How to use "after" in a sentence

It always comes after I've made some kind of mistake

Today, my plan is to hike through Blue John and Horseshoe Canyons after biking to the trail

I'll meet you after for a drink.'

It was carried along the canyon after heavy rain

I said I would meet Kristi and Megan after the hike

It's just after three o'clock on Sunday, April the 27th, 2003

I drank at 3.15 pm, just after I finished filming

Elliot, another friend of his, was moving into the house after Leona had gone

The time I woke up after the operation was the lowest point after my escape

On August the 31st, four months after the accident, I spoke at Sonja's wedding

The men wanted to find and kill the sea monster, but after all this time everyone on the ship started to believe that there was no monster

The door opened again after some minutes

They got into the water after us

I did not see Captain Nemo for some days after the man's death

The same thing happened after the death of one of his men

Wait for two minutes, then come up after me

She jumped up and ran after the animal

She could see the White Rabbit and she ran after him again

'Alice! Alice!' she said after some minutes

But she couldn't stop the big tears and after a time there was water everywhere.

She ran fast and after a short time, she came to a pretty little house

But after a very short time she was too big for the room

He ran after her but Alice ran too fast for him

Two men ran after him

My daddy died just after I was born

A day or two later, after school in the afternoon, he and his friends came up to me and started pushing and hitting me

Then they ran after me across the football field

The others started running after me, and I ran as fast as I could

And after that, everybody liked me.

People were really kind to me after that!

Then Curtis ran after me, and called me all kinds of terrible names.

We didn't talk, but after about an hour, I asked, 'Can I try it?' and he said 'OK', and gave me the harmonica

Well, after that, Jenny asked me to play with their group every Friday, and paid me $25 every time!

Suddenly it was 28 to 14! And after I caught it four or five more times, it was 28 to 21

Then the other team got two men to run after me

I put everything in it, and after about an hour you could smell the cooking

Then everything went quiet again, and after a minute or two the rest of us climbed up out of the hole.

The people ran after me - all two thousand of them! - but they couldn't catch me

Well, after that we went back to the hotel.

The President asked me a lot of questions about Vietnam and the army, but I just said, 'Yes, it's OK' or shook my head to say no, and after several minutes of this we were both silent.

Soon after that, I heard that I was leaving the army early, and they gave me some money for a train ticket to go home.

I could hear the music that was playing inside and, after a minute or two, I began playing with it

'They threw me out after they found a boy in my room one night

It went well, and I played with them every night after that.

I went to live with Moses, one of the other men in the group, and soon after that Jenny went to Washington to talk and work against the war

She came across to the bar after work, and we had a drink and talked.

I bet on myself winning a fight, after Mike told me to lose it.

He didn't look up but, after a minute, he said, 'Perhaps you're right.'

'Just who are you?' he said after the game.

Two days later, Sue and I got the bus to Bayou La Batre, where Bubba's parents lived, and I explained to Bubba's daddy about the shrimp business that Bubba and I planned to start after we came out of the army

And after a year, Mom was working for me, and Mr Tribble, and Curtis (my old football friend), and Bubba's daddy.

So after I finished my cup of coffee, I took out my harmonica and began to play

Well, after that, I did a few things

Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

I say to my countrymen so long as you have a sense of honour and so long as you wish to remain the descendants and defenders of the noble traditions that have been handed to you for generations after generations; it is unconstitutional for you not to non-cooperate and unconstitutional for you to cooperate with a Government which has become so unjust as our Government has become.

Polly Nichols died just a few days after her forty-third birthday

The man with the pipe ran after him

Immediately after the discovery of the murder the streets were full of policemen

The police were already everywhere in the area after Liz Stride's murder

But the discovery of the apron shows that the killer was out in the streets at some time between 2.20 and 2.55 36 to 71 minutes after Watkins discovered the body

In fact, Joe Barnett walked out after a quarrel on October 30th

She went soon after Barnett's arrival, leaving some clothing, which included a man's overcoat, some shirts, a petticoat, and a bonnet.

