Example sentences of "after [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the things she 'd been thinking , his touch would probably make her burst into flames . |
| 2 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 3 | I said oh I 'm not gon na give you my telephone number after the things I 've been hearing about you ! |
| 4 | Some years earlier , John Wood tries ‘ however quaint the thought may appear … to feel as the cottager himself ; and for that end to visit him ; to enquire after the conveniences he wanted , and into the inconveniences he laboured under ’ . |
| 5 | In spite of these precautions I had to throw away many more balls , after the embryos they contained died , than Boulenger has ever handled ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 6 | After the furriers we all trooped off to the same dentist who X-rayed our teeth which was unusual in Britain then . |
| 7 | After the wounds he 'd seen in his time , how could one little splinter have such an effect ? |
| 8 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 9 | After the holidays she would be going up to Guides . |
| 10 | As soon as the shops opened after the holidays he was going to go out and buy himself a tie ! |
| 11 | After the prayers they went up in turn and kissed Moran and then Rose who returned their kisses warmly , and they slipped away to their rooms . |
| 12 | Michael and Denny also look after the gardens they laid out in front of the old house and the walled garden beside the clockhouse . |
| 13 | ‘ We all think maintenance is as important as landscaping , and enjoy looking after the gardens we have made , ’ she adds . |
| 14 | But after the boys they seemed tiresome : too demanding ; wanting love as well as sex ; too many ideas about how it should be done , and which position they liked best , and whether they came or not . |
| 15 | did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux . |
| 16 | Family notes listing Charles Titford 's children from William Charles onwards ; the notes themselves were written many years after the events they outline — in 1860 or thereabouts . |
| 17 | The historical sources tend to be accepted unless there is evidence to the contrary , by which process much of what can be read about Anglo-Saxon England is based on uncorroborated historical evidence written down hundreds of years after the events they describe . |
| 18 | Today , no reputable historian or biblical scholar would deny that the earliest of the Gospels was composed at least a generation after the events it describes . |
| 19 | The second of the two brothers also died soon after the events I have described , and it is probable that Gunhilda then returned to Wilton , for she was later remembered there with honour . |
| 20 | ‘ After the photographs I showed you ? |
| 21 | After the visions she 'd become a shepherdess of souls , leading them to Our Lady and to repentance . |
| 22 | After the meadows they had left , this was a strange , forbidding land . |
| 23 | But the party 's only contact with its members is the workplace , and after the elections they will be their only source of power . |
| 24 | After the elections I want to go back to the Institute of Forecasting . |
| 25 | After the attacks they were all told they had won their driving licences . |
| 26 | In the event Mazzin was after the notebooks we 'd stuffed down the front of our pyjamas . |
| 27 | They said they needed to live on site to look after the calves they rear . |
| 28 | After the words he had written to her , it was churlish of her to avoid him , but she dreaded any interview because of what she must say . |
| 29 | To throw in the towel would mean the end of misery , a shower , clean sheets , good food and reunion with my family after the months I had spent in training camp . |
| 30 | He had great respect for Palmerston , but ‘ after the speeches he had heard him deliver on this subject , he would be extremely sorry to obey his edicts on matters of taste ’ . |