Example sentences of "after be [vb pp] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being instructed on the circuit , racing lines , warning flags , etc , the condemned men were given a hearty meal . |
| 2 | After being hit on the head with a bottle , Waller lashed out at Terry Malone , 24 , with a chisel . |
| 3 | New Zealand saved the follow-on after Nancy Williams defied doctor 's orders and resumed batting after being hit on the head by a fielder 's return . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , later in the same year , some months after being hit on the head by a piece of falling masonry , Geoffrey of Vigeois died , and without his chronicle to guide us we are hopelessly ignorant of events in this part of the world . |
| 5 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 6 | Nicky Henderson 's gelding rallied after being headed on the flat by Rio Haina in that two-and-three-quarter-mile event , and judged on that game performance , should not be unduly troubled by today 's extra two furlongs . |
| 7 | George Heron , 23 , had to have four stitches after being slashed on the forehead by an inmate in Durham jail . |
| 8 | A post-mortem revealed it had bled to death after being slashed on the udder with a sharp instrument , severing a main artery . |
| 9 | Islands around the world have often hosted odd dwarf forms of mainland creatures : pony-sized elephants once lived on Malta ; and it was reported by Adrian Lester of Cambridge University , in a recent Nature article , that red deer from the last Ice Age evolved into a dwarf form in less than 6000 years after being marooned on the island of Jersey . |
| 10 | Marine fishkeeper Ian Durnall , from Wolverhampton , was flown to hospital after being stung on the finger by his pet Lionfish reports the Daily Mirror . |
| 11 | The extent of the Guinness world conquest can be imagined from a letter sent home to Ireland by an Enniskillen Dragoon recovering in Belgium after being wounded on the battlefield of Waterloo in 1815 . |
| 12 | Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm . |
| 13 | After being smacked on the head with a baseball bat ( wielded by Steve ) for a couple of hours , I remembered how to do it . |