Sentence examples for peck after from inspiring English sources

The company – which has previously represented regimes such as Belarus and Sri Lanka – previously worked for Asil Nadir, the former head of Polly Peck, after his misguided decision to return to Britain from his northern Cypriot bolthole in order to fight fraud charges which resulted in a 10-year jail term.

The photo shoot comes a day after Bell posted and then deleted a series of tweets in which he seemingly cut ties with Peck after not being invited to his TV stepbrother's wedding.

The first peck after the end of the delay produced a reward.

The bird that only started to peck after a worm had been taped to the key was assigned a value of 100 trials (as it did not peck during the first 99 trials); the bird that had to be tutored was excluded from this data set as it did not follow the same training procedure as the other birds.

This procedure made nine birds initiate pecking on the third day, but one bird only started pecking after a mealworm had been taped to the pecking key (after completion of the morning session).

Contrary to our predictions, the results from the autoshaping task suggest that, if anything, hand-reared birds apparently learnt faster than wild-caught birds: hand-reared birds tended to start pecking after fewer trials, and pecked faster within individual trials.

"She's not so showy," Ms. Peck said after the 19-year old performed a duet that featured a daring leap into her partner's arms.

Humam Husari, 32, was refused an entry visa to attend the prestigious Rory Peck awards after he was shortlisted for his films.

In March, for instance, a melee erupted outside Wilbur Peck Court after the police tried to disperse a crowd of teenagers who were drinking.

"You wonder," Peck said after a meeting of the standardbred industry at the Meadowlands last Thursday, "is it going to be here next year?" These are extraordinary times for harness racing in New Jersey.

Despite this, he was forced further down Sunderland's pecking order after they signed Mart Poom on loan from Derby County and after considering handing in a transfer request he joined Third Division club Darlington on a one-month loan on 22 November 2002.