Example sentences of "[pron] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | During local soaring , select good-looking fields , and then go and have a look at them after the flight to see what they are really like . |
| 2 | I 've seen them after all ( she 's talking still faster ) … for Harriet they 're just future factory fodder . |
| 3 | But , particularly since Tiananmen , it has been echoing the argument that people would be less concerned to leave Hong Kong before 1997 if they could be absolutely confident that other countries would accept them after that date . |
| 4 | The survey shows that more than half the companies which have smoking restrictions introduced them after pressure from the workforce , with a quarter having the issue raised through health and safety committees . |
| 5 | The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution . |
| 6 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 7 | I get bored with watching them after a bit , so I go in the shop and have a look at their books . |
| 8 | ‘ I am just so relieved we are on the verge of getting a much more sensible system of payment to them after all this time . ’ |
| 9 | Charlton v Millwall There is a relegation ring about this derby , with Charlton 19th and fast-falling Millwall only two points above them after no win in their last six games . |
| 10 | For two days running , thousands of commuters had to leave trains to walk along the tracks , some of them after being stranded between stations for six hours . |
| 11 | The Chinese have given just enough support to the allies to bring themselves back into favour with the western governments , particularly America 's , that had spurned them after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 . |
| 12 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 13 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 14 | But if anything the cloud hanging over them after the Riddifords left made Dennis , Millie and their expanded family — two more sons Michael and Peter were born after their arrival in Melbourne — even more determined to make it . |
| 15 | Fifteen calls , most of them after midnight , would be more typical . |
| 16 | The first volume of her poems was published by subscription ( the proposals for which were drawn up by Mr. Garrick ) under the patronage of several persons of rank and taste , in 1748 ; as was also the second volume , of which the late Mr. Hawkins Browne was the editor in 175 … , both of them after her death , which happened prematurely by the meazles , at the age of 24 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll make them doubles , we need them after that weather out there . ’ |
| 18 | Had all four defendants committed the brutal crimes , or had just two of the brother perpetrated these heinous events , later to be joined by William who had done his best to abet them after the event ? |
| 19 | In contrast to the US , the European Community has agreed to stabilise its emissions of carbon dioxide at 1990 levels by 2000 , and to reduce them after that . |
| 20 | That period of his life also freed him for his experiments in other kinds of theatre which , although he never reverted to them after taking on his Stuttgart responsibilities , enriched his subsequent work . |
| 21 | The story of illuminated trams began with the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 , when the Tramways Department equipped five trams with lights and patriotic slogans to mark the occasion , and operated them after nightfall on a packed Promenade . |
| 22 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 23 | Obviously , no stranger was allowed to approach them after a performance , and certainly no gifts were to be accepted . |
| 24 | We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age . |
| 25 | Nor were they altogether at ease in the neighbourhood , for though there was no reason to suppose that the verderers would return in search of them after their escape — after all why should they suppose the children would return to the very spot where they had been captured ? — the shock of the moment when Michael 's voice had spoken to them out of the darkness still hung about the place . |
| 26 | At eight o'clock in the evening of 17 August 1759 the single frigate which Boscawen had left to watch the Straits arrived in Gibraltar harbour with the alarming news that the enemy was about to escape them after all . |
| 27 | Were they not going to destroy them after all ? |
| 28 | Credit managers had had their prison threat weapon taken away from them after reports of exploitation and deceptive trading practices by certain ‘ loan sharks ’ became too numerous for the government to ignore . |
| 29 | The pass-codes are a boon , but a game this tricky needs them after EVERY level , not every ten . |
| 30 | I 've seen them after road accidents when people have been hurled out of their cars . |