Example sentences of "after [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the long sea journey , she was met in London by Mr Craven 's housekeeper , Mrs Medlock . |
| 2 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 3 | His arrival in Egypt coincided with the great crisis of June and early July 1942 , when morale among the Middle East forces was at its lowest after the long retreat from Gazala , and the fall of Tobruk . |
| 4 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
| 5 | Bombay : Prices fell on heavy speculative selling after the long weekend . |
| 6 | After the long drive they were understandably tired , yet for some reason Stirling failed to post sentries . |
| 7 | They arrived at the Pride Club tired and dusty after the long drive from Copenhagen , to find no refreshments or hospitality laid on . |
| 8 | He was tired after the long drive home , preceded by an even longer , freezing-cold canoe and helicopter journey . |
| 9 | Seeing the couple 's arrival and the manner in which Madeleine was clinging to Harry 's arm as they left the car , he persuaded his friend up to his bedroom on the grounds that he must want a wash and brush-up after the long journey . |
| 10 | She 's two exhausted after the long journey to go shopping.She just wants to go home . |
| 11 | In the heat of the afternoon , both armies lay quiet , somnolent after the long hours of nervous exertion and the effects of the warmth and the food . |
| 12 | But finally there was a victory , a quiet one in his own breast , and something like the elevation of disdain over stupidity and meanness , and rest after the long battle . |
| 13 | He saw the indiscreet movement of the CI5 man across the road , and guessed that the man 's attention had been distracted after the long night 's watch , and he had missed the car 's departure . |
| 14 | Fat sticky horse chestnut buds ; coal-black ash buds with green flower clusters in pairs on the branches ; reddish-brown oak buds splitting open to reveal tiny glossy yellow-green leaves : trees were coming to life again after the long winter |
| 15 | After the long day finishes , most pickers labour an extra hour to earn a rest on Saturday afternoon . |
| 16 | After the long conversation with my brown self out in the street and being confronted now by a blond self , the haze lifted and all the images became clear . |
| 17 | After the long breakfast the three girls went out to visit Moran in the fields . |
| 18 | Instead , to strengthen leg muscles after the long summer break , daily walks along the streets of Islington , dressed in ordinary clothes , were the practice , the distance being increased each day . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , Maud ! ’ laughed Mildred , full of joy at the sight of her best friend after the long summer holiday . |
| 20 | All of them were ready for action after the long period of training , but when they arrived they found that a gale had brewed up . |
| 21 | Added to these was another important element , for the period of the festival was a time of licence : this was a necessary outlet in the community for the tensions repressed after the long period of hard physical toil . |
| 22 | There were a lot of people in town all desperate , I think , to get out of the house after the long Christmas break . ’ |
| 23 | Even the rain was supposed to be radio-active after the long series of 1954–5 tests . |
| 24 | Most of the others were suffering from a degree of nervous exhaustion after the long takeover struggle . |
| 25 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 26 | But in that no-man's-land twilight after the long X-ray session and before receiving another summons to my surgeon , I noticed a grave deterioration in that fern . |
| 27 | I was very tired after the long flight from London to Sydney and on the television show someone attacked what I had just been saying . |
| 28 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 29 | Dawn was breaking over Labour 's headquarters in Walworth Road , south London , yesterday as Mr Kinnock stepped on to the balcony , his face ghostly white in the television arc lights and his lips drawn tightly after the longest night of his career , writes Jon Hibbs . |
| 30 | I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’ |