Example sentences of "but after [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is common for the gearchange to be stiff , but after 3000 miles I would have expected the ‘ newness ’ to have bedded in . |
| 2 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 3 | This legislation requires that people for the first thirteen weeks that they are unemployed have the right to look for a job which they have experience in and enjoy doing , but after 13 weeks they are required to take any job that comes along . |
| 4 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 5 | At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women . |
| 6 | Well you 've gone onto social security but but after two weeks it 's flew . |
| 7 | At the start North Down man Ian Lyle shadowed Rowan but after two miles he lost contact and Albertville 's Paddy Branagh took up the pursuit , moving to within 30 metres of Rowan . |
| 8 | for the first thirteen weeks of unemployment people are allowed to look for jobs that they want to do or are skilled or experienced to do but after thirteen weeks they will be compelled to take any job that comes along . |
| 9 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 10 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 11 | But after 27 days he has travelled 270 miles and on the 28th day he travels the remaining 30 miles and reaches land before he goes to sleep . |
| 12 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 13 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 14 | Figure 3.4 At birth , herring gull chicks will peck equally at models of adult bills of either herring or laughing gulls ; but after seven days they have developed a preference for the model of the adult of their own species . |
| 15 | The castle was believed to be impregnable but after seven days it was taken on 6 July and restored to Constantine de Born . |
| 16 | For a few horrible moments I thought the motor would n't fire , but after several pulls it caught , then I just hooked my overnight bag over one shoulder , took the tiller and made for the shore , which looked so close that I felt I could have swum across . ’ |
| 17 | This Leo rejected , but after further negotiations he did suppress the archbishopric of Lichfield , and this was accepted by an English synod at Clofesho in 803 . |
| 18 | Gordon Beck , spokesman for the Anthony Nolan Research Centre , said : ‘ The relationship between donor and patient is confidential but after 12 months we allow correspondence and we pass on messages from both sides . |
| 19 | When polluted rain was substituted by clean rain , the ‘ bleeding ’ of sulphate from the soil reduced 50 per cent but after 36 months it still continued at up to seven times the rate of input . |
| 20 | But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’ |