Example sentences of "[vb base] [that] after [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And every residential social worker knows that I am not exaggerating when I say that after a death has occurred — often alone or with one of us holding the dying resident 's hand — the family will descend like vultures , demanding a complete inventory of all their belongings , ransacking their personal clothes for valuables , and insisting on receiving all that is left of the petty cash .
2 They say that after the age of thirty , or marriage , whichever comes first , one can write no more poetry .
3 I think that , more , not sort of say a general question like that , but say that after the collection has happened that you want returns for the number of people in Oxford that have benefited from the number of groups in Oxford that have benefited .
4 The country 's nuclear lobby has argued that alternative energy sources are either not available or too expensive and Semenyuk told a parliamentary debate on the government 's economic reform programme that : " Experts say that after the introduction of safety measures the plant is among the safest , and not only in Ukraine . "
5 ‘ And they say that after the Conablaiche would come the Lad of the Skins , ’ said the soldier , and a sudden silence fell , because everyone knew about the Lad of the Skins and the Knife of Light , and how , if you fell into the Lad 's clutches , he would take your soul and you would be thrown for ever into the Prison of Hostages .
6 The mnemonics ensure that after a minimum of experience with the structure it is no longer necessary to refer to Figure 11.3 when transmitting or receiving .
7 It will , of course , seldom happen that after the buyer has had some benefit , the contract is avoided by section 7 because usually by the time the goods are delivered to the buyer risk will have passed to him ; section 7 applies only where the goods perish before the risk passes to the buyer .
8 Whether the lust for gold had mastered us , whether a hatred of the thieves suffused our outlook , whether their attempts to thwart it had not toughened our resolve I can not say : but I know that after the bomb had been thrown into our midst , we would , one and all , have died in agony rather than let the treasure fall into the enemy 's hands .
9 Please also note that after an employee has not contacted them they are not entitled to pay .
10 This is normally a gradual process ; few people notice that after the age of twenty-three they no longer hear the high-pitched squeak of a bat .
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