Example sentences of "after [v-ing] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been so angry , after seeing the first picture of him with Dara , that she 'd wanted to get rid of anything that had reminded her of their time together . |
| 2 | After completing the first circle of fabric tufts repeat with a second row about 1 cm away towards the centre . |
| 3 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 4 | On touching down , after completing the first trans-Atlantic flight , the field turned out to be a bog , and the Vimy went in nose first . |
| 5 | In the fourth frame of their third-round match , Wattana was on course for a maximum but missed the 12th black with the rest after potting the first 12 reds and 11 blacks . |
| 6 | Ballesteros dropped out after bogeying the first sudden-death hole and Mize and Norman continued . |
| 7 | TOP-of-the-world mountaineer Rebecca Stephens was last night recovering in a snow-swept tent , exhausted but safe , after becoming the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 8 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 9 | After becoming the first Miss World , Alice appeared in two British silent films . |
| 10 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 11 | After keeping the first appointment she failed to attend two further treatment sessions , telephoning the therapist after the second to say she felt better . |
| 12 | After absorbing the first batch of strange-sounding names this is a book which is difficult to put down . |
| 13 | For example , after picking the first letter of a word they were seeking , users had to scroll through all the words in the database beginning with that letter to find what they were after . |
| 14 | Sometimes a young civil servant would be appointed to a subordinate revenue position immediately after passing the first law examination . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Leicester City fans have claimed Middlesbrough star Jamie Pollock encouraged a pitch invasion after scoring the first goal of his career at Filbert Street . |
| 16 | After describing the first three , involving speech , reading and writing , the fourth aim was described as being : ‘ to teach pupils about language , so that they achieve a working knowledge of its structure and of the variety of ways in which meaning is made , so that they have a vocabulary for discussing it , so that they can use it with greater awareness , and because it is interesting . ’ |
| 17 | Given the long times required to charge the larger rods , you can see that after getting a first qualitative result with the smallest rods within a few weeks , a proper quantitative analysis to test the variation with rod diameter and current , and so establish the nature of the effect would take a long time . |
| 18 | From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 . |
| 19 | Their rhythm was temporarily upset when Boone and Prenn changed sides after losing the first three games and Boone served from 8–8 in the fourth game to 5–0 in the fifth . |
| 20 | Second seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain claimed a place in the semi-finals when Natalia Zvereva of Belarus retired through illness after losing the first three games in eight minutes . |
| 21 | After giving the first five breaths into the child 's mouth , or if the child is small , mouth and nose , go on to C for circulation . |
| 22 | As we sat in the ATV canteen after recording the first eight episodes of The Power Game , he said : ‘ Think of all the fame stored up in those rolls of tape . |
| 23 | " Inability to predict what will happen after taking the first drink " is how we define alcoholism . |
| 24 | Despite the instruction often given by teachers to emphasise personal involvement towards the end of an essay , you should avoid the sort of over-personalised ending found in this essay : After reading the first paragraph , I did n't expect such an exciting story , but gradually I got more and more involved in the narrative and finally overwhelmed by this splendid spectacle , which I could vividly visualise . |
| 25 | Glasgow 's Joe Kelly , the British bantamweight champion , will fight Dane Johnny Bredahl for the European title after making the first defence of his crown against Drew Docherty of Croy on April 27 . |
| 26 | Bates , on the other hand , relaxed after claiming the first set 6–1 to lose the second 6–0 and found difficulty in mentally recharging as the 25 year old Swede took his opportunity to achieve a career best performance to reach the final . |
| 27 | That was 12 years ago , and after winning the first race that I entered between Sudbury and Bures in a non-racing canoe , I had caught the bug . ’ |
| 28 | Brothers Peter and Dave Grundy from Willaston should rename their boat ‘ Mr Cool ’ after winning the first day and taking a major prize on the second day at Wexford Harbour . |
| 29 | In his famous ‘ Minuet in G ’ Beethoven introduces a third sentence ( after repeating the first two ) which seems to belong to a different world , yet is perfectly apt : On the other hand , often a ‘ contrasting section ’ is made from existing material , creating a feeling of newness and freshness despite the apparent repetition . |
| 30 | One , after watching the first two films , was hunched at the end of a row , asleep and snoring . |