Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 2 | The 30-year-old man , who has not been named , died despite the efforts of coastguards and ambulancemen , who tried to revive him after a failed rescue attempt by surfers . |
| 3 | He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’ |
| 4 | It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions . |
| 5 | The German Environment , Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Minister , Klaus Töpfer , initially expressed disappointment with the French action , but agreed to respect it after a meeting in Strasbourg on Aug. 31 with the French Environment Minister , Ségolène Royal , pending further talks later in the year . |
| 6 | Tokes suspended his hunger strike on Sept. 11 to avoid pre-electoral controversy , but threatened to resume it after the second round of presidential elections . |
| 7 | So when I bought a dog I decided to name him after a man I admired so much . ’ |
| 8 | He found his colleague struggling with two youths , and managed to arrest one after a brief chase . |
| 9 | Physio Alan Smith raced on and battled to revive him after the former record buy had blocked his air passage by swallowing his tongue . |
| 10 | Many heiresses could give him dollars , few could offer him the appearance and manner of a lady — it was that which had attracted him after the cruder charms of such as Maybelle Foy . |
| 11 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 12 | This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny . |
| 13 | The new five-party government , which was sworn in on April 12 , comprised those three parties which campaigned jointly in the election as the Alliance for Germany ( the CDU , the DSU and Democratic Awakening — DA ) , the SPD and the League of Free Democrats ( BFD , as the Liberal Democratic Party had renamed itself after the election — see p. 37302 ) . |
| 14 | The Chinese have given just enough support to the allies to bring themselves back into favour with the western governments , particularly America 's , that had spurned them after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 . |
| 15 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 16 | When these were matched and pairs of hearing signers were established , only eight pairs were found in our data where people acquiring sign before the age of 25 years had similar experience to those who had acquired it after the age of 30 years . |
| 17 | I always intended to visit him after the war , but you know how it is : things were difficult , I was confoundedly busy at the University , I did n't particularly want to see Viola again though you 've got to swallow the pill with the jam , have n't you , and there was no particular reason why I should n't see her again . |
| 18 | He omitted to ask whether the King intended to marry her after the divorce , but this apart he discharged his difficult duty faithfully . |
| 19 | Pike refused to say anything after the case . |