Example sentences of "after it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erskine House Group Plc shares nose-dived 14 pence to land at 27 pence after it said that its final dividend for 1992 will , at most , be nominal , saying that January and February had been dire in the US . |
| 2 | After it hatched and had begun to feed , its body cells divided no more . |
| 3 | For a short while after it fires , the nerve goes through a refractory period when it will not respond to a nervous stimulus . |
| 4 | Kingfisher 's bid comes little more than three years after it fought off a £1.8billion takeover attempt by Dixons . |
| 5 | ANGRY customers ran riot in a High Street store after it ran out of mince pies . |
| 6 | The empty 400ft Demetrius , being towed from Dunkirk in northern France to Greece for scrap , was wrecked after it ran aground at Prawle Point in south Devon . |
| 7 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 8 | On April 9 the government closed the offices of Africa Concord magazine after it ran the headline : " Has Babangida given up ? " . |
| 9 | All 71 people on board an Indonesian airliner died after it plunged into a mountain in eastern Indonesia on July 25 . |
| 10 | A secondary school is making ten teachers redundant , just a month after it opted out of local authority control . |
| 11 | This photograph shows the contingent after it passed the Cenotaph , with Jerry Jones DFC leading , John Higham , President of the Sydney Branch and Don McComish bearing the Standard . |
| 12 | I spent a few years on The Scotsman and then to Thomson House to join The Guardian soon after it dropped the ‘ Manchester ’ from its title and started printing in London . |
| 13 | THE BBC was accused yesterday of ‘ anti-Irish bias ’ after it dropped a performance by Irish dancers from a television tribute to the Queen last Friday . |
| 14 | THE investor protection system set up under the Financial Services Act is creaking under the strain , less than three years after it swung into operation . |
| 15 | ‘ Shortly after it returned , Pete was rolling around on the carpet and found a titbit , ’ Andrew explained . |
| 16 | The government-backed Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research is to investigate the issue after it carried out a review of 50 recent reports on the longevity of CDs . |
| 17 | POLICE shot dead a vicious Rottweiler dog after it attacked them in north Belfast . |
| 18 | Trafalgar paid less than £3m for it back in 1976 , five years after it purchased Cunard . |
| 19 | But it it you you got lost off after it goes over twenty . |
| 20 | Steve and Joanne took in Captain Pugwash — a 17-stone Great Dane-Mastiff cross — after it bit a pensioner 's leg off . |
| 21 | A few days later a Soviet commentary from Kabul indicated the limits of such ‘ neutrality ‘ in asserting that the PDPA ’ will remain the chief mobilising and guiding force in the [ Afghan ] government of national unity , even after it becomes a coalition ’ . |
| 22 | The agreement followed a spate of oil spills since the March 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster [ see p. 36541 ] which included three large oil spills in US waters in June 1989 : ( i ) on June 23 , 650,000 gallons of fuel oil were spilt into Narragansett Bay off Rhode Island by a Liberian-registered tanker , World Prodigy , after it struck a reef ; ( ii ) on June 24 a Uruguayan tanker , Presidente Rivera , spilled 800,000 gallons of industrial heating oil after hitting a rock in the Delaware River , Delaware ; and ( iii ) also on June 24 a tow-barge spilled 250,000 gallons of light crude oil in Galveston Bay , Texas , after a collision with a Panamanian cargo ship . |
| 23 | You pay nothing now and will have 15 days to study your policy after it arrives . |
| 24 | However , we aim to send off airmail abroad on the working day after it is posted , and to deliver incoming airmail on the working day after it arrives in this country . |
| 25 | Then I make sure I put enough money on the barclay card the day after it arrives |
| 26 | Unfortunately for Labour the Korean War by 1951 was having an adverse effect on the British economy and precipitated another balance of payments of crisis just after it seemed that Britain could dispense with Marshall Aid . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The firm has been deluged by applications for tickets after it offered two flights to Europe with every Hoover product bought worth more than £100 . |
| 29 | However , the Oakes Report 's recommendations concerning the financial management of advanced further education were rejected by the Conservative government soon after it assumed office in May 1979 . |
| 30 | The men claim they were not offered new sales posts with Swithland Motors , of Mountsorrel , Leics , after it took over the Birmingham-based Colmore Group in March last year . |