Example sentences of "after [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After introductory nods between the four men , Billy went to the bar to get a round in . |
| 2 | It is characteristic of Eliot to move in After Strange Gods from the savage notion of taboo , which he sees as having decayed in our time so that it has become ‘ used … in an exclusively derogatory sense ’ , to the Christian notion of ‘ heresy ’ as being vital to the interpretation of the modern world and to the health of the ( mainly Christian-based ) ‘ tradition ’ . |
| 3 | IF WILLIAM CAXTON , the father of British printing , were to come back to life after 500 years in the grave , he would see a lot of changes . |
| 4 | And it was the end of the road for former council chairman Archie McAuley , who crashed at the polls after 32 years on the council . |
| 5 | Mr Byrne joined the order six years ago after 32 years in the Green Howards . |
| 6 | After 410 minutes in the Premier League without a goal Ipswich threw their usual caution to the wind in an effort to check Saints ' run of five successive home wins . |
| 7 | The Wadeville killing , the bloodiest in recent months , came a day after political leaders from the Government , the African National Congress and other groups agreed on terms for a transitional executive council ( TEC ) which will give the black opposition a powerful voice in Government decisions . |
| 8 | Eventually , after eleven years with the Palace , George became the manager at Orient and a feature of his time at Brisbane Road was his regular purchasing of Palace players ( eg Phil Hoadley , Gerry Queen , John Jackson ) to help keep his club in Division Two . |
| 9 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 10 | At a meeting with the director of Asian Affairs of Papua New Guinea 's Foreign Ministry in Marauke , Aceh Province , on Feb. 11 , Irian Jaya Deputy Governor Sudrajat Nataatmaja agreed to accept the return of 208 Marauke villagers who had been forced to flee to Papua New Guinea after armed clashes between the security forces and members of the separatist Free Aceh Movement ( GKN ) on Jan. 24 . |
| 11 | The latest riots erupted after armed battles in the southern city of Kismayu on Monday between a local warlord , Omer Jess , an Aideed backer , and his rival , Hersi , known as Morgan . |
| 12 | The latest riots erupted after armed battles in the southern city of Kismayu on Monday between a local warlord , Omer Jess , an Aideed backer , and his rival , Hersi , known as Morgan . |
| 13 | Kernaghan said there were a lot of tired legs after 120 minutes on the heavy Old Trafford pitch . |
| 14 | Now , after thirty-seven hours in the air , he was touching down in Salt Lake City . |
| 15 | He retired as first jockey to Stan Mellor in 1977 , after eight seasons in the top 10 . |
| 16 | The work was not written in liturgical order , and Mozart 's own part in it breaks off after eight bars of the Lachrymosa . |
| 17 | Her sons were delighted to see her , and were as warm with her as they were distant with their wives , greeted , after eight weeks on the river , with diffident handshakes . |
| 18 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 19 | The enthusiasm he first showed is visibly more jaded now but that 's not surprising after eight months in the spotlight . |
| 20 | The Scot forged into a 6-5 lead after eight ends of the opening set but Allcock grabbed the double he needed for a 7-6 win , before quickly putting the second out of Muir 's reach . |
| 21 | GAIL McMILLAN 's Stranraer won the Henderson Bishop Trophy at Ayr yesterday , beating Janette Wilson 's Stirling 10-4 after eight ends of the final . |
| 22 | It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care . |
| 23 | Feelings were being expressed freely in some quarters that the whole matter had been one of ‘ revenge ’ for support shown to the W family after eight children from the family of fifteen had been taken away three months before . |
| 24 | AFTER eight years as The Times man in the north of England , Peter Davenport has left ‘ The Thunderer ’ to become a partner in the expanding Harrogate public relations , design and contract publishing company Paul Sowerby Associates . |
| 25 | Other offerings include the entry-level Organiser II portable range , which after eight years on the market saw sales drop to £10.3m from £13.8m . |
| 26 | After eight years in the public sector , Cuckney was more than ready to become involved with private industry , but he firmly believes more top executives in the UK ought to join the traffic between the two sectors . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that it can seem at times as if half the figures on the red benches are comatose — a chastened Lady ( Barbara ) Wootton concluded after eight years in the place that at any one time about ten per cent of the participants in a debate were fast asleep — the quality of argument can be incomparably higher than in the House of Commons , and the pool of expertise available from the ennobled professors , judges , generals and bureaucrats makes for more informed contributions . |
| 28 | ONE can explain satisfactorily the uncorroded condition of Holland 1 , the Royal Navy 's first submarine , after 70 years at the bottom of the English Channel . |
| 29 | After further discussions with the teachers , covering attitudes , methods and topics ( ‘ If a few more people had understood what inflation meant , they might not have won the election' ) , about a quarter of the teachers remained clearly of the view that mathematics education is , and should be , politically neutral . |
| 30 | He graduated MD , CM in 1887 and after further wanderings in the USA and the West Indies returned to Australia . |