Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 Zuckerman Unbound ( 1981 ) reaches its climax at one of Roth 's frequent funerals — in this case , that of Zuckerman 's father — after which Henry charges Nathan with killing their parent by writing ‘ that book ’ , the liberated Carnovsky , and with believing like the bastard he is that fiction does n't have consequences .
2 But first , for me everything was interrupted by six years of army service after which like so many others I had to start again .
3 Again the élitism in the department is largely symbolic , for although detectives talk continuously of their special knowledge of the world of ‘ prigs ’ , and despise the uniform branch as ‘ wollies ’ , often it is the uniform ‘ polis ’ who responds to a call and effects the ‘ capture ’ , after which the detective moves in to ‘ squeeze him dry ’ .
4 In my view , accuracy can only be assured over very short periods of time , after which the refereeing panel must receive a proper rest .
5 Here this very affluent neighbourhood spreads out southwards and westwards from the Mont Royale , after which the city is named .
6 The doctor , a family friend , had called to see his father , after which Leonard was invited to sit on the good man 's lap .
7 The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location .
8 I decided to make one last attempt after which I would start looking for a place from where I could obtain a map of the city .
9 Because of the need to refuel the two power cars , the practical operating range of an HST set is about 1,100 miles after which the unit must visit the depot to replenish its tanks .
10 These pipes stretching thinly in a bridge across the service road injected a mix of chemicals into the walls of the furnace itself ; did I know that fuel was only used in the start-up process , after which the chemicals themselves provided the fire ?
11 The rest will do a nine-hour day — after which , I imagine , they will be seeing potatoes in their sleep and grabbing at phantom clods of earth for half the night .
12 Then come some ear-splitting explosions ( do n't sit near the entrance ) after which most on stage are dead .
13 The banks agree not to sell bonds below the issue price until the arranger of the issue is satisfied that the bulk of the deal has been sold , after which , members of the group are free to sell at whatever prices they wish .
14 Seventy have been given refugee status and 240 have been allowed to stay for a year after which their cases will be reviewed .
15 The Portuguese authorities had promised to hear Ferrari 's appeal against the fine next Wednesday , after which the FIA , the international automobile federation , was due to reach a decision on Ferrari 's appeal over Mansell 's ban from the Spanish Grand Prix which was staged on 1 October .
16 Bands and their managers tend to have periods of relative quiet , maybe for six months , after which they are in a fever of activity .
17 after which horror one can only return to the banalities of modern city life which protect the individual from the terror of the deep insight .
18 The three major cinematic events in my life have functioned as harbingers to major changes in my own life , after which things were never quite the same .
19 There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get .
20 The third National Government followed upon the resignation of the Liberal ministers and of the free trader , Snowden , in September 1932 , after which it became little more than a Conservative government , with the adhesion of a few ex-Labour and Liberal politicians , all owing their seats to an electoral pact with the Conservatives .
21 Although an interim report was submitted in May 1942 , after which Shelmerdine was replaced as chairman by Lord Finlay , the committee 's main recommendations became the plank of British civil aviation policy for the next three years .
22 They stay in the reception classes for a period of up to three years , after which they are usually dropped into the lowest streams of the schools to which the classes are attached …
23 The search lasted until 1130 hours , after Which the platoon took up positions along the route and established vehicle checkpoints on roads throughout the area .
24 Since Lewis was to go on to become a faithful and devoted Christian , he writes rather as if the ‘ conversion ’ were a fait accompli , after which nothing could be the same .
25 But we are very close now to the critical turning-point after which the political scene in Prague could be as rapidly transformed as among its neighbours .
26 But we are very close now to the critical turning-point after which the political scene in Prague could be as rapidly transformed as among its neighbours .
27 Mr Adamec held talks with the small Socialist Party yesterday , after which the Socialist leader , Mr Bohuslav Kucera , announced that the Prime Minister was quitting because he wanted someone younger to handle the ‘ compromise ’ .
28 After which they would inveigh against them as decadent while ordering more of the same for their next well-attended private screenings .
29 Before that the chronological sequence of songs starts with a charming Gounod-like salon piece , and follows the composer 's development , after which the collection is crowned by the best-loved Verlaine settings .
30 They stayed at Allerthorpe for three hundred years , after which , in 1590 , Sir Thomas Lascelles conveyed the manor to William Robinson .
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