Example sentences of "after it [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 For a short while after it fires , the nerve goes through a refractory period when it will not respond to a nervous stimulus .
2 But it it you you got lost off after it goes over twenty .
3 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 ’ .
4 You pay nothing now and will have 15 days to study your policy after it arrives .
5 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 .
6 Then I make sure I put enough money on the barclay card the day after it arrives
7 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 .
8 The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size .
9 The community can judge the worth of prophecy after it happens .
10 When the pressure is on to respond to an event after it happens , the client will then judge your professional competence .
11 After it gets the ball rolling , FCSI is expected to wither away over the next two years , passing the torch completely to FC/Open .
12 The court also granted a stay of proceedings for three weeks after it delivers its written judgment , in a few days , for the defence to decide whether to take its appeal to the Privy Council , the highest court to which the case can go .
13 Data General Corp will be getting 88000-based desktop workstations OEM from Omron Corporation starting sometime this spring after it signs a contract .
14 But there is now a 60 per cent chance that a fish will be caught after it reaches 35 centimetres ( the legal limit to netting size ) .
15 The German government persuades Siemens to take over IBM Deutschland after it reports losses that exceed turnover .
16 How strategic is NT anyway after it moves NT stuff like memory management and multitasking into Windows 4.0 and DOS 7 ?
17 the power hereby granted will expire 15 months following the passing of this resolution or , if earlier , at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 1991 , except that the Company may make an offer or agreement before it expires which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after it expires and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of the offer or agreement notwithstanding its expiry .
18 We can all get a chuckle over that the fact that Microsoft is going to refuse to renew the cross-licence it has with IBM for Windows and NT after it expires next year .
19 Continue until just after it starts to take up the steep fellside again , where a small path branches off left .
20 General opinion in the markets now is that an unexpectedly high number of prime cattle could come through after it starts on 1 April .
21 And Unigram 's generally reliable sources reiterated their claims that USL did indeed talk to the Santa Cruz Operation about acquisition ( UX No 396 ) , and now add that USL ca n't possibly decide what to do about SCO until after it knows whether USL itself is going public , going for another investment round or going to get acquired .
22 We 're in favour of the part that would protect the work of art after it leaves the studio , but we 've fought against the resale royalties section that would provide a share of resale profits to go to the artists .
23 Now , thanks to the turbine and an automatic lighting system , the lights come on half an hour before a train arrives and go off half an hour after it leaves .
24 Well if the phone 's next to me you pick it up fairly quickly after it gives it 's first beep do n't you ?
25 It will use it as an embedded controller in office automation products such as X-terminals after it shrinks it and optimizes its speed .
26 Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out .
27 ‘ FLYING SCOTSMAN ’ , undoubtedly Britain 's most famous steam loco , wo n't return to mainline running until 1995 ‘ at the earliest ’ after it completes its three last British Rail assignments in October .
28 MCI Communications Corp says capital spending will peak at about $1,600m in 1993 versus $1,400m in 1992 , and return to about the 1992 level after it completes construction of its long-distance link between Chicago and Salt Lake City .
29 Somebody measures how the gas is distributed between the cylinders before the valve opens and after it closes , writes the results on two cards , and asks you to tell which card describes the earlier state and which the later .
30 Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’
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