Example sentences of "[was/were] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born . |
| 2 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 3 | Yeah it were after I 'd had summat to eat . |
| 4 | This was after the interest bill surged to £11.5m from £3.8m , negating operating profits . |
| 5 | It was after the boy was born that I came to live in London . |
| 6 | It was after we left them that my father opened his own bank account . |
| 7 | Maurice said — it was after the others had gone — Maurice said , ‘ Seen much of McCloy lately , Charlie ? ’ |
| 8 | It was after I left school . |
| 9 | IT WAS after the Manchester City board appointed John Benson as manager in 1983 that Peter Swales , the chairman , announced : ‘ It was a unanimous choice — which is unusual for us . ’ |
| 10 | IT WAS after the Manchester City board appointed John Benson as manager in 1983 that Peter Swales , the chairman , announced : ‘ It was a unanimous choice — which is unusual for us . ’ |
| 11 | This was after David had split up with Hermione and was nursing a broken heart . |
| 12 | The time for examination was after order had been restored and , rightly , she rejected the simplistic connection between high unemployment and rioting . |
| 13 | The lamb he was after he saw now was a black and white one that had been sickly and Jack had kept in the lambing-shed a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ You did n't know I was after it as well , did you ? ’ |
| 15 | The first penalty was after the Pontypool front row had scrummaged illegally and the other when Taylor had handled in a ruck . |
| 16 | It was after I thought about that that I began moving my things to the cave . |
| 17 | It was generosity and wisdom I was after when I climbed up the steps to her small office which was set apart from the larger huts in the forest clearing . |
| 18 | Sometimes , if they did n't know the one I was after , they sent me off in search of one or two they had of their own . |
| 19 | It was after I had been deep in thought for a long time , stooped forward , that I looked up and saw Adrar , like the celestial city , its towers and palms floating on the mirage of a lake . |
| 20 | Chapman did n't want Oldham to know that Taylor was the man he was after in case they refused to part with him . |
| 21 | It was after Frank Hoddinott joined us in 1923 that Palace fans ( all too briefly ) saw Whitworth at his best . |
| 22 | Of course the two regimes , of legacy and trust , were assimilated to each other in certain relatively minor respects ; but Gaius was still able in the mid-second century to state that there were many differences between legacies and trusts ( multum autem differunt ) , and this was after the rules on capacity had finally been brought into line by Hadrian . |
| 23 | That was after he accused Berkeley 's Philosophy Professor of having ‘ idiotic ’ notions during a long debate on whether computers will ‘ think ’ like people in three centuries hence . |
| 24 | It was n't just impregnation she was after , it was quality impregnation . |
| 25 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |
| 26 | ‘ I think it was after we 'd talked a bit and then played a bit our personalities seemed to go well together and our playing did as well . |
| 27 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ It was after John Bond had left and we ( Orient ) had to play at Burnley on the last Saturday . |
| 29 | It was after Vincent went back to The Hague to collect some belongings that his correspondence with his brother became really acrimonious . |
| 30 | That was after Andy Cole had wasted a golden opportunity to put City ahead , shooting weakly at Lions keeper Casey Keller . |