Example sentences of "[verb] after [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRANSPORT helpline clerk Bill Goulding was sacked after swearing at a caller and hurling his phone headset out of a window , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 2 | Public outcry followed the revelation that Ben Silcock , who was mauled after climbing into the lions ' compound at London Zoo , was severely mentally ill and was not getting adequate treatment . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Jure Pelivan , a Croat , resigned after talking to the demonstrators , an unofficial source said . |
| 4 | Clarke had 14 stitches in a knee wound after colliding with a goal post in a reserve match before Christmas . |
| 5 | The vehicle starts after cranking on the starter , and runs perfectly until I switch off , and then the whole process has to be repeated . |
| 6 | They fled after calling at a house where the vehicle was blocking a narrow country lane . |
| 7 | CHEERING crowds greeted Jack Lammiman and his crew when they sailed home to Whitby , North Yorks , after following Columbus 's route to America — where they were rescued after drifting for a month with engine failure . |
| 8 | This aircraft , together with S1263 and S1264 , was also modified to accept installation of three 825hp Rolls-Royce Buzzard IIMS engines , the first machine so updated flying in March 1932 , and being redesignated Iris Mk V. Both S1263 and S1264 were lost in 1933 , S1263 sinking after colliding with a launch in Plymouth Sound . |
| 9 | The Sargasso Sea is also said to have been the site of the ancient lost island of Atlantis where the eels could have once again found fresh water and been able to feed after spawning in the nearby sea . |
| 10 | The Co Antrim team certainly had cause to celebrate after storming to the title after five years in the doldrums … and now they aim to go from strength to strength . |
| 11 | Skin disinfection should , therefore , be avoided unless absolutely necessary invariably confined to high volume , high risk production with the disinfectant being applied after washing as a separate process before starting work . |
| 12 | He had been sentenced after going on a two-month crime spree . |
| 13 | One firemen was slightly injured after slipping on the roof . |
| 14 | Cyclist George Rimmington , 72 , and motorbike rider Graham Brown , 29 , were seriously injured after crashing in a gale near Scunthorpe . |
| 15 | An Oxford University student has died after falling from a second floor window during a party . |
| 16 | Extremely long lengths of gutter for Austin Rover on its ‘ Flight Shed ’ building at Longbridge are shown after relining with an in situ GRP gutter lining system without disturbing the existing gutters and also maintaining their full flow capacity |
| 17 | He had offered to resign after singing on a TV chat show just after seven men had been killed by the IRA . |
| 18 | The man drowned after falling from a white water raft on a river also in California . |
| 19 | As the cabinet 's toughest fighter ( and worst-dressed member ) , Mr Clarke knows how dishevelled he could look after grappling with a budget deficit forecast to be £50 billion ( $18 billion ) this year . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the patient deteriorated after fashioning of the porto systemic shunt . |
| 21 | Williams was disqualified after falling in the race , sending Sweden 's Maria Akraka and Italian Fabia Trabaldo sprawling . |
| 22 | Mr Hart and his wife , Ruth , managed to get Mr Durrant invited after hearing about the planned celebrations . |
| 23 | Eleven independent full-length cDNAs were isolated after screening with a probe encompassing the c- fms first coding exon . |
| 24 | But officials admit some livestock has simply disappear after coming into the country . |
| 25 | Was n't interested in sc Well I mean interest I suppose But I think what it was to start with I I missed the first term , you know after passing for the county , I missed the first term . |
| 26 | But all we can hear after turning off the recording is the sound of the same male making the same clicking sound . ’ |
| 27 | But still he held off arresting Gandhi , though other leaders were quietly put away , and thousands of Indians were arrested after wading into the sea to collect water for salt . |
| 28 | Today Oxford Crown Court heard Walker was arrested after crashing into a police car , which blocked his path on a motorway slip road . |
| 29 | It was realised ( admittedly in connection with problems over legal aid payments , rather than dissolution of partnerships ) that difficulty might ensue where a solicitor continued to practise after applying for a renewal only to have his application eventually rejected . |
| 30 | One major source of pesticides in our diet is potatoes , because these are sprayed after harvesting with a pesticide called thiabendazole , to prevent them from going mouldy . |