Just after midnight Mrs Cox went out

The police believed that Druitt went mad after the murder of Mary Kelly and committed suicide

He gave a detailed statement on the evening of November 12th, after the inquest on Mary Kelly

Was it because Mrs Lewis's testimony appeared in the newspapers only after the inquest? When he read the report, he realised that she had seen him opposite Miller's Court

Calm began to return only after a few weeks.

At that time he was looking after his sister, whose husband had died, and her seven children

She took Mme Thenardiers hand and said, 'Will you look after my daughter for me?'

'Then we agree to look after her for you,' he said.

Fantine earned less and less money from her sewing, and the Thenardiers demanded more and more money to look after Cosette

'But after this conversation, you must dismiss me.'

He sat by her bed for an hour and then, having told the nurses to look after her, he returned to his home

'It will destroy her if she doesn't see her child now, after you promised to bring her.'

Two days after his arrest, Jean Valjean escaped from prison

But the bucket was so heavy that, after a dozen steps, she had to stop for a rest

He sat down and Cosette, after serving him some wine, returned to her place under the table

'That nasty little girl, who isn't even my own daughter, who I feed and look after out of the kindness of my heart, has been playing with my daughters' doll.'

We have our own daughters to look after

I can't afford to look after other people's children, too.'

'What would you say,' the old man said after a moment's thought, 'if I offered to take the child from you?'

On the night after the Battle of Waterloo, in June 1815, a robber moved quietly around the battlefield, stealing money and jewellery from the bodies of dead soldiers

But if you give the boy to me, and promise never to see him again, I'll look after him.'

Gillenormand always told him that his father had been no good - that he was a poor soldier and a drunk who had abandoned him after his mother's death

Whatever it was, Marius sensed that, after that moment, his life would never be the same.

He gazed after her until she had disappeared from sight, then rose to his feet and walked around, laughing and talking to himself

One evening, having followed them to the house and watched them enter, he went in after them and spoke to the concierge

He stood for a moment staring after them as they disappeared round a corner

Realizing that one of the girls must have dropped it, he picked it up and called after them, but it was too late

Now, after his conversation with the girl from the next room, he understood what real poverty was

Leblanc and 'Ursula' out of the door and, after a few minutes' indecision, Marius jumped down from the cupboard and ran out into the street

'Tomorrow you'll have fur boots!' her father called out after her.

Leblanc asked Jondrette about his circumstances, and Jondrette smiled sadly as he invented lie after lie

Marius still said nothing, and after a moments pause she said, 'You don't seem very glad to see me, but I could make you look happy if I wanted to!'

'Wait until the day after tomorrow

I'll ask no more questions, but you must promise to be here early the day after tomorrow

This would be his last brief happiness; after that, there would be only darkness.

'You must kiss me on the forehead after I'm dead..

Then Valjean frowned and, after a quick calculation, decided that Marius was probably still alive

He had been looking after wounded men while bullets flew all around him

'Marius, my child, grandson! You're alive after all!'

Finally, after three months, the doctor announced that Marius was out of danger

You've called me "grandfather"; you've shown me that you love me after all

Gillenormand after the wedding.

The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers

And I remember that after I eat, I wait for her in the car park until she finishes work, and she is surprised to see me there

"Oh, but can I trust you three to look after Eleanor? This is her first night, and her first cruise

"Oh, I think I can look after myself," responds Eleanor, and again Carolina thinks what a sweet, lovely thing she is

But after a few minutes he realises how tired he is, and he thinks that maybe he can close his eyes for a moment and even rest his head against the grille.

And I promise, Father, after this I will never commit another crime again

Maybe it is time for the first drink of the day after all, and he takes the small flask from the pocket of his denim jacket, removes the lid and swallows.

Because after hours of struggling his foot is now finally free to move.

And Owen now notices that the boy actually looks a little bit like him after all and that he also smiles sometimes

She is, after all, a teacher.

It was crazy the way it did that, even after a whole year together.

Then, after her final spoonful, Sala reached for her bag.

They connect your body to them and look after it for you - your food, your muscles, everything

Maybe this Pod Life thing wouldn't be so bad, after all

At last, she knew she couldn't put off her decision any longer, and when she'd finished her studies on the day after the pod experience, she invited Cham to her apartment.

She rushed after the woman and caught her arm, holding it tightly.

