Example sentences of "[pron] after [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To console them after their bad experience , the mothers at St Bernard 's decided to give them a surprise party to mark Alice 's 90th birthday . |
| 4 | Police think the killers targeted them after their son Paddy , 23 , was jailed for 12 years recently for possessing a 1,200lb bomb . |
| 5 | They could n't have done it too promptly or else she and the Archdeacon would have met them after their ill-fated call on the Dersinghams . |
| 6 | Belfast City Council cut short Safeall 's contract with them after its staff allegedly caught guards in a number compromising situations . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She heard his low voice as he spoke to them , greeted them after his long absence . |
| 9 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 10 | If you have children under 18 you may be able to appoint someone to care for them after your death ( known as a guardian ) . |
| 11 | And do you keep up with them after your work ? |
| 12 | A testator instituted heirs his mother and his wife and provided : ‘ I ask you , dearest wife , to leave nothing after your death to your brothers . |
| 13 | I guess I ought to be more honest about this because my daughter wrote me after her mother 's funeral and said she 'd guessed what had happened anyway . |
| 14 | You may be interested in an event that happened to me after our Remembrance Service at East Kirkby early this July . |
| 15 | Beside these books in my library is a copy of another book , ‘ Along My Line ’ , by a BBC mogul , Gilbert Harding , presented to me after our frequent meetings both in Canada and in London . |
| 16 | ‘ No one comes to me after our matches to talk about what they could have done better , ’ said Durie . |
| 17 | The only thing that surprised me after our painful , taciturn lunch was the astonishing enthusiasm and goodwill he displayed on my departure . |
| 18 | If Bruce Allen signs another act , hopefully he would come to me after my work with Bryan Adams and Lover Boy . |
| 19 | The first questions which faced me after my own Worst Day were simple . |
| 20 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 21 | And I do n't think that you own me after my day is over , Dr Cochrane . |
| 22 | ‘ Be kind to me after my speech ? ’ she pleaded . |
| 23 | But listen , you must come and see me after your journey . |
| 24 | You may well be ashamed to see me after your noise and nonsense . |
| 25 | He ( Churchill ) saw me after his afternoon nap and was purring like a tiger . |
| 26 | Then I said that most of the money would come to me after his death , anyway — I mean , that 's what he told me when the will was read — and it would be too late then . |
| 27 | Erm now you 've had a chance first of all I after our chat er par particularly on the phone and I make notes of people who er I think come well across on the phone because you know how important that is to us . |
| 28 | Spinner killed himself after his wife 's death . |
| 29 | Over 17 hands high , he had a girth which measured seventy-nine inches ( Secretariat 's girth was thought to be remarkably large at seventy-six inches ) and housed a heart which after his death tipped the scales at fourteen and a half pounds : the average for a Thoroughbred is around ten pounds . |
| 30 | He produced thousands of drawings and paintings , which after his death his wife , who lives in the Cotswolds , published in a book . |