Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] [noun] later " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The club was struggling 18 months later and players were in a cushy position . |
| 2 | Its ornate Town Hall was completed in 1858 and was ceremonially opened by Queen Victoria herself , while the oval , glass-domed Corn Exchange was erected three years later . |
| 3 | I knew the answer before I was recalled twenty minutes later , and Dr Barton pronounced judgment . |
| 4 | The vote was widely seen as a referendum on the LDP 's controversial UN Peace Co-operation Bill , which was withdrawn three days later . |
| 5 | His interest in tidal rivers began with work on the River Boyne and culminated in 1839 with re-employment in his native country as engineer to the Clyde River Trust , a post from which he was dismissed six years later after criticizing the trustees in a Glasgow newspaper . |
| 6 | The legendary mole hole was exposed 30 years later when a startled construction crew smashed into it . |
| 7 | Nizan 's willingness to envisage international diplomacy as an act of moral integrity rather than a process of tactical and strategic expediency was highlighted several years later in May 1939 , at a moment when Stalin tightened his grip on foreign policy by replacing Litvinov with Molotov . |
| 8 | Published for consideration by the deputies and in Supreme Soviet committees on Oct. 16 , it was presented formally by Gorbachev and approved in principle without a debate on Oct. 19 , and was given final approval later the same day , with minor amendments proposed by committees , by 333 votes to 12 , with 34 abstentions . |
| 9 | The all-clear was given three hours later after police confirmed that the fumes were not poisonous . |
| 10 | Given the go-ahead in 1793 , it was completed 30 years later . |
| 11 | When the bridge was completed 28 years later , it was the elegance of Brunel 's bridge rather than the sublime scenery which came to symbolise the Gorge for visitors . |
| 12 | His hat-trick was completed seven minutes later when Donnelly found him from midfield , and he made no mistake beating the lonesome figure of Keeley . |
| 13 | He never played in a Test again and was to retire three years later . |
| 14 | President Mouawad was assassinated 17 days later and was succeeded on Nov. 24 by Elias Hrawi , who on the following day formed a new government . |
| 15 | General Sawaeng was sacked two hours later for ‘ ineptness ’ . |
| 16 | When she was asked to work on Sunday 5 July , she refused and was sacked two days later . |
| 17 | Fig. 1.12 Root marks on bone : Recent cow rib from Draycott , Somerset ; the cow died in 1977 and was excavated 8 years later , and the vegetation around the bone was exclusively nettles ( breadth of root impressions is approximately 300 microns ) ; the root marks are shown in three increasing magnifications from top to bottom : A ×12 ; B ×15 , C ×75 . |
| 18 | The area was mortared 15 minutes later . |
| 19 | It was reported 18 days later . |
| 20 | He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war . |
| 21 | Lee produced Chelsea 's equaliser after 34 minutes , was booked 10 minutes later for a foul — and sent off after 73 minutes for his second bookable offence , when he kicked the ball away . |
| 22 | She recovered well and was discharged eight days later . |
| 23 | He was discharged two days later with no recurrence . |
| 24 | Elizabeth 's stay in 1826 was a short one ; admitted on 22 August , she was discharged three days later , on 25 August . |
| 25 | The patient arrived by train on a Wednesday , was operated on the next morning , and was discharged 24 hours later . |
| 26 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 27 | The mine itself was attacked one week later . |
| 28 | The Government Actuary 's Department prepared a document in 1980 which sets out a suggested basis for making the calculation and this was supplemented ten years later by recommendations from a committee of industrial tribunal chairmen . |
| 29 | At other times they would collect along the river bank and the younger Martyn was to write many years later of Crocus vernus , ‘ I remember , when a boy , to have seen it in considerable quantity in Battersea meadow , near the mill ’ . |
| 30 | While there were , therefore , good grounds for pessimism about future progress , the question of whether integration could proceed beyond a limited sectoral level was answered three years later by the Treaty of Rome . |