Example sentences of "after [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An announcement concerning changes to the Food Hygiene ( Amendment ) Regulations was received after thee April issue of Hospitality had gone to press and consequently the information on temperature in our Refrigeration feature was , unfortunately , incorrect . |
| 2 | ‘ After my uncle 's death , my father moved into the house . |
| 3 | And I will make every effort to see that after my departure you will always be able to remember these things . |
| 4 | Jane was a Welsh woman from the Gower Peninsula , and there was something about her that my grandfather had not realized when he married her after my grandmother died so young : she came of very inbred stock , and had periodic mental lapses . |
| 5 | After my wife and I had shared our experiences , it was a crazy time in our lives . |
| 6 | After my waters broke I had an uncontrollable urge to push but the midwife told me not to . |
| 7 | A few months after my return Goreng found a use for the less obviously subtle or versatile of his captives , which while turning them to material advantage also catered for a certain desired degree of planned redundancy . |
| 8 | You 're not after my glasses are you ? |
| 9 | I became so quiet and lonely and sometimes I did n't even want to see my husband ( after my daughter was born and when she was a baby ) . |
| 10 | In Uganda I used to wear very beautiful clothes but after my daughter 's birth I do n't know what happened to me . |
| 11 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 12 | After my friends had left quietly , some two hours later , I undressed and tumbled into bed . |
| 13 | If it had n't been for you , after my fall … . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ After my Occultation , ’ said Hasan , ‘ will I be able to see ? ’ |
| 15 | I know this because after my machine arrived , the salesman whose job it would have been to persuade me to buy it , had I not been too quick for him , came to see me anyway . |
| 16 | She lived in a first-floor council flat with her husband , Alex , who was admitted to hospital as an emergency with a gangrenous left foot three weeks after my visits began . |
| 17 | Furthermore , should the unit go in before or after my chorus and delay pedals ? |
| 18 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 19 | After my dream last night I had such hopes , too . ’ |
| 20 | Mum got him when she was on her own after my Dad died . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ but after my talks with Wilkinson there was not much doubt — i have to play to be in line for a world-cup squad place . |
| 22 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 23 | Coming from a first-generation immigrant family there was a strongly defined work ethic and after my father died heavy responsibility was thrust upon us . |
| 24 | But in 1888 , two years after my father was born , the newly constituted county councils were created and Oxfordshire was systematically governed for the first time . |
| 25 | I once told my brother the comic after my father had read it to me earlier . |
| 26 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 27 | I enjoyed the work and college life very much , but after my father 's death I stopped doing my work at the college . |
| 28 | ‘ After my father died , I was very unhappy and things went wrong for me too . |
| 29 | After my father 's death , my mother found |
| 30 | The pity of it was , not long after my father died in 1933 things improved quite a lot in the material sense . |