Example sentences of "and after " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's all impersonation — in the absence of a self , one impersonates selves , and after a while impersonates best the self that best gets one through . |
| 2 | That theirs would be the last , the true one , and after that there would be no need for more ? |
| 3 | Only the story , and after that another story , and another and another . |
| 4 | Left : The Queen Victoria , Southwark Park Road , London of 1891 : before ( left ) and after ( right ) alterations . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're hardly making a secret of it , and after the exhibition they seem to have made , if Thomas is right , he could n't deny it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And after the fruit and nuts ? ’ |
| 7 | A couple of papers were duly bought and after that we parted company . |
| 8 | And after all , what price can you put on the immense satisfaction of taking dew-fresh vegetables to the kitchen within minutes of harvesting them ? |
| 9 | With strong winds , the tendency to swing into the wind is far more pronounced , and after landing the swing can not always be controlled by full rudder . |
| 10 | In this case the spin itself was quite normal , and after a few turns the pilot initiated the recovery by applying the full opposite rudder and then moving the stick forwards . |
| 11 | I was relatively successful and after three or four months moved into the Criminal Investigation Department , as a detective constable , pursuing local villains for the thefts , shopbreakings , burglaries , and petty frauds which were our bread and butter . |
| 12 | And after that evening when Dionne said ‘ it ’ was over , they had some undoing to go through , so near the edge of agony and ecstasy . |
| 13 | And after a while it was answered . |
| 14 | Most people will welcome advice and guidance before and after retirement . |
| 15 | Almost half of the serviceable BR-owned wagon fleet in 1989 comprised ‘ merry-go-round ’ coal hoppers , with the remainder consisting largely of steel carriers , some vans and opens for general merchandise traffic , and — rather surprisingly and after much argument with the industry — the fleet of china clay carriers built to replace the venerable ‘ clay hoods ’ in 1988 . |
| 16 | The great head of yeast created during fermentation is cropped off and after a week the remaining yeast is overcome by the alcohol it has produced and sinks to the bottom of the fermenter . |
| 17 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 18 | He sent for his carriage and jumped in , and after telling his coachman to drive fast he ordered him to stop . |
| 19 | And after that we have ‘ isms ’ and ‘ eses ’ : the pseudoElizabethanism — i.e. , bad Keats ; the romantics , Swinburnese , Browningese , neo-celticism . |
| 20 | This was privately admitted by senior officers who took over the running of the fund two years ago , and after an inquiry by the Charity Commission more than £3,000 was repaid from regimental funds . |
| 21 | Forty people are to appear in court in Blackpool today after Birmingham City supporters went on the rampage before and after their team 's Third Division match with Blackpool , wrecking a pub , smashing dozens of windows and bombarding police with bottles and glasses . |
| 22 | ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said . |
| 23 | He came to England as a Rhodes Scholar in 1958 , and after a year of teaching at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore he returned to Oxford for three years in the early 1960s as research fellow and junior dean at St John 's College . |
| 24 | ‘ I told the BMA at our meeting that I was not changing my ground , and after my explanation of the position they accepted my assurance . ’ |
| 25 | Pre-tax profits showed a more modest 2.5 per cent increase to £6.3m in the absence of last time 's £409,000 of property profits , and after a slightly higher tax charge earnings per share were almost unchanged at 6.22p . |
| 26 | But the party 's only contact with its members is the workplace , and after the elections they will be their only source of power . |
| 27 | On financial grounds alone the event was a resounding success , and after two thrilling encounters in the last two years the public appetite here is established beyond doubt . |
| 28 | The future of the fixture depends on the commitment of the Australians , however , and after two consecutive defeats , the enthusiasm for the World Club Challenge Down Under is more difficult to gauge . |
| 29 | Both as critics and film-makers their creed was so consistent as to encourage producers to contact any of their colleagues , and after the international success of such films as A Bout de Souffle , Hiroshima Mon Amour and Les Quatre Cents Coups , Doniol-Valcroze was able to make his feature debut in 1960 with L'Eau a la Bouche . |
| 30 | The siege commemorated in my nursery rhyme took place in 1761 : an English fleet cut off supplies to the citadel , and after 38 days the garrison surrendered . |