Example sentences of "[vb pp] after [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Africa 's Administrator-General , Louis Pienaar , had proposed that all ballots be cast in numbered envelopes , which could be traced after the elections , and that the count should be conducted in the capital , Windhoek , over as long as five weeks . |
| 2 | A transition team to negotiate the handover of power from the FSLN to the UNO was formed after the elections , headed by ( for the UNO ) Antonio Lacayo , Chamorro 's brother-in-law , who had run her election campaign , and ( for the FSLN ) Cdr . |
| 3 | He told his wife , Lisa , of the lies at the weekend then revealed the truth in response to warm wishes received after the attacks . |
| 4 | If this is so , then these facilities are urgently needed , because it is intended to produce the revised OED in serial form , which means that forward cross-references could be rendered incorrect by revisions undertaken after the fascicles in which the cross-references appear had been published . |
| 5 | When L-arginine was given after the inhibitors , blood pressure returned to resting values within five minutes . |
| 6 | New recruits to Medau came forward after visiting the stand at the Royal Norfolk Show , and more joined after a Promotions Week in the Lowestoft area organised by Marlene McGee and Jane Fisk , with Come-and-Try sessions and demonstrations by Oulton Broad class members . |
| 7 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 8 | The university authorities claimed after the talks that they had offered a package of generous proposals in an attempt to settle the dispute . |
| 9 | His remarks coincided with an announcement in Tokyo that the president and all senior management of Showa Shell Sekiyu had resigned after the losses estimated at to $1.3 billion from foreign exchange deals which went wrong . |
| 10 | Cows to be milked twice a day , every day , water to be carried to all the cattle , fodder to drag to the high pastures , hay to be cut if the weather was benevolent , dry stone walls to be repaired after the ravages of winter , cows to be calved and ewes to be lambed ( usually in the middle of the night ) , horses to harness , drains to be dug … the list is endless . |
| 11 | The monkey won after the experts buried themselves in their portfolios while the chimp , called Ola , threw darts at names of companies listed on the Stockholm exchange . |
| 12 | Controversial clash with the RSC begins over Wesker 's play , The Journalists , which is cancelled after an actors ' rebellion . |
| 13 | Safety dropped after the businessmen feared for their safety if they took the stand . |
| 14 | The shelter was demolished and traffic lights installed after the trams departed in 1962 . |
| 15 | I 've looked after the kids for them while they 've gone to vote , anything to get them here , that was the thing . |
| 16 | looked after the kids |
| 17 | Past pupils have looked after the children of the aristocracy and European royals . |
| 18 | Such decisions can be made after the results of the internal preliminary exams in January become known . |
| 19 | Barthes attempts to ground his work in theory in two texts ; the article ‘ Myth Today ’ written after the analyses in Mythologies and published in English with them , and the later Elements of Semiology ( Barthes 1969 ) . |
| 20 | A MOTHER was being hunted after the bodies of two newly-born babies were found in an outside toilet at a derelict house in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 21 | For East the new name was Warren , named after the Lords of the Manor from the 13th to the 19th centuries . |
| 22 | Three main schools of fighting came into being : ‘ naha-te ’ , ‘ tomari-te ’ and ‘ shuri-te ’ , named after the towns on Okinawa that nurtured them . |
| 23 | Named after the strips of lead which used to be inserted between lines of metal type . |
| 24 | Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side . |
| 25 | Nigel Hawke celebrates his 1991 win on Seagram ( bottom ) , the horse ironically , being named after the sponsors of the race . |
| 26 | He was instrumental in developing Oxford and Cambridge Roads — both named after the Universities that held their annual river boat race on the River Thames into the Chiswick area — also Harvard Road , which was named after the American University who rowed against Oxford and Cambridge , at about that time , He extended his development to the other side of Chiswick High Road , including Thorney Hedge Road and Silver Crescent , Mr Tomlinson built houses in other areas close by , including Clarence Road , off Wellesley Road , and his son , Richard , became an architect and was involved in the building of the Gunnersbury Baptist Church in Wellesley Road . |
| 27 | Glistening wing colours could still be seen after the insects themselves had faded into the blue . |
| 28 | Two of the women had their throats slit after the rapes , ’ the report states.Victims have been assaulted in different situations , said Ms Hampson . |
| 29 | As soon as the shops opened after the holidays he was going to go out and buy himself a tie ! |
| 30 | Some fresh approach to understanding the management problems in secondary schools could be much needed after the upheavals of 1985/86 . |