Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be [adv] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was just after he 'd flicked through one of them that Detective Constable Hodges ( blast his eyes ! ) had come in , walked over to the newspaper stall , and picked up the top copy but one from the Daily Mirror pile . |
| 2 | And it was just after Frank had left her and gone to live in that place in . |
| 3 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 4 | And it was only after John had given up playing that Palace at last fell out of the 1st Division , so it was only right that in September 1974 the club gave him a richly deserved Testimonial for his magnificent services . |
| 5 | She never told her husband about her relationship with Phillip Levy and it was only after both men had died that she made the difficult decision to confess her secret life . |
| 6 | When Raft came to , he flew at Beery and it was only after several punches were exchanged that they were separated by the crew . |
| 7 | After Arthur read that paralysing codswallop , the piece of business became impossible and it was only after Fred rang him up and ribbed him about it that he could manage to get the thing off his head again . |
| 8 | He translated for us and it was only after he had argued our case with the Head of Austrian Customs that we started to get somewhere . |
| 9 | Before she had time to think , she 'd raised her own glass in response and it was only after she 'd sipped her drink that she realised what she 'd done . |
| 10 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |