Example sentences of "after [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 2 | His arrival in Egypt coincided with the great crisis of June and early July 1942 , when morale among the Middle East forces was at its lowest after the long retreat from Gazala , and the fall of Tobruk . |
| 3 | They arrived at the Pride Club tired and dusty after the long drive from Copenhagen , to find no refreshments or hospitality laid on . |
| 4 | After the long conversation with my brown self out in the street and being confronted now by a blond self , the haze lifted and all the images became clear . |
| 5 | All of them were ready for action after the long period of training , but when they arrived they found that a gale had brewed up . |
| 6 | Added to these was another important element , for the period of the festival was a time of licence : this was a necessary outlet in the community for the tensions repressed after the long period of hard physical toil . |
| 7 | I was very tired after the long flight from London to Sydney and on the television show someone attacked what I had just been saying . |
| 8 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 9 | The document has reappeared after a long sleep in California , and is estimated at £150,000 . |
| 10 | Peter and Paul , Yeadon died in Leeds Infirmary after a long illness on October 24th . |
| 11 | THE Bradford Catholic Players are saddened by the death after a long illness of past President and Life Vice President Clare Illingworth . |
| 12 | CORONATION Street actor Teddy Turner , who played Chalky White in the popular soap , has died after a long illness aged 75 . |
| 13 | The new building was opened with great fanfare in January 1895 , and the grateful deaf members appointed William Agnew a director , a position he retained until his death after a long illness in 1914 . |
| 14 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |
| 15 | After a long while of keeping the pendant hidden and unlooked at in his sock drawer , Thomas had to bring himself to hunt for someone to buy it back , for he could n't afford both presents . |
| 16 | We 're all called to understand ourselves , and to do this it 's necessary that we should understand one another , and this is only possible after a long while of living together . |
| 17 | After a long while of silence he unlocked his arms from her . |
| 18 | After a long while in which she heard nothing but the rasp of charcoal on canvas and the faint distant booming of the sea , he said , ‘ Talk if you want to . |
| 19 | This is noticeable after a long soak in the bath ; the pads of your fingertips will take on a wrinkled appearance . |
| 20 | Although we were trying a man for being ‘ drunk in charge ’ two people in the jury room ( after a long exposition from the recorder ) were quite determined to find him not guilty of ‘ dangerous driving ’ — an offence with which he had never been charged . |
| 21 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |
| 22 | After a long battle with the local council , she was finally taken to court and fined £800 . |
| 23 | Jonathan Horne secured it for his client after a long battle at £31,900 ( estimate £5,000-£8,000 ) . |
| 24 | Brave Melanie Dean , of Fransham Road , Pallister Park , died in January after a long battle against cystic fibrosis . |
| 25 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 26 | Luis was helping us clean the Plaster Room after a long session of plastering . |
| 27 | After a long session of testing , Alex became increasingly crotchety and unco-operative and , in one marvellous sequence captured on video-tape , after a tiring day at the office the parrot says : ‘ I 'm going to go away ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ But after a long deliberation of all the circumstances , the Board agreed to sanction the contest on the conditions laid down . ’ |
| 29 | After a long deliberation by the jury , Mr Dodd was cleared of wilfully avoiding tax on the considerable sums of money he had hidden , but had to pay large amounts of tax considered owing , as well as legal costs . |
| 30 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |