Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] after the " in BNC.

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1 In my last year with Rangers I 'd looked after the S form signings — players like Ian Durrant and Derek Ferguson — but I knew I needed to see what life was like away from Ibrox . ’
2 I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them .
3 I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them .
4 I do nt think we should get too complacent as we may have a genuine bad run and things are pretty tight in the top 10 at the moment , but then again I did say after the Oldham match that 4 more wins on the trot would see us averaging 2 points a game , which is statistically Championship form .
5 ‘ I 'm sorry , truly I am , but I had to look after the boys .
6 The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’
7 Indeed , the slogan of the Partido por la Democracia ( PPD ) — the party she helped found after the demise of the Pinochet regime — is ‘ Democracy in the Country and at Home ’ .
8 She began to paint after the birth of her first child in 1973 .
9 ‘ I thought you liked looking after the shops . ’
10 If Mrs Hamilton had realised that she was pregnant , she would have stopped smoking , and in fact she did stop after the miscarriage . ’
11 With a faint , elusive smile , she recalled a similar sort of feeling when she had yearned after the paperboy when she 'd been fourteen .
12 It made her feel slightly sick now ; the satisfying feeling of warmth and lightness she had experienced after the first few glasses had long since disappeared .
13 She had to look after the family and the home , and sometimes she even had a part-time job as well .
14 Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ .
15 We enjoyed looking after the children very much .
16 We went bowling after the shopping on Saturday .
17 For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money .
18 They promised ta tax cuts , they promised to cut crime , they promised to look after the environment , they promised to improve e education , they promised to improve the the democratic process , they 're now the party of careful housekeeping .
19 They arranged to meet after the show , and Kattina took her to the houseboat which was her home .
20 In June 1960 the GPRA finally accepted his offer of official talks ( which they had rejected after the self-determination speech ) .
21 Parham , begun in 1577 for the Palmers , incorporated part of the monastic grange of Westminster they had bought after the dissolution but set a totally different style .
22 The links predated the Francoist regime ; the army had long been responsible for the training of footplate , traffic and other staff who entered RENFE through military service ( as they continued to do after the restoration of democracy ) .
23 Nicholson was in awe of Minnelli ; this was , after all , his first experience of a mainstream director of Minnelli 's vintage , and he began to worry after the first day when it was suggested he might get his hair cut .
24 He began to run after the first taxi , but it was soon out of sight .
25 He could remember how strange it had seemed after the base in Germany .
26 Marcus , with Pat , looked tired , resuming the look of weariness which he had worn after the ‘ resurrection ’ .
27 He had to leave after the first rehearsals when the only line he could remember was the one he 'd tried on the leading lady the night before .
28 Mr Brownlow explained that he had run after the boy only because he saw him running away .
29 He was thirty-six years old and had heavy family commitments ; it was late in life to change course , but he had hankered after the theatre for years and now decided to follow his instincts .
30 He had left after the scuffle ; had been seen to leave .
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