Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was booed and jeered by 16,000 spectators for not walking promptly after giving a desperately hard-to-judge return catch . |
| 2 | I liked just lying there after the antenatal classes , holding my lump and feeling the baby move gently . |
| 3 | A very disappointed Cray Research Inc has been told by the US Department of Energy that the $72m joint venture on developing software for the forthcoming T3D massively parallel processor , agreed by the outgoing Bush administration late last year ( CI No 2,041 ) , is not going ahead after all . |
| 4 | You 're not going straight after the reception are you dad ? |
| 5 | That Neil was not sleeping there after all , or merely that he shut the flaps at night against the midges or the weather ? |
| 6 | Speed runs to the touchline/crowd and runs along … nearly always spitting just after scoring . |
| 7 | It was a measure of McLaren 's problems that they were still working long after that . |
| 8 | Pat found herself wondering whether to return to Purley , but decided after all to establish herself in the South West and spread the Medau message by taking up teaching again after her rather brief retirement . |
| 9 | Prices are now falling slightly after stringent budget-deficit cuts . |
| 10 | I found a woman talking unhappily into a telephone and tried to cheer her up and went on trying even after her boyfriend or husband appeared from somewhere . |
| 11 | A director was precluded from diverting to himself a maturing business opportunity which his company was actively pursuing even after his resignation where the resignation was prompted or influenced by a desire to acquire that opportunity for himself . |