I. preposition
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
After much deliberation
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After much deliberation , first prize was awarded to Derek Murray.
an accessory before/after the fact (= someone who helps a criminal before or after the crime )
immediately after/following sth
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He retired immediately after the end of the war.
just before/after/over etc
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We moved here just after our son was born.
lived happily ever after (= used at the end of children’s stories to say that someone was happy for the rest of their life )
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So she married the prince, and they lived happily ever after .
right after
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It’s on right after the six o'clock news.
the day after tomorrow
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How about meeting for lunch the day after tomorrow?
well after
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It was well after ten o'clock when we arrived.
well looked after
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You could tell that the horse had been well looked after .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a man/woman etc after my own heart
after a fashion
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The group learns to ride and lasso after a fashion .
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Aunt Lou seldom approved of the people who lived above her, but it worked after a fashion .
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Broadman, who could read after a fashion , peered over the top of the volume.
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Grubbing for business on dud leads was, at least, after a fashion dealing.
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It has worked, after a fashion .
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Kissing continues, after a fashion , but tongues now completely verboten.
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So they became friends, after a fashion .
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The gates clanged shut again, Berwick succoured, after a fashion , with a day to go.
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You met him ... Well, after a fashion , you met him ten years ago or so.
after the fact
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Few people even heard about the concert until after the fact .
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But solving the problem is not so simple, especially after the fact .
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Even after the fact , their violent behaviour just did not make sense.
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Explanations after the facts are of course very useful but the hallmark of a successful research programme is predictions.
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For the field man who deals with real problems, paper work is incidental, after the fact .
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The jury also acquitted the rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, of being an accessory after the fact .
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Then they acquitted Broadus of being an accessory after the fact .
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To make such decisions after the fact can be costly-even fatal.
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Will I follow you down the street a hundred years after the fact ?
after the fashion of sb
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His early work is very much after the fashion of Faulkner and O'Connor.
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Once, he had considered its aged look as just the thing, after the fashion of the Boston Cracked Shoe look.
after/before/until dark
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Badgers usually only venture out after dark , so they can be difficult to spot.
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I have often come out here alone after dark to breathe it in.
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If McQuaid had a big order to fill he mightn't come till after dark .
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Not many people chose to take a ride on such a bumpy, gloomy road after dark in the month of January.
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Start in the morning and not go home until dark .
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That evening I was all right - Joanna would be afloat in the late afternoon, and I could get away before dark .
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We had been too nervous to arrive after dark .
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We worked from early morning until dark .
be after sb's blood
be patterned on/after sth
be wise after the event
can look after yourself
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But now she can look after herself.
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It is generally assumed that at postgraduate level and above users can look after themselves.
day after day
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The same exercises can get boring if you do them day after day.
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How, he asked himself, how could one put up with that, day after day.
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On the radio, the same things get hashed and rehashed, over and over, day after day.
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Otherwise, day after day, a restlessness had seized her again, to be afraid.
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She saw in her mind the woman who sat in the same seat day after day.
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Smashing down mogul fields all day long, day after day, sounds great to skiers in their 20s.
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The day before, I was on the battlefield with them, on the floor day after day....
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The jobs are nothing - just the same thing, day after day.
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The whole office, we just observed this stuff as it was happening, day after day.
ever after
look after yourself
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Concentrate on the truth, advised Eric Gill, and let beauty look after itself.
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No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks, but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves.
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Remember, at the same time as you are looking after yourself, you are protecting them.
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Respecting yourself means looking after yourself.
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That's all for now, look after yourselves, and make sure you don't overdo things, Gwen.
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The pup must now look after itself.
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We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff, for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
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You knew how to look after yourself, he said.
month after month
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I'm just doing the same old thing month after month.
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And then following in her footsteps, month after month, as if he stood a chance.
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But month after month Clarisa and I went on sleeping with our son between us.
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Day after day, month after month, I followed death.
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How must it be to work here day after day, month after month, knowing there was no end to it?
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I learned on the job, at sea, working seven days a week, month after month.
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Our salaries were not paid, month after month.
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The Azusa Street revival itself continued day after day, month after month for three years.
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These limits were then overshot by month after month of interest rates above 14%.
night after night
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He sat up night after night to finish the game.
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Everything took getting used to, she said, saying the same thing night after night, softly in the darkness.
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Girls of four don't wet their beds night after night.
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Neither of us, night after night, could get too much of that.
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She came night after night, looking for some one who would love her.
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She had slept in the chair in his room, night after night, holding his hand.
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Stoker watched Irving on stage night after night.
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The United States appeared to be careening out of control and television recorded every conflagration and confrontation without respite night after night.
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You can dream and dream but only what happens in this room night after night is important.
one (damn/damned) thing after another
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Just one damn thing after another.
