Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws . |
| 2 | And er so when I came back after the War he says er , I object to him starting , he 's not come f direct from conscription , he volunteered for the Army . |
| 3 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 4 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 5 | Well anyway George did tell me when I popped in after the funeral erm that you were hoping you 'd be here today , I said , oh well I said I 'll leave this here then you can . |
| 6 | I went out after the thief , I waited for him to return , and God pity me , I killed that innocent man ! ’ |
| 7 | And then I ran out after the |
| 8 | They are often sited in very desirable locations : mental hospitals , in particular , such as the former county asylums which sprung up after the Lunacy Act of 1847 , are located on the outskirts of towns , in landscaped grounds thoughtfully planned for the patients ' well-being . |
| 9 | It was Round Two in a bitter Battle of the Bills which broke out after the couple 's wedding last May . |
| 10 | Pro-monarchist police were suspected of involvement in a wave of violence and arson which broke out after the inauguration of the new government . |
| 11 | They are spurred by a marked sense of vocation : they are of the generation which grew up after the war when pollution came to be popularly identified as a serious problem needing urgent attention . |
| 12 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 13 | When she came round after the anaesthetic the first thing she says to the nurse is , Well , was I or was n't I ? |
| 14 | That seems to have confused the senior churchmen who spoke out after the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales was announced . |
| 15 | ‘ See you tomorrow , ’ she called to Sally but could n't think of anything to say to the man , so she ran off after the others . |
| 16 | ESSEX police are hunting a motorist who ran off after the stolen car he was driving overturned . |
| 17 | To this end we will be working closely with Music Aid , a group of volunteers from the music world who set up after the tragic Ethiopian famine in the mid nineteen eighties . |
| 18 | She hurried off after the others . |
| 19 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 20 | McGiven said : ‘ It 's as if subconsciously we switched off after the Wimbledon game and were caught off guard . |
| 21 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 22 | Well we picked up after the war a bit . |
| 23 | They scuttled off after the other boys . |
| 24 | Against the broad yellow light Cameron and Menzies could see the officer in silhouette , walking his horse forwards to meet a crowd in the road where it levelled out after the sharp rise from the bridge across to Grandtully . |
| 25 | Er he came along after the the Heworth Green er demonstration . |
| 26 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 27 | The clan held back politely as he swaggered down after the others into the sheltered hollow . |
| 28 | Oh it folded up after the war . |
| 29 | Replacing the highly popular Mr Dubcek was no easy task , but on the grounds that Janos Kadar salvaged something in Hungary when he took over after the popular uprising of 1956 , Mr Husak might have achieved something . |
| 30 | Lamb broke the TCCB 's rules on player silence when he spoke out after the lunchtime ball change during the fourth Texaco Trophy international between England and Pakistan at Lord 's in August . |