Example sentences of "after [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A £5-A-RACE flagman was today facing the prospect of disciplinary action over the Grand National fiasco after being made the scapegoat in the official inquiry report . |
| 2 | I was dragged out of bed half asleep after being kidnapped the night before . |
| 3 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
| 4 | LITTLE Laura Davies can not wait to start school after being given the all-clear to travel home following her double transplant operation in America five months ago . |
| 5 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 6 | With punters across the country totally baffled , the field regrouped and , after being given the go-ahead by course officials after an eight minute break , started again , this time jumping the offending obstacle . |