Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adv] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sections used were shortly after junctions 2 , 4 , 17 and 39 . |
| 2 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 3 | Mrs Travers and Mrs Patel had shown flair for public relations from the beginning ; and the beginning for them had been shortly after the famed conversation in Sainsbury 's , when they organised a summer procession in honour of family values in a South London borough particularly hard hit by both government spending cuts and feminists insisting that ‘ family values ’ were a euphemism for women doing the housework . |
| 4 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 5 | Sara 's best years , Slater continued , had been just after leaving school . |
| 6 | The first meetings with Ferrier and Neville had been soon after their arrival , via Jill Neville . |