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She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
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Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
one after another
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Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another .
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He's had one problem after another this year.
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As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another .
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Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another , the golden days were illumined with changing light.
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Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
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Just moments, one after another , instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
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Just one after another on the streets.
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On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
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The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another .
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This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another .
one after another/one after the other
shut/close the stable door after the horse has bolted
stay after (school)
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But Lucie stayed after all, to play Balaam, and Izzie to play her pipe beforehand.
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I stayed after hours doing murals on tailgates.
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I had a friend who worked for the oil people, and I decided to stay after a visit to this place.
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I have never once heard a staff member say that wouldn't stay after the school day for some activity or other.
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In May, when the time changes and the weather mellows, the team will stay after the games to picnic.
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Keegan is desperate to stay after savouring his first taste in management by keeping United in the Second Division.
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She went so far as to make special transportation arrangements for some students to stay after school to finish their assignments.
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Some stay after class and follow me devotedly around the campus.
the day/week etc after next
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From them I learned that the coronation was to be on the day after next , and not in three weeks.
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I think it might be the week after next .
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The case will be heard in London's High Court the week after next .
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We shall meet the day after next .
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We won't be able to cut the grass the week after next , as I'd hoped.
time after time/time and time again
week after week
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We keep practicing the same dance steps week in, week out.
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And this guy turns up, in Room 302, week after week after week.
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But even though week after week the jokes were the same, we always laughed.
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I understood how week after week he was all Clarisa needed.
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Nicholas Church were occupied, week after week, by faithful Communists.
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Not week after week, anyway.
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The list will not be long because you tend to purchase the same food products week after week. 9.
year after year/year in, year out
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After a few minutes, she fell asleep.
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After a while, we got tired of waiting and went home.
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After all the trouble I had, Reese didn't even say thank you.
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After dancing, going to the movies is my favorite weekend activity.
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After half an hour we got tired of waiting and went home.
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After ten days, their supplies of water were running low.
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After the dance, a few of us went out for a drink.
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After your letter, I didn't think I'd ever see you again.
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a painting after Rembrandt
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At first I was very nervous, but after a while I began to feel more confident.
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Do you believe in life after death?
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I'm not surprised he left her, after the way she treated him.
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I go swimming every day after work.
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My name is after yours on the list.
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The date should be written after the address.
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The movie starts at a quarter after seven.
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The war ended after another six months of fighting.
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There were several people after me who didn't manage to get into the game.
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What's on after the 6 o'clock news?
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Whose name is after yours on the list?
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dinner
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Well the after dinner speaker is none other than Dave Bassett of Sheffield United.
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It lay among the daily stack until after dinner .
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A packed Hall of graduates and undergraduates gave Baroness Park an affectionate standing ovation at the end of her after dinner speech.
school
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The steering group is exploring the needs for after school care and is looking at possible locations for schemes.
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She could wait to look for another job until after school started in the fall.
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So when they played after school , they improvised by kicking a tennis ball.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a man/woman etc after my own heart
after a fashion
▪
The group learns to ride and lasso after a fashion .
▪
Aunt Lou seldom approved of the people who lived above her, but it worked after a fashion .
▪
Broadman, who could read after a fashion , peered over the top of the volume.
▪
Grubbing for business on dud leads was, at least, after a fashion dealing.
▪
It has worked, after a fashion .
▪
Kissing continues, after a fashion , but tongues now completely verboten.
▪
So they became friends, after a fashion .
▪
The gates clanged shut again, Berwick succoured, after a fashion , with a day to go.
▪
You met him ... Well, after a fashion , you met him ten years ago or so.
after the fact
▪
Few people even heard about the concert until after the fact .
▪
But solving the problem is not so simple, especially after the fact .
▪
Even after the fact , their violent behaviour just did not make sense.
▪
Explanations after the facts are of course very useful but the hallmark of a successful research programme is predictions.
▪
For the field man who deals with real problems, paper work is incidental, after the fact .
▪
The jury also acquitted the rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, of being an accessory after the fact .
▪
Then they acquitted Broadus of being an accessory after the fact .
▪
To make such decisions after the fact can be costly-even fatal.
▪
Will I follow you down the street a hundred years after the fact ?
after the fashion of sb
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His early work is very much after the fashion of Faulkner and O'Connor.
▪
Once, he had considered its aged look as just the thing, after the fashion of the Boston Cracked Shoe look.
after/before/until dark
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Badgers usually only venture out after dark , so they can be difficult to spot.
▪
I have often come out here alone after dark to breathe it in.
▪
If McQuaid had a big order to fill he mightn't come till after dark .
▪
Not many people chose to take a ride on such a bumpy, gloomy road after dark in the month of January.
▪
Start in the morning and not go home until dark .
