Example sentences of "and [vb pp] after [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a poor house Ellen and not clean but it is cheap and furnished after a fashion and best of all lies next to the Casa Guidi which raised my spirits . |
| 2 | He still felt naked and drained after the speech , yet now was the time to be weaving more individuals firmly into thy spreading fabric . |
| 3 | To Iron Josh , stiff and bruised after the discomfort of his journey in the cart , even a kitchen chair had looked inviting . |
| 4 | The single , which was originally issued in 1981 and deleted after a run of 2,000 , served as a blueprint for the band 's ‘ Uncertain Smile ’ , recorded after they had signed to Epic . |
| 5 | In fact so much bullion was melted down and dispersed after the heist that this Christmas many women could be given jewellery made from the haul . |
| 6 | Like the little half-eaten ostrich so expertly reconstructed by Gould back in England , much of what Darwin had seen on the voyage had to be reassessed and re-evaluated after the event . |
| 7 | The exceptional strength and durability of Roman concrete was due to the substance pozzolana , a volcanic ash , found in quantity in the volcanic areas near Rome and Naples and named after the village of Pozzuoli where the best quality supplies were available . |
| 8 | Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock . |
| 9 | The main features of the 1990 budget , originally introduced on Sept. 19 , 1989 , and reintroduced substantially unaltered and adopted after the formation of the new centre-left government in November [ for which see p. 37050 ] , were the following : ( i ) a general cut in income taxes by 10 percentage points , including a reduction in the top rate from 72 to 60 per cent ; and ( ii ) a major programme for cleaning up the environment . |
| 10 | Again not unknown to the market , having been previously estimated at £500,000–700,000 by Sotheby 's then offered to the Louvre , the first of the Rubens , ‘ Portrait of Madame de Vicq ’ ( lot 56 ) , was nonetheless an outstanding work which narrowly failed to sell at £950,000 ( est. £1–1.5 million ) , and sold after the sale . |
| 11 | A YOUNG mother told a court today that she felt dirty and humiliated after a prison strip search . |
| 12 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 13 | He often comes down to the evening meal drained and exhausted after a day of writing his name at the bottom of letters like these . |
| 14 | Some — like that of Ryno the medic , exhausted and saddened after a struggle to save the life of a fellow constable — show how very young most men are when they are caught up in armed conflicts . |
| 15 | Polar deserts are characteristically littered with rock rubble , frost-shattered from bedrock on the spot ( lithosols ) or redistributed , ground and compacted into pavements by glacial action , and re-exposed after the retreat of the ice sheets ( regosols ) . |
| 16 | Two Commandos had taken their boots off yesterday evening and found after a couple of hours standing to they were unable to get them on again , both feet had swollen badly . |
| 17 | A MAN has been arrested and charged after an incident on the A74 Carlisle-Glasgow road when a woman driver — Yvonne Jackson , 38 , of Comiston Drive , Edinburgh — was taken to Dumfries Infirmary after being found unconscious near her car . |
| 18 | Now Bimbo , the pet of Vivian Fullerton and her husband , Ron , is restored to health and able to play and run after a ball again . |
| 19 | When they do they start barking and run after the hare then the huntsmen and whippers in followed the hounds to make sure that they do not cross a field they 're not supposed to , the field ( people ) follow the master/masters and this is what hare hunting is . |
| 20 | Then I turn and run after the car . |
| 21 | She could see only through a watery mist and realized after a moment 's panic that she still had her reading glasses on . |
| 22 | Charlie unloaded his magazine , grounded his rifle and chased after the sergeant . |
| 23 | Equipment must be services and tested after every hire , to ensure that it is safe to operate , and the test results recorded . |
| 24 | The whole of Solland and Wissenland were plundered and burned after the defeat of another army led by Count Eldred of Solland in what came to be known in the Empire as the Battle of Solland 's Crown . |
| 25 | There were also unconfirmed reports that West Germany 's KWU was studying a resumption of work on the two reactors ordered by the Shah 's government in 1976 and suspended after the revolution . |