Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] after a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had done so after a period of co-operation and consultation with East Germany which looks in retrospect like a laying of the groundwork for what was to come in both Germanys . |
| 2 | Earlier , scrum half Davy Emerson had touched down after a bout of pressure on the Queen 's line , and full-back Trevor McKeown kicked a simple penalty . |
| 3 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 4 | Before lapsing into a coma Suzanne , who had left home after a row with her stepfather , told rescuers she had been held captive for a week . |
| 5 | ‘ Bruges ? ’ he had surmised solemnly after a moment . |
| 6 | The sex had drifted away after a while , and Jay did n't mind ; not in that end-of-the-world Astrid way . |