Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] after [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One child had previous failure to thrive and developed diarrhoea which persisted for 14 days ; the other eight failed to thrive after the onset of diarrhoea . |
| 2 | It was in the power of the Spirit that Jesus carried out his work of proclaiming the good news of God 's kingly rule ( Luke 4:18 ) : and it was in the power of the same Spirit that the disciples got to work after the resurrection . |
| 3 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Golf professionals sold equipment , gave lessons , and sometimes helped to look after the course . |
| 6 | Mr Lavelle , 25 , of Edgware , north-west London , collapsed and stopped breathing after an altercation with an opponent while playing for Hendon against Centaur , from West Drayton , west London , police said . |
| 7 | Police said Mr Lavelle collapsed and stopped breathing after an altercation with a player from the opposing side during a match on Saturday at Hendon , north London . |
| 8 | All subjects reported belching after the meal . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I asked the mechanic , Ian , who 'd looked after the David and Elizabeth King , if he 'd regret seeing her go ? |
| 12 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
| 13 | it came to seem after a while like a place of recuperation . |
| 14 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 15 | Many of the differences between the competing groups seemed to evaporate after the resignation of Peter Lawson , General Secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation , as a director of the London 2000 group . |
| 16 | The triple alliance which I originally sought to conclude after the peace of Frankfurt and about which I had already sounded Vienna and St. Petersburg in September 1870 , was an alliance of the three Emperors with the further idea of bringing into it monarchical Italy . |
| 17 | She began to paint after the birth of her first child in 1973 . |
| 18 | English organ music began to flourish after the King 's recruitment of two foreign organists , the Venetian Memo and Benedictus Opitiis , a Hofhaimer pupil , in 1516 . |
| 19 | They arranged to meet after the show , and Kattina took her to the houseboat which was her home . |
| 20 | Finding they had much in common , Coleman and Boohaker arranged to meet after the broadcast , and their subsequent friendship would doubtless have flourished anyway , even if the DIA had not pulled Coleman 's string in the autumn of 1989 and instructed him to cultivate the connection . |
| 21 | Early hostility to the United Front began to lessen after the departure of J. T. Murphy and Socialist Leaguers were soon involved in the controversies on Spain , the rise of Fascism and the need for " working class unity " . |
| 22 | We enjoyed looking after the children very much . |
| 23 | Its secular form began to die after the middle of the century and the geistlicher Gesang with tenor cantus firmus was supplanted , perhaps under the influence of the Calvinist psalms , by the so-called Kantionalsatz — melody in the highest part , the others note-against-note — to encourage congregational singing . |
| 24 | Turkish fortunes began to decline after the raising of the second siege of Vienna ( 1683 ) , and the Treaty of Karlovci ( Carlowitz ) in 1699 recorded the first major Ottoman defeat and the beginning of the slow retreat of the Turks from Europe . |
| 25 | Provincial market towns , in 1922 as throughout the Soviet period , collected the first rural tide of those looking for work — peasant vagrants , demobilized soldiers , and in the case of the Smolensk area , flax-workers out of a job as their industry began to decline after the boom of the war years . |
| 26 | But the disorders really began to escalate after the spring of 1715 , which saw the consolidation of the Whigs in power as a result of their success in the General Election of March , achieved with the full weight of royal patronage behind them . |
| 27 | A reaction against the occupation by the British began to develop after an incident in December 1813 when the then British commander , Major-General Gordon , condemned to death a British soldier for insubordination and the murder of a sergeant . |
| 28 | The major , striking and henceforth continuous improvement in these conditions only began to occur after the end of our period . |
| 29 | The thrill of the bananas started to fade after a while . |
| 30 | Britain 's most formidable political rivals , France and Russia , had imposing capital cities largely consisting of neo-classical buildings laid out in a formal manner , and the competition , with its coupled town planning and detailed design components , was a conscious attempt to provide London with visual images worthy of its far greater imperial status , which perhaps needed reaffirming after the trauma of the Crimean War . |