Example sentences of "after [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't hear Lachlan stop his father , as the old man returned after seeing the last visiting galley off the shore . |
| 2 | On touching down , after completing the first trans-Atlantic flight , the field turned out to be a bog , and the Vimy went in nose first . |
| 3 | In the fourth frame of their third-round match , Wattana was on course for a maximum but missed the 12th black with the rest after potting the first 12 reds and 11 blacks . |
| 4 | Ballesteros dropped out after bogeying the first sudden-death hole and Mize and Norman continued . |
| 5 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 6 | TOP-of-the-world mountaineer Rebecca Stephens was last night recovering in a snow-swept tent , exhausted but safe , after becoming the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 7 | After describing the first three , involving speech , reading and writing , the fourth aim was described as being : ‘ to teach pupils about language , so that they achieve a working knowledge of its structure and of the variety of ways in which meaning is made , so that they have a vocabulary for discussing it , so that they can use it with greater awareness , and because it is interesting . ’ |
| 8 | Their rhythm was temporarily upset when Boone and Prenn changed sides after losing the first three games and Boone served from 8–8 in the fourth game to 5–0 in the fifth . |
| 9 | Second seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain claimed a place in the semi-finals when Natalia Zvereva of Belarus retired through illness after losing the first three games in eight minutes . |
| 10 | It will certainly be a dramatic change of scenery after spending the last few weeks in the reserves . ’ |
| 11 | After giving the first five breaths into the child 's mouth , or if the child is small , mouth and nose , go on to C for circulation . |
| 12 | As we sat in the ATV canteen after recording the first eight episodes of The Power Game , he said : ‘ Think of all the fame stored up in those rolls of tape . |
| 13 | In his famous ‘ Minuet in G ’ Beethoven introduces a third sentence ( after repeating the first two ) which seems to belong to a different world , yet is perfectly apt : On the other hand , often a ‘ contrasting section ’ is made from existing material , creating a feeling of newness and freshness despite the apparent repetition . |
| 14 | One , after watching the first two films , was hunched at the end of a row , asleep and snoring . |
| 15 | After obliging the last autonomous ruler of the Ukrainian heartland to resign ( in 1764 ) and breaking up the Ukrainian Cossacks ( in 1775 ) , Catherine the Great had subjected Ukrainians to the poll tax and extended to their territory her reform of Russian provincial administration . |
| 16 | Teenage full back Phil Hardy looks almost certain to regain his left back spot after missing the last 11 games because of a foot operation , with utility man Wayne Phillips reverting to a more familiar midfield role . |
| 17 | But Michael Thomas could be back after missing the last two games with a twisted ankle . |
| 18 | Defender Kenny Goodrick could return to face his old club after missing the last three games because of injury , but striker Chris Pickford is doubtful . |
| 19 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |