Example sentences of "took [adv prt] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Replacing the highly popular Mr Dubcek was no easy task , but on the grounds that Janos Kadar salvaged something in Hungary when he took over after the popular uprising of 1956 , Mr Husak might have achieved something . |
| 2 | One of them said : ‘ When the Communists took over after the war , some of the Fascists became the best Stalinists of all . |
| 3 | Hooves sounded loud in the yard as Colonel Winckler took off after the Prince . |
| 4 | According to Hyde , the ‘ purge ’ only really took off after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 when the two diplomats fled to the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Artemis 's horse whipped round twice , plunged and bucked , and then with Artemis , much to its apparent displeasure , still well on board , took off after the leading group . |
| 6 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |