Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 2 | From Verzy to Trépail , however , the vines face eastwards , after which they take more southerly aspects . |
| 3 | For control of reflux symptoms , the patients were allowed to take H 2 receptor antagonists or antacids until 10 days before the start of the study after which they received only antacids . |
| 4 | The young remain with their mother until a new baby is born , after which they wander further and further away until the parental bond breaks down completely . |
| 5 | In Chapter 6 , we saw how to introduce a sequence set on a beach , beginning with establishing shots after which we grew gradually closer to the characters and their reactions to each other . |
| 6 | On weekdays , a further peak occurred in the half hour before noon , but demand then dropped over the lunchtime period until 13.00 , when it started to climb once more , reaching a peak at 14.15–14.30 , after which it declined gradually until the end of the day . |
| 7 | The road bypasses the viaduct , preferring to cross under the railway at a more orthodox bridge a short distance further on , after which it climbs steadily in a barren landscape to the grassy tableland of Newby Head Moss at an elevation of almost 1400 feet . |
| 8 | ‘ According to the report he was at The Morvyl Arms until closing time , after which he walked home to his caravan at Mil ! er 's Bottom . ’ |
| 9 | He played soccer for Middlesbrough in the immediate post-war years and , in 1950 , moved to Portsmouth where he played professionally until 1958 , after which he drifted away from the club never to contact Portsmouth again ( W. J. B. Davis , Portsmouth FC Secretary , personal communication , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | The rage burned a week , after which she fell totally silent for three days ; a silence broken by a grief like nothing she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 11 | The urgency of nausea brings me to Siobhan 's house without difficulty and , once there , I crumble to my knees and vomit into the toilet , after which I fall headlong into bed and sleep for three or four |
| 12 | The news brought back by Colonel Moore after what they had all supposed was no more than the formal punctuation had almost panicked her . |
| 13 | How the hell can I tell her after what she 's just been through , Newman asked himself . |
| 14 | Nothing would be quite the same after what he had just heard . |
| 15 | After what he has now said about a referendum , he had better watch out . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ said Brian , ‘ not after what you put away last night . ’ |
| 17 | It 's not much after what you 've just been through , but I 'd hate to end up in a French jail and , as I forgot my licence , I 'm not insured to move this car . ’ |
| 18 | me a pound after what I 've just done for you out there |
| 19 | ‘ After what I saw here today , I do n't believe you 're afraid of anything . ’ |
| 20 | Anyway , after what I did ter that silly ole goat at the sawmills the coppers might fink I 'm a villain an' try ter get the ole boy ter say I was there . |
| 21 | Its technicalities interest the men above all else , and it is the activity upon which they spend most of their energy and about which they talk endlessly ( Maybury-Lewis 1971 : 33 ) . |
| 22 | Then when children turn to secondary sources it will not be in a passive way , but with the purpose of checking ideas about which they have already talked . |
| 23 | The story demonstrates the urgent need for similar studies to be undertaken in other parts of the world to determine the status of the many other dolphin species about which we know so little . |
| 24 | Zaire is one of those faraway countries about which we know very little — but last year its turbulent politics caused panic in the market for one of the world 's key raw materials . |
| 25 | Beyond them lies that very mysterious region , the centre of the Galaxy , about which we know very little at the moment . |
| 26 | For many of us , prayer in the Holy Spirit is something about which we know very little . |
| 27 | But it is Northumberland 's curious garden an Stanwick on the Yorkshire-Durham border , where he lived before moving to Alnwick in the 1750s , about which we hear more from Miller . |
| 28 | ‘ And the Deeds of Rogal Dorn thereafter compose an entire hagiography , which we will now start to consider in detail — commencing with our Primarch 's role in the expulsion of the renegade Iron Warriors from the Human Imperium into the forbidden zone known as the Eye of Chaos , a region about which we speak softly if at all … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The truth , about which we spoke so often in the past few years , has been reaffirmed once again — where there is a delay in dealing with overripe problems , excesses are inevitable , ’ Gorbachev said in the Tass transcript of his speech . |
| 30 | The incident mentioned by the hon. Lady is clearly deplorable , as are the deportations that occur from time to time and the closures of universities , about which we have also protested . |