Example sentences of "was [adv] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | In nineteen sixty five , which was rather after I came here , he moved to the University of Sussex , where he became the first Dean of the new School of Biological Sciences , and that was the beginning of a very distinguished contribution to scientific work in this university . |
| 2 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 3 | This was long after Rol was dead . |
| 4 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 5 | It was only after he took two bullets in the thigh and wrist and a shotgun blast in the back , and his brother was murdered by rival gangs that he channelled his aggression into baseball . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | It was only after I had mentioned Miss Kenton that I suddenly realized how entirely inappropriate it would be for me to continue . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was only after Patrick Jenkin became Industry Secretary that we began to see the proliferation of industrial support schemes . |
| 10 | It was only after they had peered into and groped about in what they felt certain was the right cave but found nothing that they decided to withdraw into the trees and wait for the dawn . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was only after he had gone that they realized they had never asked his name or where he lived . |
| 13 | It was only after the mine was closed in 1979 that concern over pollution reappeared . |
| 14 | When Raft came to , he flew at Beery and it was only after several punches were exchanged that they were separated by the crew . |
| 15 | It was only after she had gone that I started to ponder why she had confided so much in me . |
| 16 | ‘ In fact , it was only after some debate that the organisers decided to carry on with the event , and some changes had to be made to the canoe course to make it easier for the rescue boats to assist competitors . |
| 17 | It was only after his appointment had been confirmed that Sutton demanded a nine-month notice period , which was in such stark contravention of the paper 's equality principles that Christine Jackson took his contract to the Board . |
| 18 | It was only after they had returned to the living room that she asked the question as she poured tea . |
| 19 | It was only after we had settled in and had sorted out our luggage that we realised that although it was still broad daylight , our watches told us that it was nearly two o'clock in the morning ! |
| 20 | It was only after she called him that he telephoned her . |
| 21 | It was only after they had offloaded the stock that the dealers would find out their teamleader had bought up large quantities of it himself . |
| 22 | It was only after late 1946 , inspired in part by a speech in Zurich by Winston Churchill , that support for European unity really began to gather pace . |
| 23 | It was only after a new system of physics had been devised , a process that involved the intellectual labour of many scientists over several centuries , that the new theory could be successfully matched with the results of observation and experiment in a detailed way . |
| 24 | It was only after the Cultural Revolution had ended and travel within China had once again become a possibility , that Zeng began to find his feet photographically . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was only after she had fainted at tennis that her father took her to a specialist who found that she had an extra vertebra . |
| 27 | Possibly it was only after they came together under the aegis of Apollinaire , one of the greatest artistic impresarios of his age , that they felt the attraction towards each other that was to result in the most unusual and intensive collaboration in the history of art . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But that was only after we had it for about thirty years or , or more . |