Example sentences of "after [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Green records when he has had a particularly good meal : after eating at the Swan in Grasmere , with Anne , he writes ‘ the dinner good and cheap , all cheerful … |
| 2 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 3 | Shortly after landing at the site , McGuinness met W/C Parsons , Embarkation Officer at Glasgow ; S/L Orr , Maintenance Command ; F/L Morgan , 50 Squadron , S/L Wall from the Air Ministry and S/L Hughes who was in charge of the RAF ground crews tasked with maintaining the Spitfires during their transfer . |
| 4 | She pounded on the masonry with her fist and then , after tearing at the fastenings round her right foot , with the heel of her boot . |
| 5 | After laughing at the idea of launching Forest Hills in Liverpool , Adidas let him have 500 pairs . |
| 6 | After training at the School of Military Engineering , Chatham , he served in the Boer war ( 1901–2 ) and then in Chatham ( 1904 ) , Bermuda ( 1904–7 ) , Harwich ( 1907–9 ) , and Ireland ( 1909–12 ) , before passing top into the Staff College at Camberley in 1912 . |
| 7 | A sentry let us in after looking at the Feldwebel s papers with a torch and we walked up a garden path towards a sort of suburban villa . |
| 8 | Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor . |
| 9 | ‘ However , after looking at the still pictures I realised that Gerrard and Obolensky were in excellent positions for the pass to the right . |
| 10 | I shall return to this after looking at the other two models ( see pp. 46 – 48 ) . |
| 11 | In nature , so to say , chicks soon learn — within the first three days after hatching at the latest — who their mother is , and follow her thereafter . |
| 12 | In Russia Catherine II , after conniving at the overthrow and murder of her husband in 1762 , was on continuously bad terms with her son and heir , Paul , who feared and hated her and whom in the last two decades of her reign she scarcely ever saw . |
| 13 | In most situations , therefore , it is sufficient to disinfect after cleaning at the end of each work cycle . |
| 14 | After speaking at the conference , Mr Parkinson told journalists : ‘ It ( BR privatisation ) has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 15 | The original plan did not envisage a commercial use , he told Reuter after speaking at the conference . |
| 16 | After speaking at the UN General Assembly on June 22 , he met President George Bush in Washington on June 25 . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister 's dramatic move was virtually a direct order to him to make contact and shortly afterwards it was announced Mr Delors would go to Number 10 at 12.45 pm after speaking at the London School of Economics less than a mile away . |
| 18 | Yusuf who , at the 50-akce level , served as muderris/mufti successively in Larende , Amid , Aleppo , Seyitgazi and again in Aleppo , in which last post he died in 1981/1573 ; of Molla Akmal al-Din ( Ekmeleddin ) , muderris/mufti between 972/1565 and his death in 983/1575 successively in Kefe , Rhodes and Cyprus , where he was the first muderris/mufti after the conquest ( 978–9/1570–1 ) with 60 akce a day ; and of Molla Yalaya al-Ajami who , after teaching at the haric level at the medrese of Sultan Orhan in Iznik , went on to the muderris/muftiliks of Seyitgazi , Aleppo and Damascus , dying in the last-named post in 986/1578 . |
| 19 | The American visitor wrote out the cheque after staying at the £16-a-night City of London hostel . |
| 20 | A townscape of nightmare yellows : sky , buildings , furniture , wallpaper , faces — the colour of age , heat , pestilence , bile and jaundice , bruisings and stainings , with a stronger connotation of dirt in Russian than in English ; the colour of the tickets of identification which prostitutes were required to carry ; the colour of Raskolnikov 's ‘ cubbyhole ’ of a room ; and the colour which greets him when he comes to after fainting at the police station and sees a man ‘ holding a yellow glass filled with yellow water ’ . |
| 21 | You may make a switch of this kind after starting at the Bar . |
| 22 | Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted . |
| 23 | Jacopo Bassano ‘ The miraculous draught of fishes ’ , to be shown at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth , Texas , from 23 January to 24 April , when the major Jacopo Bassano exhibition transfers to the States after closing at the Museo Civico of Bassano del Grappa on 6 December . |
| 24 | After closing at the Hammer on 12 April , ‘ Catherine ’ will go to the Dallas Historical Society , and to one other venue , yet to be determined . |
| 25 | After staring at the two chaps with ‘ you 'll do for a light snack ’ eyes , the lion started to wander towards them . |
| 26 | After glancing at the military map and checking with the compass , there was no mistaking Reggane . |
| 27 | A member of the political bureau of the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) , Mohammed Adabo Kabo , was dismissed on Dec. 23 after protesting at the killings , which had also prompted ( on Dec. 18 ) an expression of " severe condemnation " from the French Foreign Ministry . |
| 28 | At one point a stream has been blocked to provide a lake with a one- thousand foot path skirting it , and on the lake ( there is ) a boat for such visitors as [ sic ] prefer the exercise of rowing after drinking at the saline spring in the morning . ’ |
| 29 | After arriving at the quantity of paper needed ( allowing for wastage ) I would descend to the cellar , bring up the paper , and cut it to size on our huge hand-powered guillotine whilst the two others would be hand-setting the copy handed them by me on a clip , for their guidance . |
| 30 | Because she had to drive the RFFS vehicle , the crash crew person had to don the protective clothing after arriving at the scene . |