Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four youngsters were plucked to safety yesterday after becoming trapped on a cliff ledge at Seaham after the tide cut them off . |
| 2 | Pat McCourt of Craigavon and her three sisters were born in Portsmouth , but were placed in care soon after the death of their mother . |
| 3 | THREE people were treated in hospital today after passengers and crew had to swiftly leave an aircraft by emergency chutes when smoke appeared in the cockpit . |
| 4 | SCREAMING relatives were dragged from court yesterday after a joyrider who killed two children was attacked in the dock . |
| 5 | Fat sticky horse chestnut buds ; coal-black ash buds with green flower clusters in pairs on the branches ; reddish-brown oak buds splitting open to reveal tiny glossy yellow-green leaves : trees were coming to life again after the long winter |
| 6 | A WRECKED block of maisonettes at Dagenham , east London , where four people were taken to hospital yesterday after a gas explosion . |
| 7 | FIVE people were taken to hospital yesterday after a two-car accident at the Kinninvie crossroads on the road between Staindrop and Eggleston in Teesdale . |
| 8 | TWO women were taken to hospital yesterday after a crash involving a bus and a car . |
| 9 | A FATHER and son on a fishing trip were guided to safety yesterday after losing their compass overboard . |