Example sentences of "after [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He was jailed for 13 years after Customs officers found three- quarters of a ton of the drug in the back of his lorry at Dover . |
2 | The charge came after Customs officers found cocaine worth £6 million on a trailer used by Vic Lee Motorsport , currently third in the touring car championship , at a ferry terminal in Sheerness , Kent . |
3 | The entire gang will be sentenced next month after customs officers apply to the courts to have the organisation 's assets seized , an estimated £3.5 million . |
4 | Peter Righton , 66 , was trapped after customs men carried out random checks on mail from Holland . |
5 | Pilcher 's first trials with the Bat in the summer of 1895 showed that Lilienthal had been right to insist that a horizontal tail surface was essential , and after modifications Pilcher succeeded in making a number of short downhill glides , but the dihedral angle was still too great for lateral stability . |
6 | Yesterday 's statement was agreed by more than 30 members of the securities industry and drawn up by Terry Pearson , senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank , after securities specialists met on Tuesday to find a practical replacement for Taurus . |
7 | The most notorious of those centred on an incident in December 1982 when two unarmed members of the Republican paramilitary organisation , the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) , were shot dead after police officers had stopped their car on the edge of Armagh . |
8 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
9 | Police went public after police cars were rammed and officers injured . |
10 | RAP AFTER POLICE RAFT RACERS ARE RESCUED |
11 | Youths rioted for two nights on the streets of Telford in the Midlands after police marksmen shot dead Ian Gordon early on Aug. 12 ; the 24-year-old black man , who had a history of psychiatric problems , had pointed a firearm at the policemen ; two witnesses were reported to have told police that the gun was unloaded and had no firing mechanism . |
12 | A picket was organised last week after receivers Robson Rhodes refused to withdraw redundancy notices issued to 67 staff . |
13 | The only partial exception is Peru : after Morales Bermúdez took over from Velasco in 1975 the military regime drifted rightwards and trade with the Soviet Union sharply diminished . |