Example sentences of "[noun] later [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The rebellion of the American colonies in the eighteenth century confronted the British with an axiom which , for reasons which are capable of being understood , they found so unpleasant that more than two centuries later they have still not ceased attempting to wish it out of existence .
2 Centuries later he lifted his head .
3 Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time .
4 About six months later they became lovers .
5 In September 1934 the USSR had joined the League of Nations , and six months later they signed a pact with France .
6 My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa .
7 Four months later they filled in further questionnaires .
8 got the er three months later they received thirteen hundred pound pay off from insurance Commercial Union and promptly bought a replacement car .
9 The six participants also took a risk in buying the building without planning permission , but some months later they obtained consent for change of use from school premises to residential/studio units and the architect was able to instruct a builder to commence Stage 1 — the conversion of the building into six basic , serviced ‘ shells ’ .
10 Four months later they closed it just like that .
11 Then a few months later we got a phone call from him asking myself and the singer to come out to Britain , and so we came out .
12 But do n't you remember they kept kept saying they were going to shut us down shut us down and then six months later we went there and then ah no they 're not shut us down and
13 Do n't you remember they kept saying , they kept saying there gon na shut it down , shut it down , and then six months later we went round there , oh no there no shut
14 Two months later we pushed off to Paris and , except for one little episode , the journey went well .
15 Some months later I received an emotional telephone call from my happy former patient .
16 When I run away twelve months later I took two 'undred and nineteen pennies with me , which meant I 'd showed him me legs two 'undred and nineteen times in a year .
17 Six months later I collected her from quarantine .
18 Erm and while I was married I bought it back for twenty and a few months later I sell it for ten pound .
19 A few months later I saw two who 'd been evacuated from Sarajevo to Zagreb so they were still alive .
20 Months later I searched London but never found her .
21 Some months later I got a cheque for six hundred dollars — apparently a programme in America had done a feature on what can happen when you ask a stupid question and that was my fee for being included .
22 Several months later I returned to visit the Chief Steward .
23 Five months later I have a friend and companion who will never be sold or replaced ; a friend who knows more about Clare than anyone else .
24 Five months later I have at last gained my confidence on Southall ; most of it is the trust and respect we have for each other .
25 Three months later I found myself settling down to life on a research station in the Amazon rainforest in eastern Ecuador .
26 A few months later I found that I was pregnant .
27 Some months later I paid him back , ignoring his ridiculous caveats and quibbles about interest rates because they were frankly unintelligible , and we 've been mates and muckers ever since .
28 Just 19 months later it achieved the dubious distinction of being the only Royal Commission to be wound up without producing a report when it collapsed over internal differences as to the scope of its report and how it should proceed .
29 Some months later it dawned on me that he had put his hands on my head and what this implied !
30 Months later it had arrived in the post and since then it had stood in its velvet frame , beside her mother 's bed .
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