Example sentences of "and after a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally impressive at the Morrison Centre were Ken Bousfield , Ken MacMaster , John Lynch and skip Alan Moore who conceded only eight singles while collecting a string of twos and threes at the start and after a strong finish to register 23 shots in all . |
| 2 | The secretary was then called in , and after a serious address from the chairman , he was informed of the resolution of the general meeting , and that he was dismissed from the service of the College . |
| 3 | He comes , and after a heated discussion he commits himself to closing down the factory by 1992 . |
| 4 | It is only after a careful analysis of the situation and after a general assessment |
| 5 | And after a sparkling three days of racing , the Gold Cup itself provided a dramatic climax to the week . |
| 6 | They would operate under a single EC air licence and after a transitional period lasting until April 1 , 1997 , would be free to run domestic services in other EC states . |
| 7 | These patients are invited to attend the coronary heart risk clinic already in existence at the surgery and after a simple blood test , an exact cholesterol reading is obtained . |
| 8 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 9 | The city objected , and after a long controversy one was duly built . |
| 10 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 11 | On February 14 , she went through her transplant and after a long and painful convalescence , came home to Newent . |
| 12 | And after a long day 's walking , what better way to end it than with a glass of cider in one of St Ives ' treasures — The Three Ferrets . |
| 13 | She spotted us at the same time and after a long look , took her offspring and ambled away along the side of the mountain . |
| 14 | One day he had asked his parents if the Wrath eagles were the greatest of the golden eagles , and after a long pause his mother said , ‘ No eagle is greater than another , all of us are the same wherever we come from and whatever kind we are . |
| 15 | At 7 o'clock the office bearers , a number of the brethren and their lady friends sat down to a sumptuous repast in a granary tastefully decorated with evergreen and flags and after a long toast list the tables were removed for dancing . |
| 16 | We had made an early start that morning and after a long stiff climb up a bare hillside entered a forest of wild olives and massive juniper trees resembling cedars , many of them festooned with lichen . |
| 17 | He stood watching beside the flower-beds ; and after a long minute of uninterrupted work , Orrie straightened his long , athlete 's back again , and turned towards his audience the massive , stony beauty of his face , flushed with exertion . |
| 18 | Under mounting local and international pressure , and after a long campaign , the Japanese Government finally passed a new Mental Health Act in 1987 . |
| 19 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 20 | Finally , from whatever defence line was established and after a long period of mobilization , Nato 's forces ( presumably mostly Anglo-American ) would launch the great counter-offensive . |
| 21 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 22 | It can be hard work being a prima dogga , and after a long book-signing session there 's nothing Dido likes more than going fishing in the River Kennet . |
| 23 | For the first time in British history , and after a long struggle , Conscription had become law ; but in Dublin the ‘ Easter Rising ’ had set the spark to Ireland , and in Mesopotamia General Townshend had surrendered to the Turks at Kut . |
| 24 | A third round of peace talks had finally begun on Sept. 4 , and after a two-day break were resumed on Sept. 18 in the Venezuelan capital Caracas [ see pp. 38283 ; 38387 for previous peace rounds ] . |
| 25 | I have to say the results were incredibly heartening , and after a minimal amount of extra tweaking with the Quad-FX 's master controls the Boogie was powering all the effects individually , with no extra noise and no unwanted distortion at all . |
| 26 | Charles did n't respond and after a frozen pause , she collapsed into a chair and burst out crying . |
| 27 | He contracted severe dysentery and diphtheria and after a partial recovery returned to Basle in October . |
| 28 | And after a five-hour operation , brave Wendy was ‘ going along just fine ’ yesterday . |
| 29 | A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years . |
| 30 | The Board took the view that it was not in the national interest that such complete information about the whole nation should be in private hands and after a prolonged and bitterly fought legal battle it won — ensuring the perpetual hostility of Readers Digest the world over to any suggestion of data protection thereafter . |