Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] after the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports .
2 They should also be invited to meet others holding similar posts after the first six months to discuss common concerns .
3 The family 's difficulties arise from a libel case brought by Lord Aldington over allegations about his conduct in repatriating Russian Cossacks after the Second World War .
4 His later role as a kind of travelling salesman of international anti-semitism is only tangentially related to the scope of this study , although he was to be of considerable significance in his role as vice-president of the IFL and the legacy he bequeathed to Arnold Leese was to help him revive racial nationalism after the Second World War .
5 He gained public sympathy after the third Marquess of Salisbury , the prime minister , doubted that ‘ a British constituency would elect a black man ’ .
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