Wow! Imagine that: thinking your brother might be alive after all that time."

We're all going to fly over the force field and live happily ever after in a forest where the trees grow gold-covered fruit."

"Not after the Oil Wars

"You take after me," she said

he said he might want to stay in the pod, after the two years," she said

But after the conversation where he'd talked about reporting things, Sala felt unsure of him, all the same.

We learn a lot about how the government looks after us

My job was to talk to them, light their cigarettes and tidy the room after they had gone.

I was very rude after lunch.' The note was not signed, but I knew it was from de Winter.

You'll need a nurse to look after you

'I'm sure I could look after Mrs Van Hopper,' I said

It's very kind of you to lunch with me after my rudeness.'

When my father had died very suddenly, my mother had lived only a few weeks after him.

I felt like a child going home after a party

'Why do you ask me to come out in your car, day after day?' I said

I could look forward to tomorrow morning and the morning after

How could he love me, after her? I would be a companion for him

You won't find it easy to look after Manderley

Mrs Danvers looks after the house

I have been looking after the house for the past year

She liked to look after everything herself.'

I had slept well and came downstairs a little after nine o'clock

'Looking after Manderley takes a lot of my time

'Mrs de Winter always wrote her letters in the morning-room after breakfast

'What did she talk to you about after lunch?'

He bent down and threw a stick for Jasper to run after.

Jasper ran after the stone, barking with excitement.

There was no need for you to go after Jasper.'

'Why should I run after the damned dog?' Maxim said, not looking at me.

'She looked after everything in the house, too,' I said

I sat in the library after my visitor had gone

The following day, after lunch, Frith brought our coffee to the library as usual

Maxim had arrived safely in London after a good journey

And I climbed over the rocks after Jasper.

'I sat on my bed until after five

Look after him, and look after yourself, too.'

Maxim and I went back to the house after lunch

'The Ball is for you, after all

The night passed, hour after hour

When I woke up again, it was after eleven

It had failed after only three months

'He went out soon after breakfast, Madam

'I looked after her when she was a child

Something I've dreamt about, night after night

'I found out the truth five days after we were married

I went after them

All the papers said that Rebecca's body had been found after the Fancy Dress Ball

'I won't come in with you after all.'

Who looked after Mrs de Winter's boat?'

'She looked after it herself.'

It was after six when I heard the sound of Maxim's car

Do you really think Rebecca killed herself after writing that note?'

'There must have been something wrong with her after all.'

'We'll meet at the crossroads just after nine,' Favell said

Bud runs after him.

Soon after, Natalie and Nathan are jumping from Natalie's car

'Let's go!' says Natalie, and she runs after The Cat.

Nathan runs after her

Maybe Danny hadn't been killed in the accident, after all

After the initial shock, after the funeral, she had begun to cope with the trauma

But then, a few weeks ago, she had begun to slip back into the dreadful condition in which she'd wallowed immediately after she'd received news of the accident

Each time, for a few hours after she woke, she could not face reality

Danny's cries and her response became increasingly shrill and desperate, for they knew that they must reach each other before nightfall or be lost forever; in the oncoming night, something waited for Danny, something fearsome that would seize him if he was alone after dark

The Lido was one of those incredibly lavish productions that could be seen nowhere in the world but Vegas, for it was only in Las Vegas that a multimillion-dollar show could be staged year after year with little concern for profit; such vast sums were spent on the elaborate sets and costumes, and on the enormous cast and crew, that the hotel was usually happy if the production merely broke even from ticket and drink sales

When Danny was six months old, Tina went into training to get back in shape, and after three arduous months of exercise, she won a place in the chorus line of a new Vegas spectacle

Almost a year ago, shortly after Danny had died, Tina had been offered a directing and co-producing job on a huge ten-million-dollar extravaganza to be staged in the two-thousand-seat main showroom of the Golden Pyramid, one of the largest and plushest hotels on the Strip

Then the new dreams began, and they were far worse than the dream that she'd had immediately after Danny had been killed.

If audience reaction was as strong and as positive as Tina hoped, her financial future was assured, for her contract gave her two and one-half percent of the gross receipts, minus liquor sales, after the first five million

Not long after his tenth birthday, the boy had asked for more space and privacy than was provided by his original, tiny quarters

Six months later she and Michael separated, and less than five months after the separation, they were divorced.

