Example sentences of "been [verb] after a " in BNC.

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1 The ANC demanded " total and verifiable " evidence that hit squad activities had been stopped after a prominent black lawyer was killed on Feb. 15 by a booby-trapped tape-recorder posted to his Soweto home .
2 Two weeks earlier , on March 15 , Mehrdad Kowkabi , an Iranian student held in the UK for 15 months , had been deported after a court dropped charges of arson against him , and Iranian officials had been quoted as saying that the government might respond to this " positive step " by releasing Cooper .
3 But just two weeks before his death , the couple had been celebrating after a last-ditch nationwide appeal found a donor liver to save the life of their baby .
4 Since 1952 , when the New Hampshire election was first seriously contested , no President had been re-elected after a challenger in his party had scored 35 per cent or more in the state 's primary .
5 Two youths have been arrested after a motorcyclist was seriously injured when he was hit by a stolen car .
6 Two men have been arrested after a stolen car was chased at up to one ( 140 ) hundred and forty miles an hour .
7 A man has been arrested after a fourteen-year-old girl was found dead at a house in Hull .
8 A man has been charged after a policeman was stabbed in the eye with a wooden stick .
9 A BRIDE-TO-BE says she could have been stranded after a wedding car company disappeared .
10 A murder hunt has been launched after a man was shot dead in Scappa Street in Glasgow this morning .
11 AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a 37-year-old man was found dead in Darlington police cells .
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