Example sentences of "a [noun] after it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he needed a cup of coffee and a sit-down after it was all over . |
| 2 | There are two pightles in this parish , both referring to elongated pieces of land , relics of the time when such shapes were left at the edge of a field after it had been divided up for strip-cultivation . |
| 3 | The bird was found in a field after it had flown into power cables . |
| 4 | A woman who left her pet greyhound in agony rather than take it to a vet after it broke its leg in a road accident has been banned from keeping dogs for seven years . |
| 5 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 6 | The price for tax purposes will now include any accessories added to a car after it is made available to an employee , unless these were made available on or before 31 July 1993 and excluding those worth less than £100 . |
| 7 | And of course it 'll be four and a half after it 's paid tax , you know if you 've got any tax credits from your nationalized shares , you 'll see those come through , and y you 've got the net return . |
| 8 | This finding conflicts with those of Bransford and Johnson ( 1972 ) and Dooling and Mullett ( 1973 ) who found that providing information about the theme or context of a passage after it had been presented did not improve performance , and so concluded that such information only affected the organisation carried out when the passage was memorised . |
| 9 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 10 | The argument rests on the assumption that the number of volatile-rich bodies that would be captured by a planet after it has accreted is roughly in proportion to the mass of the planet . |
| 11 | He sent a lad after it to try to catch it and with disgust watched me limp towards him rubbing a bruised thigh . |
| 12 | The four nurses were in a Ford Fiesta which was crushed under a lorry after it jacknifed . |
| 13 | The poll tax , then , will continue to hurt Labour for a decade after it has vanished . |
| 14 | An attempt has been made to change the state of a DC which is an illegal transition ( e.g. trying to update a dc after it has been submitted ) . |
| 15 | In a case brought by the RSPCA , it 's alleged that a horse was repeatedly beaten with a whip after it became stuck on a high gate . |
| 16 | And it will , if you , at the beginning of the sentence , however , it 's got a comma after it , before you go on to the rest of the sentence . |
| 17 | Two independent vets explained how difficult it is to determine the age of a dog after it is a year old . |
| 18 | ROCK star Elton John 's prized £400,000 Jaguar sports car has been smashed up just a month after it was delivered . |
| 19 | A secondary school is making ten teachers redundant , just a month after it opted out of local authority control . |
| 20 | A LUCKY corgi 's remarkable good fortune continues this week just a month after it was saved by a kindly Darlington couple . |
| 21 | The eldest was made to use a toothbrush after it had been put in the toilet . |
| 22 | A local farmer helped clear a road after it was blocked by a blown down tree . |
| 23 | It is undoubtedly true that Hansard and particularly records of Committee debates are not widely held by libraries outside London and that the lack of satisfactory indexing of Committee stages makes it difficult to trace the passage of a clause after it is redrafted or renumbered . |
| 24 | However , the laws may well be useful for transforming a program after it has been developed , or for making a program more amenable to some proof technique . |
| 25 | To compound the problems for the keeper standing back to Walsh is the fact that the ball swings and dips a lot after it pitches . |
| 26 | PAUL WARHURST is set for a dramatic return to first-team football tomorrow — less than a fortnight after it almost killed him . |
| 27 | In about a fortnight after it . |
| 28 | More than a year after it was first proposed Sir Jeremy is still unsure of his team . |
| 29 | Clarity Software Inc , the Mountain View , California-based company that when born promised to be the Unix version of Lotus Development Corp , is only limping along , a year after it first started shipping product . |
| 30 | [ The Finer Report was not debated in parliament until over a year after it was published , and few of its recommendations on housing , law and benefits were implemented . |