Danny, of course, had been writing about something else, and the dark interpretation that could be drawn from those two words now, after his death, was just a macabre coincidence.

Directly overhead, the ceiling of the immense porte cochere was lined with hundreds of lights; none of the bulbs were burning now, but after nightfall, they would rain dazzling, golden luminosity upon the glossy cobblestones below

Last night, after drinking the bourbon, had she come back here in some kind of fugue and...?

She hadn't changed the locks after the divorce.

Shattered by the loss of his son, Michael had been irrationally vicious with Tina for months after the funeral, accusing her of being responsible for Danny's death

However, his features were large, square, and utterly without evidence of patrician blood, and even after the mellowing influences of elocution teachers, his naturally low, gravelly voice belied his origins in a rough Brooklyn neighborhood.

With that attitude plus a few money-management skills, they were able to hang on longer than most slot players who plunged at the dollar machines after getting nowhere with quarters, and because of their patience and perseverance, the duchesses won more jackpots than did the tide of tourists that ebbed and flowed around them

Even these days, when most machines could be played with electronically validated value cards, the nickel duchesses wore black gloves to keep their hands from becoming filthy after hours of handling coins and pulling levers; they always sat on stools while they played, and they remembered to alternate hands when operating the machines in order not to strain the muscles of one arm, and they carried bottles of liniment just in case.

The radio's digital display began to change, the orange numbers escalating across the frequency band, sweeping through one station after another

The final curtain came down at eight minutes till ten o'clock, and the ovation continued until after Tina's wristwatch had marked the hour

The voice faded after a minute, but the bed began to bang up and down.

Later, after no more than two dreamless hours, she suffered another nightmare about Danny

He would be sleeping, but she wouldn't feel guilty if she woke him, not after all the sleepless nights that he had given her

Clearly, the intruder had come in after Mrs

On the left, slot machines ran the entire length of the casino, bank after nerve-jangling bank of them, brightly and colorfully lighted, attended by gamblers who were more vocal than the card players but not as loud as the craps shooters

But now, if she started making nasty accusations after he'd been so pleasant to her, she would seem to be a hysterical harpy, and if she still had any advantage left, she would quickly lose it.

I'm sure there's a lot of work to do on a show like Magyck! Even after, it opens

Later, after Danny was dead, she'd repressed her feelings because she'd known that Michael had been truly suffering from the loss of his child, and she hadn't wanted to add to his misery

She found it after another twenty-six names.

But how could any stranger so easily gain entrance to both her house and the hotel computer? Didn't he, after all, have to be someone she knew?

Tina kept a well-stocked bar in one corner of her office for those infrequent occasions when a business associate needed a drink after a long work session

A couple weeks after the little girl was buried, the mother started feeling guilty about not paying her last respects."

"And we reopened the grave only two months after the funeral, not a whole year later

They turned out the lights and left the room, closing the door after them.

She was gone two months after they diagnosed it."

Maybe it will after four years

He walked her to her Honda in the driveway and leaned in the window after she was behind the wheel, delaying her for another fifteen minutes while he planned, to her satisfaction, every dish of this evening's dinner.

He'd been trying to postpone her departure because he was afraid that he would never see her again after she drove off.

I'll call you this evening, after I've had a chance to think about it."

"If I do submit to the drug, what happens to me after you've got your answers?" Elliot asked.

But after she had made up her mind to let him read such stuff, she never thereafter even glanced at his purchases.

Elliot went after him but was slowed by the dining-room chairs, which the fleeing man had overturned in his wake

She had given it to him two nights ago, at the party after the premiere of Magyck! She didn't live far from him

Kevin's parents went away from the city immediately after the funeral, intending to spend a month at their summerhouse in the country, where they could be free from the press of business and social duties, the better to mourn their lost child

It had been published only two years ago, long after she had decided that horror comics were harmless.

Her dream had been patterned after the images in the illustrated horror story

They both said "Have a nice day," and she locked the door after he left.

