Example sentences of "it after a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try it after a relaxing bath or shower when you can indulge in a little pampering with aromatic oils and lotions to make the whole experience more enjoyable . |
| 2 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 3 | Azhag fought the Troll , and eventually chased it back to its lair where he slew it after a bloody struggle . |
| 4 | The place is full of the aroma of Spot-Knee , the ram lamb who recently copped it after a blissful organic life . |
| 5 | LIFESPAN notifies users when an intermediate development version of a module is no longer in use and if the user does not indicate a requirement to maintain this module version , LIFESPAN will automatically delete it after a configurable latency period . |
| 6 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 7 | The Durham lads renamed it after a Zimbabwean mountain range ‘ the curse of the Bvumbras . ’ |
| 8 | Sweeping into it after a lumpy sail from Lundy , our first thought is an ‘ If only … ’ |
| 9 | In Ipswich , the Amberstone Bookshop was having a better time of it after a steady year , supported by some strong local titles . |
| 10 | Making this ready might involve cleaning it after a previous bather and then running fresh water . |