Example sentences of "[verb] later [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 2 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 3 | A little to the north of it , I was delighted to discover , is a monastery by the name of Belloc , as if in honour of the English Catholic writer and Pyrenean devotee , Hilaire Belloc ( I was gratified to find later that there is at least one other Belloc or Bellocq in the Pyrenees ) . |
| 4 | He went to the youth 's ‘ assistance , ’ only to find later that he had assaulted a policeman who had seen the youth committing an offence . |
| 5 | She put her name forward to the chairman of the local party only to find later that he had approached her father to get his consent then double-checked by asking her husband for his permission too . |
| 6 | The effects of Esther 's stroke were not obvious at first , which made the doctors wonder if she had suffered a second stroke when they found later that she had a very severe left hemiplegia . |
| 7 | The two boats were running along the coastline on almost parallel courses , Ewen close in , perforce following the jagged line of the shore , and our boat ( I found later that she was called Sea Otter ) on a straight course some way out . |
| 8 | It transpired later that neither was seriously injured . |
| 9 | It transpired later that the social workers were all under instruction to have identification . |
| 10 | He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it ! |
| 11 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 12 | I learnt later that he and some of his lords considered I was wrong to have a conversation with enemies of Lilliput . |
| 13 | I learnt later that it was the island of Trinidad , and that my island was in the mouth of the River Orinoco on the north coast of South America . |
| 14 | We learnt later that they had also advised her neighbours to take out a summons against her for noise nuisance . |
| 15 | Martin learnt later that another team had beaten him to it . |
| 16 | It was often said later that it was in Switzerland that Muhammad Reza required a sympathy for aspect of democracy , and that his subsequent attempts to reconcile such notions with the governance of Iran proved to be difficult . |
| 17 | It was revealed later that they are to be held outside Liverpool at one of Britain 's four special secure units for child offenders . |
| 18 | I was told later that the designer at the Natural History Publications Section nearly broke down trying to put the pieces together , just as it was thought all the animals had been spotted and labelled , another would be discovered ; I think this was an exaggeration but it was a very tricky task . |
| 19 | We were told later that the fraud was so enormous — a total of $10 million — that reconstruction was impossible , and that any money the majority shareholders could put in would soon disappear into a large hole . |
| 20 | I was told later that many North Eastern residents were disturbed by her noise . |
| 21 | Indeed , both the lecturers I spoke to felt that some of their colleagues were less tolerant of dissent than they were ; we shall see later that some of the students felt this too . |
| 22 | We shall see later that the power of the occupiers to exclude or restrict their liability towards visitors has to a considerable extent been eroded by s. 2 Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 23 | We will see later that a model of the company infused with the imagery of contract , suggesting negotiation and mutually beneficial exchange , or at least optimal , market-induced equilibria , supports a different analytical and evaluative approach to current corporate governance arrangements from one which views those arrangements as partially shaped by management power , but that is a different debate from the one in which we are currently engaged . |
| 24 | We shall see later that it is sometimes necessary further to subdivide these groups in music of a complex nature , but the above arrangement is the normal one and departures from it should be as infrequent as is compatible with the adequate presentation of the music . |
| 25 | We shall see later that there is a close connection , at least in the short-term , between real national income and the level of employment in an economy . |
| 26 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 27 | Simultaneously the ball reached Breig at silly mid-off. he claimed later that he reacted instinctively on seeing Kalli several yards out of his ground , threw down the bowler 's wicket and appealed . |
| 28 | Ashraf claimed later that she had wanted to leave with her father but he insisted that she remain because " your brother needs you more " . |
| 29 | Marenches claimed later that the king replied that the Shah was his guest and that was that , Then , Marenches , says , he had to convince the king that his other duties , including the straits of Gibraltar , which was 'so vital for the camp of liberty " , must take precedence over hospitality . |
| 30 | A Dutch company in charge of the salvage operation claimed later that the problem had been made worse by the refusal of the Spanish and Moroccan authorities to allow the tanker to be towed into their ports for pumping of the remaining oil and for emergency repairs . |