Example sentences of "after [art] long [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | After the long day finishes , most pickers labour an extra hour to earn a rest on Saturday afternoon . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After the long breakfast the three girls went out to visit Moran in the fields . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , Maud ! ’ laughed Mildred , full of joy at the sight of her best friend after the long summer holiday . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There were a lot of people in town all desperate , I think , to get out of the house after the long Christmas break . ’ |
| 22 | Most of the others were suffering from a degree of nervous exhaustion after the long takeover struggle . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ’ 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 . |
| 26 | I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
| 28 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 29 | It was confiscated again in 1302 , but eventually , after a long struggle , he succeeded in maintaining his palatine rights . |
| 30 | It represents , however , a retreat from the basic principle that the price of limited liability should be full financial disclosure — a principle which after a long struggle , was adopted in the 1967 Act . |