Obviously, it pleased Tom to think that people who could afford a Mercedes were not so smart after all

"Remember maybe ten years ago when that Texas elections official revealed how Lyndon Johnson's first local election was fixed? The guy said he was just trying to clear his conscience after all those years

And now, just when I'm beginning to think I can face up to it and put it behind me, I discover he might not have died accidentally after all

He was aware of her watching him, and after a while she said, "You know what?"

Even after all this time, when she thought about Danny's last moments on earth - the terror he must have known, the excruciating pain he must have endured, even if it was of brief duration - she began to choke with sorrow and pity

I think it would be wise for us to stay up there for a couple of days, even after we've talked to Bellicosti, until we can figure a way out of this mess

The hotel doctor would call it a heart attack after he had examined the body

You couldn't have known what would happen after I talked to Kennebeck."

We have to go after these two with more care than usual

He helped Tina over the cemetery wall, and then, clambering after her, he was sure that someone grabbed his coat from behind

"I'll fade back into the shrubbery and wait for them to come around the corner after us

When Elliot was informed that a room was available, after all, for two nights, he signed the registration card as "Hank Thomas," a slight twist on the name of one of his favorite movie stars; he entered a phony Seattle address too

Like an old athlete back on the playing field after a long absence, testing his reflexes, taking pride in the fact that his old skills are still there."

He could only manage to get on a plane after he had medicated himself

As usual, he nodded off minutes after the aircraft lifted from the runway.

"Maybe we'll get Danny out of there after all."

It was little more than one lane wide, and the trees formed a tunnel around it, so that after fifty or sixty feet, it disappeared into premature night

It appeared after his first series of shots six weeks ago

Danny's instructions are to take a turn north, off this lane, after about five miles."

"Well," Tina said, unsuccessfully trying to conceal her own anxiety, "we didn't need the snowshoes after all."

Apparently, the door could be opened only from within, after those, seeking entrance had been scrutinized by the camera that hung over the portal.

It opened onto a junction of two hallways, which Tina had discovered a few minutes ago, just after Elliot had shot the guard, when she had peeked through the door to see if reinforcements were on the way.

For one thing, you can become an infectious carrier only four hours after coming into contact with the virus

If there's an adjoining isolation chamber, you're supposed to go into it and lock the door after yourself

Bollinger was probably at the bottom gate two and a half hours after he walked out of the door here, three hours after he was infected

He started out of the forest, toward the county lane, which is about five miles from the turnoff to the labs, and after only three miles-"

"He must have reached the scouts five or five and a half hours after he was infected

"But after everything you said to Zachariah about this place being run by megalomaniacs, and after you've made it so clear you don't agree with everything that goes on here, why do you want to stay?"

She got in after him.

He was contemptuous of the book he was paid to adapt, of me, and of the entire TV industry, to which he would never return (he assured me with a glower) after his first smash-hit film

Eventually, after a bad first draft, he was taken off the project when he missed several extensions of his contractual deadline

Ultimately, after months of interminable meetings, two of the scripts we developed were deemed filmable

The second was my script of another book which, in a fit of frustration at this entire process, I wrote in three days after the assigned writer's final - and umpteenth - draft was deemed inadequate

I long ago wore out the three pairs of shoes that I was able to buy with my after-expenses and after-tax income from the project which, had it come to fruition, might have been titled I Think There's a Rat Chewing My Foot in Dean Koontz's Theater

My brother, your father, will have all my money and my house after my death, and you will have it all when he dies

He was badly hurt, and he died soon after

She rarely answered questions and spent a lot of her time sewing, hut her favourite activity seemed to be catching flies, which she always released unharmed after examining them carefully.

The day after this, Commissaire Charas came to see me.

When the servant brought my supper, I poured myself a glass of wine, and locked the door after her

'Are you saying that you have disintegrated that ashtray, then put it together again after pushing it through something?' I said.

I only saw him the next morning, tired after a whole night's work.

It was only after the accident that I discovered he had put a second set of the control switches inside the disintegration booth, so that he could use himself as the object of the experiment.

He shut the door after me, and I heard him pouring out coffee as I read:

I took the food down to the laboratory and, after he let me in, put it on his desk

'I want to know exactly what happened,' I said as he closed the door after me

I hope there is no life after death because, if there is, I shall never forget the horror! Day and night, awake or asleep, I see it, and I know that I will see it forever.

