Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] after a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOD orders are coming through after a recent exhibition in Scandinavia . |
| 2 | Every loan should be followed up after a certain period of time . |
| 3 | Partick 's troubles were added to when Grant Tierney had to be stretchered off after an accidental clash of heads with Mitchell early in the second half . |
| 4 | The Matanzimas were forced out after a military coup nearly two years ago . |
| 5 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 6 | Ratcliffe , who is in the Welsh squad for next week 's World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands was carried off after a fifth-minute collision with Geoff Pike . |
| 7 | It was set up after a three-year campaign by an all-party war crimes group . |
| 8 | Robson was ruled out after a week-long struggle to overcome a niggling calf injury in the hope of helping United put right their Wembley disappointment in last year 's final , when they surprisingly succumbed to Second Division Sheffield Wednesday . |