Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] after the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maidstone explained that he had first come to Italy after the First World War . |
| 2 | Five hundred people were employed by the company in the mid-nineteenth century , but after various changes in ownership , the Coalport business was moved to Staffordshire after the First World War , though the name was retained and the firm continued to prosper . |
| 3 | She and her husband moved to Essex after the first of the three children was born , and have stayed in the same house since , Mary busying herself with a multitude of activities locally , and now caring for her husband since his stroke . |
| 4 | The only expatriate survivor from the old days was Sophie , a Pole whose family had lost all their property when the Communists came to power after the Second World War . |
| 5 | He came to Stamford after the First World War and lived in the town during the 1920s at no. 20 St. George 's Square . |
| 6 | The other half of it lies in mobilising party and public support sufficiently strongly to leave Mrs Thatcher with no choice but to readmit him to the Cabinet if the Tories do return to office after the next election . |
| 7 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 8 | Tonight he 'll recite extracts from the work of American writers who went to Paris after the first world war . |
| 9 | He 'll read extracts from the works of American writers who travelled to Paris after the first world war . |