'Yes, soon after you telephoned me this morning,' he said

'I would like to show you a very strange document after dinner, Charas,' I said.

However, I was not surprised when after dinner he suggested we went to my study.

'Will you look after Anne?'

Just after she left, Dennis returned from a tennis party

She had seen Anne Protheroe just after the Inspector had told her the news.

But after the sad news...' It was Miss Marple

'What happened after lunch?'

Immediately after they had left, Mr Clement rang up and I told him that they had gone out.'

'It must have been after six - quarter past - something like that.'

I hurried down the stairs after Melchett

At just after a quarter past six

Just after speaking to you.'

'Miss Marple saw him and Mrs Protheroe leave the studio just after six-thirty

There is Lettice Protheroe, I suppose, because she probably gets money after her father's death

Well, after the vicar saw us there, I promised him that I would leave the village

I thought that after we parted in the village, she must have come back here and - so I put the pistol in my pocket and left

We left him looking after us with a hurt expression.

'Ah! I am glad you are taking action after what happened

'Well, this person began by saying, "You are a very unpleasant old woman who tells lies!" Me, Colonel Melchett! "And now the police are after you."'

But it's a strange illness - the whole character may change after it.'

That was just after two o'clock

'Inspector Slack asked me whether I heard the shot after Mr Redding and Mrs Protheroe had left the studio or before

I believe that it was after.'

'Can you think why Mrs Lestrange visited Protheroe after dinner on Wednesday night?'

We turned and walked this way, but after a short distance, there were no more broken bushes

She heard the church clock just after she had shown him into the study

'I forgot to tell you, Len, Miss Marple has invited us over tonight after dinner, to entertain the nephew

The day after the murder, I had found broken bushes beside the path

'They came by hand after lunch,' she said 'All except one

They left at just after nine o'clock, and at half-past nine exactly, there was a little knock on my study window, and I opened the glass door for Miss Marple to come in.

He wouldn't have needed to tell you that he couldn't wait any longer until after half-past six

'You mean that after he had been shown in, he went out again and came back later?'

I suppose it is Mary who looks after it?'

'I'm not sure that "looks after" are the right words for anything that Mary does,' I said

Lettice came to see me just after they were arrested

I have also decided that since now I'm going to be a real "wife and mother" I must look after the house as well

That night, too, there was another sudden cloud of gas from the distant planet as a second missile started on its way to Earth from Mars, just under twenty-four hours after the first one

Hundreds of observers saw the flame that night and the following night, at about midnight, and again the night after that

No one on Earth has attempted to explain why the shots ended after this

This he did, soon after dawn

Suddenly, there was a flash of light and bright greenish smoke came out of the pit in three separate clouds, which moved up, one after the other, into the still air.

I stood staring, watching as man after man fell over

A few seconds after midnight the crowd in the Chertsey Road, Woking, saw a star fall from the sky into the woods to the north-west

At about six in the evening, as I had tea with my wife in the garden, I heard an explosion from the common, and immediately after that the sound of gunfire

I shouted after him, 'What news?'

Just after this came the first lightning of the storm, and the thunder burst like a gun overhead

He saw this one go after a man, catch him in one of its steel arms and knock his head against a tree

Quickly, one after the other, one, two, three, four of the Martian machines appeared, far away over the low trees towards Chertsey

Soon after that the police arrived and began to move the crowd out of the station, and my brother went out into the street again.

The sound of guns continued from time to time and after midnight there seemed to be lightning in the south.

He was restless, and after supper went out again

He went to bed a little after midnight and was woken in the early hours of Monday morning by the sound of knocking on doors, feet running in the street, distant drumming and the ringing of bells

There was a noise of doors opening, and the lights went on in window after window in the houses across the street.

For a long time my brother stared out of the window in total surprise, watching the policeman banging at door after door

Then, realizing that he was alone, he ran along the road after the cart, with the big man behind him

My brother learned that the two women were the wife and younger sister of a doctor living in Stanmore, The doctor had heard about the Martians at the railway station, on his way home from seeing a patient, and had sent them off, promising to follow after telling the neighbour

It was very difficult to get her down to the beach, where after some time my brother caught the attention of some men from a steamboat

The guns of the Thunder Child were heard going off one after another, and one shot hit the water close by the steamboat.

