Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] after [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 2 | Mark has settled well after a hiccough at the start . |
| 3 | In fact the Middle East has recovered well after the Gulf War . |
| 4 | Howe has returned home after a scare over a chest condition . |
| 5 | Reed has taken his chance to impress and win the place that might have gone to England 's Wade Dooley , who has returned home after the death of his father . |
| 6 | As such , the continued separate attitudes of Nottinghamshire miners towards the working practices implemented by the NCB ( see Krieger , 1983 ) point to the fact that the Dukeries culture has lasted long after the events and institutions that created it , and provide a basis for appreciating why Nottinghamshire was different in 1984–5 . |
| 7 | As they did detectives continued their search for the driver who 'd disappeared immediately after the crash . |
| 8 | She sank down on to the bed and glanced at the writing pad that she 'd tossed there after a brief effort to write to Arnie . |
| 9 | The second quotation should have closed immediately after the words ‘ New Foreign Office ’ , but as the paper stands it can easily be misconstrued that the Report recommended Scott 's appointment . |
| 10 | Responding to the Amnesty report in a BBC interview on April 19 , the then Minister for Planning , Salman Abdul Razek as Mutawa , denied that human rights violations were continuing unchecked , although he acknowledged that some human rights violations may have occurred immediately after the liberation of the country . |
| 11 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 12 | As it turned out , the police officer concerned told us that , provided the details Carol remembered under hypnosis tallied precisely with the details she had given immediately after the crime , there would be no problem . |
| 13 | The only minor consolation was that prices had fallen just after the war , though that situation was not to last long . |
| 14 | The two security men Dexter had interviewed immediately after the murder were on duty when the sergeant loped into the headquarters of TV London late that same afternoon . |
| 15 | They had done so after a period of co-operation and consultation with East Germany which looks in retrospect like a laying of the groundwork for what was to come in both Germanys . |
| 16 | After all , during the First World War prices had been held to a twofold increase : the inflationary explosion had occurred immediately after the war . |
| 17 | It was never clear exactly what in his wife 's behaviour had felt so rejecting and triggered off his attack on her , but the attack had occurred shortly after the birth of their first child . |
| 18 | While France was content for Germany to remain divided , it was concerned about its new neighbour , the Federal Republic of West Germany , not least about the rapid economic growth that had occurred there after a major currency reform in 1948 . |
| 19 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 20 | There was that staunch anti-militarist , socialist and crypto-anarchist , Anatole France , ( having attempted to enlist , aged seventy ) resuming his seat among the Conservatives of the Académie which he had abandoned shortly after the Affair . |
| 21 | Relations between the USA and Japan had deteriorated sharply after the successful Japanese occupation in 1931 of the Chinese province of Manchuria ; and American concern about the growing power of Japan in the Far East had greatly increased after the invasion of northern China by Japanese armies in 1937 ( AA , pp. 22–4 ) . |
| 22 | It was the tall woman who had slipped away after the funeral service . |
| 23 | The silence had seemed long after the habit of receiving notes , letters . |
| 24 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 25 | The girls had looked at each other curiously and Antonia had trailed obediently after the older woman . |
| 26 | Before lapsing into a coma Suzanne , who had left home after a row with her stepfather , told rescuers she had been held captive for a week . |
| 27 | ‘ Bruges ? ’ he had surmised solemnly after a moment . |
| 28 | The dissidents reportedly included former Liberian soldiers who had fled abroad after a failed coup attempt in 1985 [ see p. 34147 ] , when pro-Doe Army units exacted retribution against civilian inhabitants in the Nimba area Following the initial clashes between rebels and troops , the January 1990 fighting assumed a tribal nature , with rebels attacking members of the Krahn ethnic group ( to which Doe belonged ) , while regular forces sent in from Monrovia ( the capital ) retaliated against the principal Nimba tribe , the Gio . |
| 29 | For many years Shardlow was ‘ an improving place ’ , but the Derbyshire directory for 1857 observes that business had declined greatly after the opening of the Midland and other railways . |
| 30 | Although Syria 's relations with the USA had improved rapidly after the Iraqi invasion , relations between the countries had already grown closer during 1989 and early 1990 [ see pp. 37391 ; 37392 ] . |