Example sentences of "after a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry James Barber — John to many of his intimates — died on 3 March 1991 , after a prolonged courageous battle with Parkinson 's disease , at the end of 21 years of active , enjoyable retirement . |
| 2 | He was carried off after a fifty fifty tackle with Stuart McCall . |
| 3 | Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital . |
| 4 | After a long preliminary chat with the man from the LER , Chapman decided it was time to press home the point . |
| 5 | Mansell stormed out of Formula One calling his Canon-Williams-Renault team ‘ gutless ’ called Mansell 's record-breaking year finished in frustration and disappointment after a controversial 19th-lap collision with arch-rival Ayrton Senna in the Australian Grand Prix . |
| 6 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
| 7 | Two still lifes by the seventeenth-century Antwerp artist Jacob Van Hulsdonck , found in the attic of a hospital at Melun , near Paris , were sold for FFr2.5 million on 20 December by auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat after a year-long legal battle with museum authorities who had the works classed monuments historiques to prevent them leaving France . |
| 8 | Much also depends on McCague , who , after a modest first season with Kent and an unremarkable winter with Western Australia , has shed 1½ stones in an effort to sharpen up his pace . |
| 9 | These additions were taken over the London and North Western Railway in 1871 after a convoluted legal battle with the Llanelly company . |
| 10 | WILLIE WOOD 's quest for the world indoor singles crown , which began back in 1982 , reached another dead end yesterday when the 1989 runner-up went out after a titanic five-set battle with England 's Mel Biggs . |
| 11 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |