Example sentences of "[vb past] after the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitor for the families , Joanna Kay revealed after the hearing that two children would now be allowed access visits . |
| 2 | And judging by the calls we got after the programme , there was n't much time . |
| 3 | It arose after the victory of Tannenberg , as a deliberate attempt by the German General Staff to distract attention from the failure of the Schlieffen plan in the west , and to associate themselves with Hindenburg 's triumph . |
| 4 | Of particular importance is the mention of transverse flutes : the inventories of the workshop of Nicolas Hotteterre , Martin 's cousin ( one in 1708 made after the death of his wife and the other in 1727 after his own death ) , do not specify them ; the first reads ‘ hautbois , flutes [ recorders ] , and other imperfect instruments valued together for the sum of 88 livres ’ and the second lists ‘ two dozen of which are fluttes [ sic ] as well as hautbois priced 24 livres ’ . |
| 5 | The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action . |
| 6 | In a broadcast he made after the war , he described the journal as one " which had clearly failed of its purpose several years before events brought it to an end " . |
| 7 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 8 | ‘ We all agreed after the dinner that George was obviously under the influence of drink , but that does not excuse saying that the greatest footballer of all time ‘ was n't bad for a nigger ’ . |
| 9 | Townsend oozed confidence from his first kick to touch , and he agreed after the match that being part of the Scottish squad had done much to sharpen his game . |
| 10 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 11 | Jan and Gabriel immediately rode after the thief . |
| 12 | He asked after the Queen and the prince replied : ‘ She is in very good spirits . |
| 13 | Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’ |
| 14 | As I gazed after the jeep , I thought ‘ Those two , I suppose , are lucky in a way , they are alive and have a Blighty ! |
| 15 | She struggled up , wiping a lump of mud from her forehead , and gazed after the car , which had not even slowed down . |
| 16 | Efforts in mid-July to resume oil talks suspended in late June failed after the government reportedly turned down UN conditions demanding that oil exports be channelled through Turkey to the Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan rather than through the Iraqi port of Mina al-Bakr . |
| 17 | When it met after the Conference it set up a subcommittee to draft acceptable Standing Orders with which it could approach the Labour Party National Executive . |
| 18 | When A had lived x years he became the father of B. He lived after the birth of B y years and had other sons and daughters . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll be able to work on your tan tomorrow , surf sweetie , ’ she shouted after the Daughter , ‘ but do n't hold your breath waiting for the tide to come in . ’ |
| 20 | Why should we allow your destructive race to flourish ? ’ he shouted after the Doctor . |
| 21 | I wound down the window of the car and shouted after the woman , ‘ Kilturk ? ’ |
| 22 | At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’ |
| 23 | Under SOGIT 1973 , the test of reasonableness was to be applied taking account of all the circumstances including those which occurred after the making of the contract , whereas , under UCTA 1977 , the test is to be applied to the terms of the contract at the time of contracting . |
| 24 | Yet the chaos that occurred after the election , when Brown was put into the DEA with the grand title of First Secretary of State , showed to what paltry use Wilson had put his unique background ( unique , that is , since the death of his predecessor , Hugh Gaitskell ) as skilled Whitehall technocrat and top-flight politician and parliamentarian . |
| 25 | With sentences like ( 2a ) and ( 2b ) in which clause boundary and information unit boundary coincided , monitoring latencies were slower when target words occurred after the clause boundary than when target words occurred before the clause boundary . |
| 26 | The market must hope , however , that its business units do not emulate the mistakes which occurred after the City 's Big Bang and that the risky business of being a Lloyd 's investor becomes no more precarious . |
| 27 | The market must hope , however , that its business units do not emulate the mistakes which occurred after the City 's Big Bang and that the risky business of being a Lloyd 's investor becomes no more precarious . |
| 28 | The example , however , is not typical , for it occurred after the suicide . |
| 29 | Reaction times should be fast if the target phoneme occurred after the recognition point , and slow when it occurred before the recognition point . |
| 30 | Hendry rallied after the break , winning four of the next five frames to trail 7-6 , but his countryman steadied to take the next two frames and seal victory . |