously embodied in the Judges ' Rules and carried forward into paragraph 16.5 of Code C. |
| 14 | While window-shopping in Manhattan or on Broadway , they would find that they were being followed block after block , then , having sized up her figure and made certain the Girl was aware she was being followed , the man would walk ahead , glance round to check that her face was as good as her body and start a conversation . |
| 15 | Maps do not portray the existence and aspirations of Palestinians , Armenians , Druze , Souryanis , Assyrians , Bedouin , Kurds and many others for whom the real map of the Middle East is written on the heart , where identity and hope are nurtured generation after generation . |
| 16 | The assumption that the same constituent game is repeated period after period also implies that collusion , if achieved , is perfectly stable and never breaks down . |
| 17 | January 1936 : In South Wales , particularly in the Rhonda Valley the tramp of thousands of feet was heard day after day . |
| 18 | This explains why the general election was delayed time after time : clearly , all that mattered was the recession . |
| 19 | That was said year after year . |
| 20 | In Ease and Endurance , the continuation of the autobiography which Boulestin wrote in French under the title of A Londres Naguère and which was published after his death in a somewhat harum-scarum translation by Robin Adair ( at one point Adair has Boulestin exploring the Cecil Hotel in a taxi ) , he tells how the place was crammed night after night with customers from the Savoy , Ritz and Carlton belt , stage stars , artists , writers , royalty and High Bohemia . |