Example sentences of "[noun] after [pron] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three months after they were launched , the new awards are already generating a tremendous amount of interest . |
| 2 | I had my first baby ooh about ooh fourteen , fourteen or fifteen months after we were married , but I lost , I lost my first baby at three months . |
| 3 | Families from Aberdeen , Glasgow and Edinburgh were included in the study after they were referred by medical practitioners who knew of a strong family history of the disease . |
| 4 | 2 families had to leave their homes after they were terrorised by a mob , angry they 'd been helping the Police to catch the joyriders . |
| 5 | Monie , who guided the Cherry and Whites to four successive league and Wembley doubles , narrowly failed to lead them to the Grand Slam last term after they were beaten by St Helens in the premiership final . |
| 6 | Children were taken to hospital and teachers sent home from schools after they were overcome by fumes from the fire at ICI 's Lostock plant , near Northwich , Cheshire . |
| 7 | He trained his dogs to return to the kennels after they were sold . |
| 8 | Former workers repeatedly insisted there were quality problems with work after they were sacked and replaced by raw recruits . |
| 9 | The crew , an integral part of Hurworth village life , had to abandon a charity run from Rosyth in Scotland after they were ordered to the Gulf . |
| 10 | But why were n't they buried in the cemetery after they were shot ? |
| 11 | It is only now , decades after they were first written down , that the reading public can begin to have any sense of the extent and range of Tolkien 's mythological writings . |
| 12 | Like Irving Berlin , Fain became part of that group of early 20th-century American songwriters with a talent for producing simple melodies that remained popular decades after they were first heard . |
| 13 | In the semi-final they meet James Talbot and Michael Nutt of the Old Bleach Club , who will be seeking to gain some compensation after they were in the Old Bleach side which lost this season 's CIS Irish Senior Cup championship final to Carrickfergus by a mere five shots . |
| 14 | The Cleveland schools were selected for honours after they were visited by assessors . |
| 15 | Colonel and Mrs Talbot drew up their wills after you were born . |
| 16 | Lisa , 21 , was linked with Gilbey after she split with 30-year-old White 15 weeks after they were married . |
| 17 | The seven economists , drawn from the City of London and universities and business schools around the country , presented their preliminary report to the Treasury yesterday , less than two weeks after they were commissioned to debate the issues and give the Chancellor the benefit of their conclusions . |
| 18 | The seven economists , drawn from the City of London and universities and business schools around the country , presented their preliminary report to the Treasury yesterday , less than two weeks after they were commissioned to debate the issues and give the Chancellor their conclusions . |
| 19 | ‘ Two weeks after we were married , I asked how her pregnancy was going . |
| 20 | Crowe 's 107 gave the visitors faint hopes of saving the match after they were dismissed earlier for 102 , their lowest first innings total against Sri Lanka . |
| 21 | The procedures took so long that much needed links were not built until years after they were required . |
| 22 | Perhaps the last word might go to L. R. McColvin , whose views on the relationship between book provision and demand make interesting reading 35 years after they were written . |
| 23 | UNION leaders yesterday paved the way for the electricians to be readmitted to the TUC — four years after they were expelled . |
| 24 | Norman Broadbent , 2½ years after they were founded , was acquired by Charles Barker plc , a quoted company , as discussed in Chapter 1 . |
| 25 | ‘ Now , ye were born tae years after they were married . |
| 26 | And er I think there were some of them still in use about fifty years after they were made . |
| 27 | Finally , back to Stoke Mandeville and the return tonight of Bilal Shabib , and Samir Medina , five years after they were rescued from almost certain death in the civil war in Lebanon . |
| 28 | FOUR US marines were laid to rest in Virginia nearly 26 years after they were killed in Vietnam . |
| 29 | By coincidence , all three of these works by great Russian masters were revised by their composers , years after they were first performed . |
| 30 | Outside the courtroom , one of the defendants , Elizabeth Brimelow , a former director and head of compliance of County NatWest , said : ‘ Only a judge could say it is too soon two-and-a-half years after you were arrested . ’ |