Example sentences of "[was/were] called [adv prt] after the " in BNC.

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1 However , mass meetings organized in Vietnam to condemn " counter-revolutionaries in Poland " were called off after the Polish government formally protested at Vietnam 's " interference " in Poland 's internal affairs .
2 Police were called in after the fourteen month old grey colt was found dead on a farm on road in Lincoln .
3 The round was called off after the injured Andy Galvin was taken hospital .
4 A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role .
5 It was called off after the principal , Dr David Kennedy sent a confidential letter to Mrs Falconer .
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