Example sentences of "after his " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his relatively sudden rise to fame at Edinburgh , where he claimed the Commonwealth 10,000m title in only his second race over the distance , Solly 's four-year hiatus tested optimism to the absolute limit . |
| 2 | Müncheberg himself , promoted and highly-decorated , would fall in combat with American fighters over Tunisia during March 1943 after his 135th. victory . |
| 3 | MARK Thatcher was facing a big tax increase last night after his the Swiss-based bosses reportedly ended his £80,000 contract six months early . |
| 4 | Becketts Corner , named after Thomas a Beckett and Stowe Corner , where Mansell kissed the ground after his l987 win , named after Stowe School . |
| 5 | After his one and only lesson in watercolour from a visiting European called Rex Battarbee he went from strength to strength , passing on his considerable skills to four sons and various other members of an extended family . |
| 6 | Einstein licked his wounds after his long drawn out battle with Bohr about the uncertainty principle . |
| 7 | Paul was n't himself for months after his went . ’ |
| 8 | The followers of Ali were defeated after his won death and the deaths of his sons . |
| 9 | He can hardly talk , almost certainly ca n't see and although he was at the funeral probably does n't even realise that his son died in another road accident six months after his . |
| 10 | He was arrested shortly after his arrival and was detained without trial until September when he was sentenced to ten years ' hard labour for alleged espionage . |
| 11 | The sober intentions of his book were very different from the novels , plays and films which have created a mythical figure in modern culture of the artist as isolated and neglected , recognised only after his death , and whom the phrase ‘ genius and madness are near aligned ’ seems to fit . |
| 12 | The article , called ‘ Giacometti 's moral heroism ’ , is about a retrospective show of the sculptor 's work ten years after his death ; it does not include the name of any single work . |
| 13 | Back in Italy , after his departure from Auschwitz and his wanderings through Europe , he found that ‘ the things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me ’ , and that he wanted to write about them . |
| 14 | After his apprenticeship , he started work for a contract catering company called Partners at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden . |
| 15 | His new novel , PARADISE NEWS , will be published on 30 September , a week after his talk . |
| 16 | I had discussed the problems of insider analysis with him at a 1988 Police Conference , where he described how , on return to his force after his undergraduate degree , he had asked for permission to publish research material . |
| 17 | Cameron was speaking to the people nearest him , gathering suggestions , prompting , trying to draw in James Menzies , who looked sullen after his poor showing . |
| 18 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 19 | ‘ Gone after his girl . |
| 20 | On the very day after his arrival in the Tolbooth , the Lord Advocate 's officers already knew the name , the trade , and the movements of several people ( the Duke , Iain Logan , young Donald McCulloch ) . |
| 21 | Leonard 's circumcision took place , in accordance with Jewish law , on the morning of the eighth day after his birth ; several prayers of blessings being recited before the actual ceremony , at which Nathan his father offered the solemn prayer : |
| 22 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 23 | ‘ You screwing the IRA and Daddy boring Mummy and me over the roast beef with what a socialist champion you were , daughter after his own heart . ’ |
| 24 | The village was divided between those who wanted Saad 's name cleared and those who wanted the accusation against him proven even after his death . |
| 25 | After his death , the local paper carried a simple headline in Welsh , ‘ Mae Taid wedi mynd ’ — Grandfather 's gone . |
| 26 | ‘ Every man must have somewhere to go , ’ Marmeladov tells Raskolnikov who has dropped into the pub after his ‘ rehearsal ’ of the murder . |
| 27 | Some members want the IEE now to use more muscle , with threats of expulsion from the Institution , if Thomson does not at least provide a catalogue of the material he has collected and give rock solid guarantees on its long term security , after his death . |
| 28 | If Pound in this way did bypass Aubeterre , he missed something after his own heart . |
| 29 | But in the discreet , epicene efficiency with which he clears away Casio 's bowl of vomit or dusts down Othello after his fit , he is the finicky gentleman 's gentleman , his body language strongly reminiscent of Dirk Bogarde in The Servant . |
| 30 | Sunderland .......... 1 Sheffield United .... 1 WHAT gets up Dave Bassett 's nostrils , as he so vividly put it after his side 's draw at Roker Park , are the people who make comparisons between Sheffield United and his former club , Wimbledon . |