Example sentences of "to [pron] after [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart . |
| 2 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 3 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 5 | One hurricane was much the same as another to me after the two weeks I 'd just had , and I slept right through it . |
| 6 | I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album . |
| 7 | She was n't at all surprised , though , when Stephen spoke to her after a long telephone conversation with Robert Leyton , later that evening . |
| 8 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 9 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
| 10 | Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business . |
| 11 | ‘ The Commission appointed to investigate the disaster came to us after an earlier attempt to prove the cause of the crash had failed , ’ explains senior project manager Steve Jackman . |