Example sentences of "only [vb -s] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed this is a fresh act of God 's grace , which many a one only receives after much labour . |
| 2 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 3 | At the moment , her organisation only looks after men , but more and more women — some with children — are asking for help . |
| 4 | Elimination only occurs after three stops at the same obstacle — in theory you could have two stops at every fence without being eliminated . |
| 5 | Yeah but Arthur she only takes after you for that . |
| 6 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 7 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |