Example sentences of "of [noun] after being [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE than 1,000 ex-servicewomen are to sue the Ministry of Defence after being sacked for getting pregnant . |
| 2 | Leslie lost two pints of blood after being stabbed through the heart while trying to arrest a suspected burglar . |
| 3 | Six families are currently enjoying the peace and quiet of England after being rescued by a Northampton teacher . |
| 4 | Last night the little boy , thought to be only 24 hours old , was out of danger after being treated for exposure . |
| 5 | The band had signed with a new label Compulsion only a matter of weeks after being cut by Phonogram , and their new album ‘ The Buffalo Skinners ’ is arguably their best since the ‘ The Crossing ’ . |
| 6 | A POLICEMAN who suffered months of agony after being shot by a small-time crook said yesterday : ‘ I ca n't wait to get back to work . ’ |
| 7 | A French soldier was flown out of Sarajevo after being shot in the arm . |
| 8 | Evaristo Porras Ardila , linked to the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel , was being held in the south-western city of Pasto after being deported from Ecuador on Sunday night . |
| 9 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 10 | EVIL Tom Courtney was thrown down a flight of stairs after being confronted by angry fellow prisoners , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 11 | By the time the Earthtrust team arrived , two nursing calves had already died of starvation after being separated from their mothers . |
| 12 | Earlier this week in Surrey , a businessman 's wife was beaten and robbed of seventy five thousand pound 's worth of jewellery after being attacked in her sports car on the M Twenty Five . |
| 13 | One of the boys at school knew a kid whose father worked with a man whose cousin died of rabies after being bitten by a rat from Bradford Beck . |
| 14 | HERO policewoman Leslie Harrison , fighting back from the brink of death after being stabbed with a screwdriver , vowed from her hospital bed yesterday : ‘ I love the job . |