I left the curate in the hut, but he came hurrying after me.

For hours we lay there in the darkness, while from outside came the sounds of hammering and then, after some time, a sound like an engine

The curate, who had been lying silently with his arms over his head, looked up as I passed, cried out quite loudly and came running after me.

I went after him, picking up the coal-hammer as I entered the room

In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon many things had been left behind by the crowds that ran towards London on the Sunday night after the fighting began

And after they went away, I went towards Walton across the fields

There was black dust on the road after the bridge, and it grew thicker in Fulham

I was tired after eating and went into the room behind the bar and slept on a black leather sofa that I found there.

I awoke to find that sad howling still in my ears: 'Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla,' It was now getting dark, and after I had found some bread and cheese in the bar I walked on through the silent squares to Baker Street and so came at last to Regents Park

I hid from the night and the silence until long after midnight, in a garden hut in Harrow Road

And all around it, some in their overturned war-machines and some in building-machines, and ten of them lying in a row, were the Martians - dead! They had been killed by germs against which their systems could not fight; killed, after all man's machines had failed, by the smallest things that God has put on this Earth.

Two days after I was imprisoned it had been destroyed, with every person in it, by a Martian

I stayed with them for four days after my recovery

Certainly, in all the bodies of the Martians that were examined after the war, no germs were found except ones that came from Earth

She met me after six months in England

'No, there was a great fire in Atlanta after her husband's death, and all her papers were destroyed.'

'Yes, she got a duplicate after the fire.'

Unfortunately, our only child took after his people rather than mine

Those blows were good for me, because after each blow I went to do my work

If I see a rat, you won't stop the boat so I can run after it

Montmorency ran after the cat

'Well, sir, I don't think you look very healthy, after drinking all that river water

We played cards after supper

'However, there's a train that leaves Pangbourne after five o'clock

Look at all these people who are running after you,' said Connie.

On top of everything, I have dependable information that James is running after a new girl.'

He may be able to speak to someone in your government office so that after the baby is born you can keep your job there.'

That evening, after dinner, Miss Fairlie went outside to walk in the garden

They learn to love them (if they don't learn to hate them!) after they're married

Miss Fairlie seemed to be uncomfortable in his company and left us soon after dinner

The man was too lazy to look after the interests of his own niece! I went to Limmeridge the next day and told him that no one should sign a marriage settlement like this - it gave the husband a large financial interest in the death of his wife! But Mr Fairlie did not want to listen

At first, just after we were married, I tried not to think of Walter

How I hated him! He forced me to stay here in this village, where they all talked about me but no one spoke to me! Finally, now, after all these years, I have earned their respect

Immense necessity! Universal want! We discovered this common problem when we met in Europe after Percival's marriage

On 1st December 1955, after a long day's work at the shop, Rosa Parks got on the bus to go home

He wrote some laws in 1870 and 1882 that allowed women to keep their money or houses after they married

In 1918, women over thirty got the vote after many years of fighting

They were not happy just cooking and looking after the children

Ten years after her book was published, more than half of the workers in the West were women

After studying English Literature at the University of Cambridge, Laura looked after other people's children

She learned that the young girls she looked after were already worried about how their bodies looked

She set up the Everyday Sexism Project website in 2012 after finding it difficult to speak out about sexism

They did cooking and cleaning, and they looked after children.

This was because a lot of men did not come home from the war, so women had to work to look after their families.

Polonium was named after her country, Poland

This was 100 years after some women first got the vote and almost a hundred years after Nancy Astor entered Parliament.

People called her "the flying housewife", which is a word for a woman who stays at home to look after her husband and children

Other people said she had to look after her husband and her children! But Fanny started the 1948 Games by winning two races - one of them was the 100 metres

The goals are there to stop people from being poor, to look after the Earth and to stop war

On 20th January 2016, after many months of thinking and talking, the court changed the law

They chose to speak after other women spoke out.

Don Carlos' wife and daughter look after Captain Ramon's injured shoulder