Example sentences of "been [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
4 | Two youths have been arrested after a motorcyclist was seriously injured when he was hit by a stolen car . |
5 | Two men have been arrested after a stolen car was chased at up to one ( 140 ) hundred and forty miles an hour . |
6 | A man has been arrested after a fourteen-year-old girl was found dead at a house in Hull . |
7 | A man has been charged after a policeman was stabbed in the eye with a wooden stick . |
8 | A BRIDE-TO-BE says she could have been stranded after a wedding car company disappeared . |
9 | A murder hunt has been launched after a man was shot dead in Scappa Street in Glasgow this morning . |
10 | AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a 37-year-old man was found dead in Darlington police cells . |