Example sentences of "after [art] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived .
2 After the Danish referendum I am tempted to ask : What new Europe ?
3 At first glance , late Anglo-Saxon political history portrays a state riven by internal discord and highly vulnerable to external enemies : only fifty years after the Danish conquest it was subjugated again by the Normans .
4 And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses .
5 After the second treatment we saw by sonography a splitting of acoustic shadowing into three parts as a sign of fragmentation .
6 Torrential rain saw the going at Doncaster change to soft after the second race which pleased trainer Richard Hannon almost as much as his 3,212–1 treble supplied by Rajmapata , Flight Lieutenant and Tickerty 's Gift .
7 After the second course he was back on a normal diet , gaining weight rapidly .
8 After the second time she stared up at him , her eyes wide .
9 After the second time she fell asleep , on her front , her face against his chest .
10 While Rosa Guy makes some parts of her book easy to understand , it was only after the second time I read the book that I was able to give unanswerable questions an answer .
11 As Sherry writhed around on the canvas , Eubank was awarded a technical decision after the backward butt which later brought a £10,000 Boxing Board of Control fine .
12 To reach Bauen take the road that crosses the Reuss valley to the far side of railway , motorway and river heading for Seedorf Near Seedorf on the valley plain stands a picturesque gabled eighteenthcentury castle called A Fro after the Ticinese knight who had it built ; it is now used for occasions of state by the canton .
13 She does n't do anything special to look after the distinctive voice which has kept her in the music business for an astonishing 33 years .
14 You 're not telling me he 'd ridden all the way from Yorkshire after the gruelling day he 'd had , just to enjoy the pleasures of your delightful little body !
15 Reynolds waited in the small office that Diane appeared to share with four others ; after the windowless basement it seemed almost palatial .
16 The country is still on its knees , exhausted from 25 years of Ceaucescu 's oppression , and still trying to catch its breath after the extraordinary heroism which led to his overthrow .
17 The Brunei government on Jan. 6 ordered the release of six political prisoners who had been detained soon after the large-scale revolt which broke out in Brunei and other parts of British Borneo in 1962 [ see p. 19261 ; for release of 38 political detainees in 1988 see p. 36355 ] .
18 After the humiliating training they find themselves participating in a war they neither care about nor understand .
19 In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were .
20 Argyll and Bute district council did post warning notices at Loch Awe advising people to keep children and pets off the shore , but these were recently removed after the hot weather which had made the problem worse was over .
21 And his brother he was in the er Spanish Civil War , he was an officer , he was a miner , but he left to join the the Spanish Brigade and er he came back and of course but after the General Strike they would n't neither set him nor his brother on the pits you know .
22 At the same time , one must remember that there were other aspects of the economy which were virtually unaffected by war ; one sees this in the growth of the mining interest in the North-east , and most conspicuously in the continuation of trading connections with areas even after the political ties which had created them had been broken .
23 Citalia offers guests three apartments — each named after the fragrant herbs which grow around the house .
24 dried root strongly violet-scented increasing with age ; used as fixative in potpourri , in perfumery manufacture , as part of " frangipani " , the Italian perfume named after the tropical tree whose flowers have the same fragrance
25 So you , you 'd manage on fifteen thousand but then after the twelve months you 'd most probably want to go up to say seventy five percent of your earnings ?
26 Tolstoy wrote ‘ War and Peace ’ several decades after the Napoleonic battles he described .
27 After the usual pleasantries he took Mark along one of the labyrinth of corridors flanked with busts of the famous , and stopped before a heavy oak-panelled door attended by a liveried usher .
28 Certainly they would have had much to talk about , recalling voyages up the New England coast ; how they had dared storms together and mixed with tough Maine characters at the Jonesport summer ball , or how one of Peters 's cruises had been christened after the four B's which constituted their provisions : beans , bacon , bread , and bananas .
29 But Sgt Hinde , 37 , ran after the four men who fled from the Nissan .
30 The majority had no wish to stop work , particularly after the great strides which had been made in recent months , but they were n't going to be sat on either .
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