Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] after the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maidstone explained that he had first come to Italy after the First World War . |
| 2 | Now in the Black Sea region the dynasty , which had come to power after the Persian Wars , ruled a principality centred on Pantikapaion until 438 , when they were succeeded by a new one founded by one Spartokos ( Diod. xi.31 ) . |
| 3 | Spiritual leader of Tibetan people : The 14th Dalai Lama , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , fled to India after the failed uprising of 1959 . |
| 4 | Officers and officials returning to Britain after the American War of Independence took home with them a taste for madeira wine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He came to Stamford after the First World War and lived in the town during the 1920s at no. 20 St. George 's Square . |
| 9 | The SNC was to have convened in Cambodia in late November , but the meeting was shifted to Thailand after the violent attack on Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan on his attempted return from exile to Phnom Penh [ see pp. 38573-74 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He switched to league after the 1979 Wallaby tour to Argentina . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I suspect that the mulberry sauce — we are not told for what manner of meat it was intended — may have originated somewhere in Asia Minor and was perhaps brought to Italy after the Venetian conquest of Constantinople in 1204 A.D. It could equally have come via Persia or Afghanistan where , as in Turkey , the berries of the white or silk mulberry are dried to provide a supply for the winter . |
| 14 | The three athletes , who had been accused of tampering with a urine test in South Africa in January , were restored to competition after the three-man commission , who held a 14-hour hearing stretching over two days in Darmstadt , declared there had been ‘ holes in the chain of evidence ’ during and after testing by South African anti-doping control officials . |
| 15 | Last Friday Geraldine and Alan went to bed after the Golden Girls . |
| 16 | Tonight he 'll recite extracts from the work of American writers who went to Paris after the first world war . |
| 17 | Philip Jenkins has shown that in South Wales at the turn of the century Whig and Tory gentry were equal in terms of wealth and numbers , and further that a number of once firm Tory gentlemen converted to Whiggery after the Glorious Revolution . |
| 18 | Many of the pharmaceuticals sent to Armenia after the 1988 earthquake were useless , and , in some cases , dangerous . |
| 19 | He 'll read extracts from the works of American writers who travelled to Paris after the first world war . |