▪
That evening I was all right - Joanna would be afloat in the late afternoon, and I could get away before dark .
▪
We had been too nervous to arrive after dark .
▪
We worked from early morning until dark .
be after sb's blood
be patterned on/after sth
can look after yourself
▪
But now she can look after herself.
▪
It is generally assumed that at postgraduate level and above users can look after themselves.
day after day
▪
The same exercises can get boring if you do them day after day.
▪
How, he asked himself, how could one put up with that, day after day.
▪
On the radio, the same things get hashed and rehashed, over and over, day after day.
▪
Otherwise, day after day, a restlessness had seized her again, to be afraid.
▪
She saw in her mind the woman who sat in the same seat day after day.
▪
Smashing down mogul fields all day long, day after day, sounds great to skiers in their 20s.
▪
The day before, I was on the battlefield with them, on the floor day after day....
▪
The jobs are nothing - just the same thing, day after day.
▪
The whole office, we just observed this stuff as it was happening, day after day.
ever after
look after yourself
▪
Concentrate on the truth, advised Eric Gill, and let beauty look after itself.
▪
No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks, but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves.
▪
Remember, at the same time as you are looking after yourself, you are protecting them.
▪
Respecting yourself means looking after yourself.
▪
That's all for now, look after yourselves, and make sure you don't overdo things, Gwen.
▪
The pup must now look after itself.
▪
We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff, for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
▪
You knew how to look after yourself, he said.
month after month
▪
I'm just doing the same old thing month after month.
▪
And then following in her footsteps, month after month, as if he stood a chance.
▪
But month after month Clarisa and I went on sleeping with our son between us.
▪
Day after day, month after month, I followed death.
▪
How must it be to work here day after day, month after month, knowing there was no end to it?
▪
I learned on the job, at sea, working seven days a week, month after month.
▪
Our salaries were not paid, month after month.
▪
The Azusa Street revival itself continued day after day, month after month for three years.
▪
These limits were then overshot by month after month of interest rates above 14%.
night after night
▪
He sat up night after night to finish the game.
▪
Everything took getting used to, she said, saying the same thing night after night, softly in the darkness.
▪
Girls of four don't wet their beds night after night.
▪
Neither of us, night after night, could get too much of that.
▪
She came night after night, looking for some one who would love her.
▪
She had slept in the chair in his room, night after night, holding his hand.
▪
Stoker watched Irving on stage night after night.
▪
The United States appeared to be careening out of control and television recorded every conflagration and confrontation without respite night after night.
▪
You can dream and dream but only what happens in this room night after night is important.
one (damn/damned) thing after another
▪
Just one damn thing after another.
▪
She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
▪
Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
one after another
▪
Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another .
▪
He's had one problem after another this year.
▪
As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another .
▪
Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another , the golden days were illumined with changing light.
▪
Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
▪
Just moments, one after another , instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
▪
Just one after another on the streets.
▪
On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
▪
The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another .
▪
This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another .
one after another/one after the other
shut/close the stable door after the horse has bolted
stay after (school)
▪
But Lucie stayed after all, to play Balaam, and Izzie to play her pipe beforehand.
▪
I stayed after hours doing murals on tailgates.
▪
I had a friend who worked for the oil people, and I decided to stay after a visit to this place.
▪
I have never once heard a staff member say that wouldn't stay after the school day for some activity or other.
▪
In May, when the time changes and the weather mellows, the team will stay after the games to picnic.
▪
Keegan is desperate to stay after savouring his first taste in management by keeping United in the Second Division.
▪
She went so far as to make special transportation arrangements for some students to stay after school to finish their assignments.
▪
Some stay after class and follow me devotedly around the campus.
the day/week etc after next
▪
From them I learned that the coronation was to be on the day after next , and not in three weeks.
▪
I think it might be the week after next .
▪
The case will be heard in London's High Court the week after next .
▪
We shall meet the day after next .
▪
We won't be able to cut the grass the week after next , as I'd hoped.
time after time/time and time again
week after week
▪
We keep practicing the same dance steps week in, week out.
▪
And this guy turns up, in Room 302, week after week after week.
▪
But even though week after week the jokes were the same, we always laughed.
▪
I understood how week after week he was all Clarisa needed.
▪
Nicholas Church were occupied, week after week, by faithful Communists.
▪
Not week after week, anyway.
▪
The list will not be long because you tend to purchase the same food products week after week. 9.
year after year/year in, year out
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the after deck
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A packed Hall of graduates and undergraduates gave Baroness Park an affectionate standing ovation at the end of her after dinner speech.
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Abaft the after head is a large locker accessed either through a door in the head or from the cockpit.
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Our friendly wine bar is also there for your pre-show drink, your interval glass of wine or your after show socialising.
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Several men in the after shell-room lingered there too long... and were drowned.