Example sentences of "after [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of September , the prime minister held talks with Mr Poul Schlüter , the Danish premier , and apparently concluded from these that the way was clear to reintroduce the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill soon after Parliament returned from the summer recess . |
| 2 | The crested ibis faces certain extinction in Japan after attempts to breed from the sole remaining pair have failed . |
| 3 | Firemen found the mother and son upstairs after flames swept through the house at Beechmount Pass just off the Falls Road . |
| 4 | With some aggressive buying , the futures market maintained a hefty premium all day and after hours trading in the June Footsie contract suggested that market is all set to go better again today . |
| 5 | Her hair had been freshly done , after hours spent at the Brighton branch of ‘ Back and Sides ’ . |
| 6 | The interior has been excellently restored after damage caused in the Second World War , though it has been done in a modern , simplified manner . |
| 7 | This may be a more physiological approach to the study of platelet aggregation as platelets are studied immediately after blood sampling in the presence of red cells , white cells and the heavier platelets that are removed by the centrifugation step in techniques using platelet-rich plasma . |
| 8 | Farmers in the village of Hinderwell near Whitby say their crops are being hit after rook shooting in the churchyard was halted by the rector . |
| 9 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 10 | Au pairs ' hours have to be fitted around language classes and travelling and so are unlikely to fit in with yours , unless you are prepared to compromise a great deal and have the energy after work to deal with the appalling homesickness experienced by young people living far from home . |
| 11 | She had spent the day nonstop before and after work preparing for the weekend . |
| 12 | The base for indexing is derived from the RPI of June 1984 and is ( after adjustment to allow for the rebased RPI ) 89.2 . |
| 13 | The band left us after lunch to play on the esplanade of Stirling Castle . |
| 14 | after sun soaking on the sandy Levante beach , it 's only a 200 metre walk to the hotel . |
| 15 | Even after visits made in the extra two hours are excluded there has still been an increase of nearly 39% in night visits from 1989 to 1992 , and the number of night visits has more than doubled in the 10 years since 1982 . |
| 16 | After years traipsing around the world they 'll now practise in Milton Keynes for their return to international competition . |
| 17 | In due course Dundee 's shipyards were to build Shackleton 's Terra Nova and another exploration vessel which , after years moored in the Thames , is now back home on display — Scott 's Discovery . |
| 18 | After years spent under the thumb of finance ministries , an increasing number have been given independence from politicians . |
| 19 | AFTER a familiar Eighties-style de-tox saga , Hiatt returned after years spent as the nearly-man with this scary , hilarious and durable collection . |
| 20 | Later Essex was attested and executed after evidence relating to the play Richard II was used at his trial . |
| 21 | The force has come in for criticism in the past two months after figures released on the constabulary 's ‘ crime-free day ’ in April showed Cheshire had suffered the highest rise in crime in the country . |
| 22 | Papert left the centre last autumn after control passed from the Minister of Research to the Ministry of Communications . |
| 23 | But plans to build the hospice on a site in Upton , Wirral , were blocked after people living near the proposed development claimed the centre would cause too much disturbance and a colony of protected bats would be driven away . |
| 24 | But millions of battered Britons still face the grim prospect of dearer home loans , more house repossessions , longer dole queues and firm after firm going to the wall . |
| 25 | Report after report issued under the aegis of British governments and parliaments of all flavours , as well as weighty learned institutions , have stressed that the balanced education of the future would put more emphasis on the numerate skills . |
| 26 | A pathologist was called shortly after detectives arrived at the warehouse in Ashton-under-Lyne , Greater Manchester 15 miles from Kathryn 's home in Bolton . |
| 27 | The Chancellor had the Prime Minister 's support , according to government sources , in intervening to the tune of $2bn to $3bn to shore up the pound after pressure intensified following the news two weeks ago of a £2bn current account deficit in August — the third worst on record . |
| 28 | People came year after year to stay in the two local hotels , the Lake and the Melvin , and to enjoy the fishing and the scenery . |
| 29 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 30 | Their school was nine miles from Mbaga and there was no time after school finished in the evening for the teacher and his wife to come and return home before dark . |