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Example sentences of "he [verb] after the [noun] " in BNC.

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1	The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action .
2	In a broadcast he made after the war , he described the journal as one " which had clearly failed of its purpose several years before events brought it to an end " .
3	His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war .
4	When A had lived x years he became the father of B. He lived after the birth of B y years and had other sons and daughters .
5	Townsend oozed confidence from his first kick to touch , and he agreed after the match that being part of the Scottish squad had done much to sharpen his game .
6	Or perhaps that 's why he goes after the women .
7	He asked after the Queen and the prince replied : ‘ She is in very good spirits .
8	He looks after the preparation of the balance sheet and deals with the tax inspector . ’
9	Well if he keeps , if he looks after the car and keeps himself right och it 'll be okay but if he 's gon na mess about and wreck the car well he 's he 's no way of getting to work .
10	Amanda Hornby has gardened here for 20 years and her husband ; he looks after the lawns .
11	They were on the dashboard of his getaway van , which he crashed after the £2,000 raid in Leigh-on-Sea , Essex .
12	Why should we allow your destructive race to flourish ? ’ he shouted after the Doctor .
13	The British and French , he noted after the event , had hurt themselves " immeasurably " by their action .
14	When he returned after the weekend he brought with him a tool that sums up his management style — a wedge , to keep his door open .
15	But Mancini is here guilty of reading back into Edward IV 's reign the tensions which he observed after the king 's death .
16	But Mancini is here guilty of reading back into Edward IV 's reign the tensions which he observed after the king 's death .
17	Jamie Hunter ( Toyota North Down ) finished with 4.04.31 , but unluckily for him he started after the Roe Valley rider .
18	Melanie tried to reconstruct his return , Aunt Margaret making tea , he asking after the newcomers and she telling him in her own way .
19	He hankered after the cheapness of Isobel and Fran .
20	He died after the Armistice , dysentry in Egypt .
21	He disappeared after the burglary . ’
22	He looked after the child , Daisy , they live in this crappy house with matchwood furniture , he works at some hamburger place , and waited for Susan Court to come home .
23	Then he looked after the income tax , which was a bit of a headache .
24	and my father was in the woods before the war and they , he , he looked after the woods and cut the trees down and everything and then they were sent
25	From that moment he looked after the rose garden and when the war came he said , ‘ Look here , if we get through this all right , we 'll make a garden together . ’
26	At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency .
27	He said after the case that the Department of Trade and Industry had been ‘ rather petty ’ in prosecuting him in the first place .
28	Coach Phil Larder also pinpointed shortcomings in the Widnes tackling at Leeds when he said after the match : ‘ Some of our defence was unbelievably bad .
29	He said after the funeral that his brother 's marriage had been a shot-gun affair never consummated .
30	‘ I have asked English Nature and the Countryside Commission for advice on priorities should it prove possible to designate new ESAs , ’ he said after the meeting .