Example sentences of "[adj] after [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Football Association revealed a velvet hand in an iron glove last night when they fined Wimbledon and West Ham United a mere £20,000 each after finding the clubs guilty of bringing the game into disrepute following a 17-man fracas during the Littlewoods Cup tie at Upton Park on November 22 . |
| 2 | The research is concerned with the speech of those who become deaf after acquiring language — the postlingual deaf . |
| 3 | I was feeling very upset after having my handbag stolen in a large hotel in Liverpool . |
| 4 | Then gradually raise the temperature from the normal 78–80°s ; F to about 85°s ; F. This temperature should be gradually reduced back to normal after spawning . |
| 5 | Five patients classified as abnormal before healing were classified normal after healing . |
| 6 | They only realised he was autistic after reading a newspaper article on the symptoms . |
| 7 | COMMERCIAL Union , one of the big five insurance groups , stuck to its slogan , ‘ We do n't make a drama out of a crisis ’ , yesterday and promised business as usual after losing its headquarters in the explosion . |
| 8 | The resistance was broken when a tiring Ratnayeke was superbly caught by the wicketkeeper Ian Healy , one-handed down the leg side , for 75 after flicking once too often at Greg Campbell . |
| 9 | At six o'clock , Clare again caught the bus to Pimlico , took Josh back to her basement , cooked his supper , cooked her supper ( increasingly , the same nursery food sufficed for both ) , put Josh to bed , had a drink , looked over any paperwork required by her solicitor , crawled into bed with a book , fell asleep after reading a page , and woke two hours later , unable to get back to sleep . |
| 10 | Lucker falls asleep after commenting that he does n't want to see how mini-cab drivers supplement their incomes . |
| 11 | That much was proved four years ago with Australia taking the Ashes 4–0 after losing the opening one-dayer at Old Trafford by 95 runs . |
| 12 | Ricky , exhausted but elated after haggling all night with Alejandro , had bought eight horses . |
| 13 | The words remind us of Hagar 's cry , when she was first driven into the desert and rescued by God : ‘ Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him ? ’ |
| 14 | FIREFIGHTER Gary Madill is lucky to be alive after crashing through a roof and smashing 25 feet to the ground . |
| 15 | A TRAMP was almost burned alive after falling asleep in a rubbish skip . |
| 16 | Notts County will disagree with that after picking the ball out of the net 5 times . |
| 17 | ‘ You ask that after hearing the details of his will ? |
| 18 | That after enduring obvious trauma I 'd leave you to go home alone ? |
| 19 | Creditors due to be paid within a year were up from £261m to £337m , while the gross interest payable was £158m against £130m — and that after capitalising £39.6m of interest . |
| 20 | And two people did n't , I thought , drift into talking like that after knowing each other for such a short while unless there was immediate trust and liking . |
| 21 | GLENAVON may have snatched the sponsor 's £1,000 , but Cliftonville were n't too worried about that after clinching a Gold Cup quarter-final spot . |
| 22 | Had they done that after finding the car in the Broad or before ? |
| 23 | Very refreshing after listening to two terms of this death-of-the-author stuff . ’ |
| 24 | Pre-race favourite Mick Francis , of Forres , who was runner up in the AAA 24 hour race in October , had to retired after covering 37 5 miles in five hours , leaving Paul Bream at the front . |
| 25 | ‘ My method was to write down these observations as soon as possible after hearing or observing them . |
| 26 | The beans are ground as soon as possible after roasting and either packaged for use in percolators and cafetières or freeze dried to make instant coffee of distinction . |
| 27 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 28 | Reports published in Beirut newspapers on Aug. 28 and quoting a senior source in the Shia Amal movement claimed that Arad was being held by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iran , having been captured by Amal in Lebanon in 1986 after bailing out of his aircraft , and then sold by Amal to the Revolutionary Guard for $500,000 . |
| 29 | Mrs Aquino knows the power of a campaign corpse , having herself been catapulted into the presidency in 1986 after touring the country with her husband 's body . |
| 30 | Their 14 riders include two previous winners , Norman Dello Joio ( 1983 ) , and Leslie Lenehan , who scored in 1986 after throwing away a winning chance 12 months earlier . |