Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] after a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man has been charged after a policeman was stabbed in the eye with a wooden stick . |
| 2 | A murder hunt has been launched after a man was shot dead in Scappa Street in Glasgow this morning . |
| 3 | A BRIDE-TO-BE says she could have been stranded after a wedding car company disappeared . |
| 4 | Since 1952 , when the New Hampshire election was first seriously contested , no President had been re-elected after a challenger in his party had scored 35 per cent or more in the state 's primary . |
| 5 | Two weeks earlier , on March 15 , Mehrdad Kowkabi , an Iranian student held in the UK for 15 months , had been deported after a court dropped charges of arson against him , and Iranian officials had been quoted as saying that the government might respond to this " positive step " by releasing Cooper . |
| 6 | Two youths have been arrested after a motorcyclist was seriously injured when he was hit by a stolen car . |