Example sentences of "[vb past] after [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The question arose after the Ladies ' Directory case in which Frederick Shaw was convicted of ‘ conspiring to corrupt public morals ’ , and in which one of the Appeal Judges , Lord Simons , had stated that ‘ there remains in the courts a residual power to conserve not only the safety , but also the moral welfare of the State ’ .
2 Teesside led after the foursomes 31/2 , 21/2 and the match was squared when Ian Liddle lost the top singles to Bradford 's match play champion Mark Cook .
3 For all his much-vaunted ‘ conversion ’ , it seemed that he still lusted after the pleasures of the flesh , still itched to finger the curve of Clare 's side , to feel her thigh brush against his .
4 Could this be the J. Holton who played after the Caddies ' Match in 1912 ?
5 The assurance came after the deaths of a father and his four young children in a house fire in Greenock early yesterday morning .
6 So we drove after the youths , who had begun singing again .
7 She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged .
8 ‘ What happened after the hotels ? ’
9 ‘ What happened after the computers ? ’
10 Dr Owen said : ‘ The Pakistani population arrived after the Indians and found the bulk of its employment in the North . ’
11 ‘ A lot of people do n't realise the movement still exists ; there is a notion that it folded after the rallies of 1976 , ’ says Patrick Corrigan , development co-ordinator with the group .
12 Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club .
13 The key to this was developing attitude scales , many of them named after the researchers who devised them .
14 The party captured three seats in total , winning back the two seats it lost after the resignations of James Rodgers and daughter Glenda .
15 Sheldukher scurried after the others .
16 man went after the girls .
17 They went after the speeches .
18 As is frequently pointed out , every government in the Sahel fell after the droughts of the early 1970s .
19 there were four people at the last meeting er and two others from the department a male and a female who looked after the bits of the department but I can not now remember what their names were let me just see if I 've got my notes which were written on the inside of a British Airways flight ticket come in , hi ya
20 My mother looked after the chickens .
21 There were n't many others , er perhaps only four more er in the in the town , but we were associated with the with the er branch which looked after the interests of the co-op employees .
22 He says the real Shakespeare was no more than the man who looked after the horses and the costumes .
23 Orchard House old peoples home in Sandford won a major safety award five months ago for the way staff looked after the residents .
24 They used to be part and parcel of the water authorities and looked after the rivers when we were one big body , as a water authority .
25 She walked into Cotherstone at seven o clock every morning to keep house for the ‘ Bothy Boys , the lads who looked after the hounds .
26 and my father was in the woods before the war and they , he , he looked after the woods and cut the trees down and everything and then they were sent
27 It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props .
28 The men looked after the fields and the garden .
29 And the men , from Corporal John Carrow who looked after the cars in the depot to which Liza was attached , upwards to the brigadiers and generals whom she drove , were all , little or much , aware of this striking-looking girl in the perfectly fitting uniform , whose expression seemed to alternate so swiftly and appealingly between gaiety and despair .
30 Hilda Sturge took on responsibility for the adult refugees , while the Committee , with Greta acting as honorary secretary , looked after the children .
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