Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] after the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tabitha swooped along after the bird , over rubble , through coulisses , under gantries of black bone where vast unknown machinery slept , covered in fawn dust . |
| 2 | My leg , which never mended properly after the accident , has not liked being cooped and cramped and bound , and like a mistreated animal it has turned against its master , making itself all pain . |
| 3 | In the afternoon we visit Fort George , an outstanding artillery fortification built soon after the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden to hinder any more armed threats to Hanoverian law and order . |
| 4 | The temptation to link the change with the disruption to equatorial atmospheric conditions produced by the El Chichon eruption in April is strong , and lends weight to the argument of researchers at the University of East Anglia that the major effect of the volcano on climate occurred soon after the eruption ( see next week 's New Scientist ) . |
| 5 | During the war opinion polls in the United States implied that around 80 per cent of people supported Bush 's Gulf policy ; this rose further after the start of the land war on Feb. 24 . |
| 6 | No one knew better than he their stubbornness and volatile fickleness , demonstrated repeatedly after the Exodus from Egypt . |
| 7 | Since 1966 , debate has been founded on resolutions moved immediately after the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's Budget speech . |
| 8 | ‘ I moved here after the Expo last year . ’ |
| 9 | Yesterday , he said he ‘ forgot ’ about the trip which he made shortly after the break-up of his second marriage to Dr Who actress Janet Fielding . |
| 10 | It was similar in many respects to the document Tolonen had brought to Li Shai Tung shortly after the event the papers drawn up by Major DeVore . |
| 11 | He replaces John Birch , who quit soon after the start of the season . |
| 12 | Suspicion of the king lingered on after the conclusion of the parliament of 1341 , and was probably intensified by his solemn revocation of the concessions he had made in that parliament at a council attended by all the magnates in early October 1341 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These provisions have been one of the major forces responsible for the complete change in standard terms and conditions for dealing with consumers that came in after the passing of the UCTA . |
| 15 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 16 | And yet , as I drove away after the visit I did n't feel good about it . |
| 17 | Mr Nemadzivhanani 's funeral oration came shortly after the capture of eight alleged APLA men on suspicion of having murdered Sandra Swanepoel , a farmer 's wife , near the Transvaal town of Tzaneen . |
| 18 | He taught her that the sacrament of the eucharist was so big that he did not feel that he had finished with it when he came home after the service at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning . |
| 19 | And then I came home after the sale . |
| 20 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And then Felipe came back after the war , and I knew I should have believed in myself and waited for him . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Although the majority of the people did n't know I believe that came out after the war , but people who were affected , they knew exactly that their son or husband was in Dachau |
| 28 | The discussion came about after the disclosure that at a recent meeting of the Southern Federation , there had been some discussion about a publication which was being produced by the police , covering details such a Treasure Trove , responsibilities of landowners and more . |
| 29 | ( b ) If the producer can prove that the defect came about after the time of supply by him , this will provide a defence ( s. 4(1) ( d ) ) . |
| 30 | ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws . |