Example sentences of "[to-vb] 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 | While courts and tribunals will again be reluctant to conclude that you have forfeited your entitlements , it makes sense to ensure that there is no question of your employer being able to argue later that there was no dismissal , if that does not suit you . |
| 7 | The Swedish painter was surprised to learn later that Modigliani had a wife and child . |
| 8 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
| 9 | She liked to think later that the dream was in some sort prophetic . |
| 10 | A note of the fact that they have started out equally separated from each other , are now marching in parallel straight lines , and we need to check later that they are still separated by equal distances and still going in the same direction . |
| 11 | Both ladies were to say later that they knew the young man by sight , but not by name . |
| 12 | It pointed out that , where parties seek to negotiate during the course of disciplinary proceedings and an agreed formula is worked out , it would be ‘ most unfortunate ’ if the mere fact that agreement was reached while the proceedings continued enabled the employee to say later that there was a dismissal . |
| 13 | It may be necessary to chart events and actions to be able to show later that teachers acted promptly and appropriately ; in child abuse particularly , but also in other cases , careful records may be helpful in protecting the child or someone else from harm . |