Example sentences of "after [noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just after Manning had come the agnostic Tyndall , talking about the identity of radiant heat and light ; and just before Stanley , the militant anti-christian W. K. Clifford had held forth on the education of the people , and especially on the importance of technical drawing . |
| 2 | After Dan had drunk the hot sweet coffee that kept her awake at nights , they moved off , sitting in the small car for a while to look at the map . |
| 3 | Margaret Gowing in her official history of the British post-war atomic programme said : ‘ Polonium was a little-known element needed for a vital component of the ( atomic ) bomb … after Harwell had made the first polonium , Windscale assumed production responsibility … |
| 4 | Mr Stack is vice president Europe for Air Express International and he was speaking just after AEI had won the British International Freight Association 's 1993 Air Division Gold Award . |
| 5 | And in the 15th minute , after Paatelainen had replaced the injured Lee Richardson , Alex McLeish headed a Robert Connor corner narrowly over . |
| 6 | And in the 15th minute , after Paatelainen had replaced the injured Lee Richardson , Alex McLeish headed a Robert Connor corner narrowly over . |
| 7 | In 1835 , for example , just five years after Roberts had sketched the recumbent city of Jerusalem , we find the French writer Alphonse de Lamartine returning from a visit there to recommend to his readers in Voyage to the Orient that since Palestine did not really constitute a country , it presented remarkable opportunities for imperial or colonial projects . |
| 8 | On the other hand , Spurs ' coaching double act of Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore opted for words of wisdom rather than wrath , after Liverpool had dominated the first half . |
| 9 | ‘ Mrs Kettering , for instance … ’ she asked after Fosdyke had called the pale and sullen-looking girl wearing glasses and a blue overall from behind the zinc-covered bar to bring vino bianco to the Signora , plus ancora malt whisky con acqua . |
| 10 | When my husband 's mother , Lakey , died , an extraordinary scene of pillage went on in her little Blackpool bungalow after Jack had uttered the fateful sentence to visiting friends and relatives ‘ Take whatever you want . ’ |
| 11 | Written after Morrissey had read the chilling Beyond Belief , ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ was a deeply sensitive insight into the Moors Murders , a completely taboo subject in the streets of Manchester . |
| 12 | After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’ |
| 13 | We may be sure that the panache of the French royal chancellor inspired Thomas Becket to make the office equally great in the court of Henry 11 , just as it was the quarrel with Becket which no doubt determined Henry 11 to make the office ineffective after Becket had surrendered the Great Seal on his elevation to Canterbury . |
| 14 | Driven out in March , they returned in massive numbers in June , this time from the north as well as the east and after Nicholas had obliged the Austrian Emperor to beg for help in person . |
| 15 | Then , in 1210 , after Otto had revived the old imperial policies in Italy and had begun to oppress the Church , Innocent turned once more to Philip Augustus . |